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ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award
As the global population continues to increase and natural calamities grow more severe, the pressing issue of inadequate seating in educational institutions poses a significant obstacle to s…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
People with spastic cerebral palsy sometimes develop contractures in the hands that cause the hand to close in on itself, reducing the range of motion (ROM). For children who use their hands…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Kawasaki Disease (KD) is a febrile illness predominantly affecting children under five years old and is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in developed countries. If KD…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Dysregulated metabolism is a hallmark of cancer progression yet exactly how cancer cells vary their metabolic program during tumorigenesis remains unknown. Moreover, metabolism is highly dyn…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics
The intersection of p-adic curve theory and ellipse geometry constitutes a field of geometric research. The relevance of elliptic curves is based on the proof of Fermat's last theorem. Geome…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Background Natural carbon capture is crucial to reduce carbon emissions. While plants store carbon, satellite data exhibits that underground fungal networks capture 36% of carbon emissions.…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
With the effects of climate change, deserts continue to lose their desert crust, which increases the number and intensity of sand storms and creates other detrimental effects on the environm…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
While rehabilitation gloves created by Soft Pneumatic Network Actuators (SPNAs) are cheaper, more flexible, and more resistant to water/fall damage, these SPNAs can easily tear or even explo…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Current radiotherapy treatment for abdominal and pelvic cancers typically results in some form of acute gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity in patients. X-ray irradiation to deep-seated abdominal…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Twenty-five percent of Americans follow a gluten-free diet (Reed, 2020). In the food industry it is important to create products that are both palatable and digestible for these gluten-free…
ISEF · 2024
Embedded Systems
Data processing has grown to be increasingly important in our digitized world. A key component of data and signal processing is the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), which allows for detailed an…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences
Over the years, around 20% to 40% of global crop production has been lost because of pests and bioactivity. At the same time, the weed barriers had caused the soil to be unsuitable for plant…
ISEF · 2024
Systems Software
As a society, we use the cloud to accomplish many things. Whenever we get directions from a GPS service, that software is an example of a cloud technology service. Even though the use of clo…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Pesticide destruction is a familiar term in the Midwest. Farmers and corn producers struggle to fight these root killers. The goal is to approach the problem from a different angle and find…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences
Malnutrition, a severe worldwide problem, falls into two categories: kwashiorkor, the lack of protein, and marasmus, the lack of all nutrients and calories. Nearly all cultures consume maize…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
The pace of asteroid discovery surpasses the rate at which their physical properties can be analyzed. To date, phase curves, which are crucial for asteroid characterization, have been genera…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry Third Award
Celphos, containing aluminum phosphide, is a widely used and affordable pesticide, however, according to National Institute of Health, it leads to approximately 300,000 global deaths annuall…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science Second Award
Studies on astronauts in space show that microgravity disrupts the delicate balance of processes required for wound healing, slowing it down or even stopping it completely in space. This pre…
ISEF · 2024
Materials Science
Photodynamic therapy is the combination of a light source that stimulates a photo-sensitizing agent in an oxygen-rich environment triggering the production of singlet oxygen, causing apoptos…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Photovoltaic systems are becoming increasingly important. There is a central challenge to be solved here. Due to the series connection, the weakest cell always determines the total output. T…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are emerging water contaminants of concern due to their toxicity and persistence in the environment. Zeolite nano resins (ZNR) are a promising new…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chronic autoimmune diseases threatening human health have widely spread, yet modern-day pharmaceuticals remain of animal origin and cause the body to develop drug resistance or experience ad…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
A novel method is proposed to assist biologists in selecting the most suitable plant species for phytoremediation of site-specific heavy metal contamination. Only a few plants with the capac…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
In Dona Ana County, pollutants such as arsenic and chlorine, are often found in concentrations higher than what is considered safe in drinking water and bring upon long-term health consequen…
ISEF · 2024
Technology Enhances the Arts
My project was about how brands/companies can use color psychology to market their products to consumers. I have always been in the many different ways that color psychology can be used in t…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Eutrophication affects 65% of coastal and 53% of freshwater regions in the US but no scalable cyanobacterial degradation methods exist. Piezocatalysis harnesses mechanical energy to produce…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences
The purpose of our investigation was to test allelopathic dilutions from Kentucky BlueGrass and Brohm seed on germination of common crops: wheat, barley, and oats. We hypothesized that oats…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Late-stage diagnosis in over 90% Alzheimer's Disease (AD) patients worldwide often occurs at the 5th stage, significantly reducing life expectancy to an average of 5-6 years. Current screeni…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
Plastic pollution poses a significant environmental threat, resulting in over 29 million tons of plastic waste generated every year. With the demand for plastic increasing, it becomes impera…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Precession and nutation in dynamical systems have been of long-standing research interest. Manifesting in systems as diverse as spinning tops to celestial bodies like planets, understanding…