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ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
According to the United States Bone and Joint Initiative, each year, 126.6 million Americans suffer from a musculoskeletal injury or disorder lasting over 3 months, resulting in $213 billion…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Freshwater accounts for 2.5% of the planet’s water, and the U.N.’s estimated 7.7 billion people on Earth are taxing that supply. With 3,100 cubic miles of freshwater vapor trapped in the atm…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
After researching an effective alternative for plastic straws due to the extensive amount of microplastic pollution, I became concerned with the possibility of our drinking water supply bein…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Bioprinting serves as a potential solution to many modern medical complications. From the broad range of organ shortages, to cancer research and drug testing, bioprinting proves its necessit…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
Paintable Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging field of research with wide implications for interactive, human-centric technology. Electrically Conductive Paint is a material that becomes…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
A massive drop in bearing acres is attributed to severe damage to the trees caused by freezing temperatures. A new freeze prevention method was created through incorporating a solar energy r…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
In this experiment an actual automotive bumper was tested against another vehicle bumper and the impact with and without interventions measured by a PCB Piezotronics 208C03 Force Sensor. A 2…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
One of the most dangerous components of an oil spill is the emulsion that forms between the spilled oil and the surrounding seawater. This submerged emulsion can persist for many years and i…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
The complex, dynamic tumor microenvironment consists of live tissues that directly influence the progression of a tumor, including the extracellular matrix: a mesh of water, minerals, proteo…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
Acoustic band gap materials are periodic arrangements of scattering materials that harness the properties of waves to create band gaps—areas of space where waves of specific frequencies cann…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
Compression is useful because it reduces resources required to store and transmit data. It is used to represent data in relatively smaller number of bits. Many now-a-days used general purpos…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the most produced plastic globally, composing single-use plastic bottles, shopping bags, and more. Consequently, the environment suffers from its producti…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Our planet’s temperature is continuing to rise dangerously due to greenhouse gas emissions from the excessive use of fossil fuels. This is contributing to global warming and forest decline w…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Nowadays, fossil fuel remains the main source of energy, which yields high CO2 emissions thereby contributing to global warming. Recently, ammonia fuel has shown potential as an alternative…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
The purpose of this project was to create a better transfection rate and produce better efficiency and yield so more cells can be studied through the transfection. Six 2mm dishes were treate…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Global population growth has dramatically increased in the last century. Recent studies state that food production must be doubled to meet the global demand. Nanomaterials (NMs) are used in…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
This study aims to prove, using theoretical and experimental methods, that target wireless power transfer (WPT) efficiency can be ensured by utilizing the coupling coefficient among various…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Common chloride-based road salts pollute the environment, including vegetation and infrastructure; an eco-friendly compound able to melt ice is critical. I tested thirteen different substanc…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Bioethanol production currently utilizes sugars derived from food crops, which causes challenges in the fight against world hunger. Alternative sources of sugars must be investigated. A pote…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project was trying to start to advocate that Abandoned Uranium Mines on the Navajo Nation needs to be taken seriously and mentioned to the residents living on the Navajo…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The investigation aimed to determine how introducing micro-plastics into the habitat of brine shrimp affected their life processes. The hypothesis was that the brine shrimp would confuse mic…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Gram-negative bacteria are associated with hospital-acquired infections. The infection control literature has identified that hospital sink drains can be a potential source of these hospital…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Tar Creek superfund site is an abandoned lead mine in northeastern Oklahoma that was declared in 1983 and is located in the cities of Picher and Cardin. From 1900 to the 1960’s, lead min…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this project was to see what specific influence exosomes have on MDA-MB-231 triple negative breast cancer cell characteristics of proliferation, migration and invasion. Exosom…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The Yes-associated protein (YAP) is a transcriptional regulator that has been linked to various cellular processes such as tissue regeneration and metabolism. Typically, the Hippo pathway re…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
The chemotherapeutic, hydroxyurea (HU), is an antimetabolite drug generally used to treat chronic myelocytic leukemia as well as HIV and sickle cell anemia. Although initial hydroxyurea ther…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Three years of preliminary research suggested that Southwestern Native medicines may possess antibacterial properties against Streptococcus pyogenes ATCC 19615 (S. pyogenes), the bacteria re…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Breast cancer is characterized by an aggressive, malignant tumor that can metastasize to distant places of the body. Research stems from treatment with palbociclib, an innovative drug, again…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this project was to build an exoskeleton (MK-I, MK-II) that can augment human strength whilst lifting heavy/large objects for an extended amount of time. Design goals for the…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
Excessive glutamate release in the brain leads to neuronal death in severe neurological diseases of ischemic stroke, while glutamate levels in cerebrospinal fluid are more favorable for refl…