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ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
The practice of redlining, which gave rise to the racial segregation of American cities, has significantly contributed to the structural, institutional, and systemic racism apparent in today…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software Fourth Award
The purpose of my project is to provide a cost-effective, portable, and accurate solution to diagnosing glaucoma. Glaucoma is a major health issue in less developed countries (LDCs), where t…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Lung cancer is the second most diagnosed form of cancer in both women and men and is the leading cause of cancer death as it accounts for 1 in 4 cancer deaths. Radiologists have to examine a…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is one of the most common types of cancer in children. This study investigates a natural product that can be used as a possible agent for the treatment of…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry
Amylase and protease are digestive enzymes, or molecules, that speed up chemical reactions. Without enzymes, reactions essential to life would take years to occur. This project's objective i…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology Fourth Award
Bats, like bees, are a keystone species benefiting the environment and saving farmers billions of dollars in chemicals. However, since 2006, millions of bats in North America have died of a…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
More than 70 countries approve the consumption of artificial sweeteners (Ogungbemi et al., 2019). People, including pregnant women, regularly consume artificial sweeteners to substitute suga…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Alzheimers, a degenerative brain disorder, affected 6.1 million Americans in 2021. This debilitating disease is affecting more individuals each year. It disrupts an individual's cognitive ab…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics
Graph theory is the study of relationships between objects. Whether those objects are city blocks or web pages, graph theory can provide significant insight into optimization. A specific are…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Infectious diseases have affected people for years. As the population and demand for resources grow, hospitals or clinics may reach their maximum capacity and must arbitrarily decide who des…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Our project title is Determining which Acne Medications Prevent the Growth of Staphyloccocus Epidermis Most Successfully. It was created by Solunne Fedovskiy, Lily Reilly, and Avi Crosby. We…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignancies of the digestive system. It has the third highest incidence of cancer in the world. Thus, it is important to process detection and tr…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Wildfires have caused significant economic losses and human health damages in California. To minimize the losses and damages, it is imperative to understand the key drivers of wildfires and…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences Second Award
Martian agriculture may be the most cost-effective means to develop a sustainable human life support system on Mars by employing in-situ resource utilization to convert atmospheric CO2 into…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology Second Award
Early blight, a fungal disease, leads to annual crop losses of up to 70-78% in tomato, potato, and bell pepper crops. Current treatment requires repeated application of chemical fungicides,…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the sixth leading cause of death in the world, and has no method for prevention or effective treatment. A promising method of predicting it is through analyzing t…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Since their invention decades ago, single-use plastics have shaped the way people live. However, in recent years, light has been shed on the dangers they pose to marine ecosystems due to rel…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Beach pollution is an ever-growing global challenge that negatively impacts coastal ecosystems. Current solutions either involve having humans pick up pollutants (inefficient) or using beach…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is aggressive cancer with a poor prognosis. Most patients with AML ultimately relapse and succumb to cancer progression after receiving standard treatme…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
More than 70,000 diabetic patients have amputations annually due to wound care complications. Poor circulation and hyperglycemia-related nerve damage, which are complications of diabetes, pr…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), lipid bilayer-surrounded spheres of cytosol, hold a crucial role in exchanging cellular information. They transport numerous proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Hydrogels have received significant attention over the past 30 years due to their potential applications in tissue engineering and drug delivery; however, they still have limitations: poor m…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Is it possible to develop and build a six-axis robot arm as a high school student and just with knowledge acquired from the internet? This paper covers my research on a low-cost robot arm th…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Inspired by the high mobility and flexibility of dolphins, this project sought to learn from and mimic the dolphin’s movements to create a bionic dolphin robot and to find out the impact of…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Current orthopedic implants are restricted in the level of patient specificity and biological interaction they can achieve. The demand for more effective and less intrusive reconstructive or…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Congestive heart failure (CHF) affects millions of patients and is associated with a high mortality rate. Early detection and treatment can improve outcomes and avoid hospitalization, but it…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The size and complexity of e-waste is increasing at a much faster rate than the efficiency of our strategies to contain it. Lake Chivero is heavily polluted with metal ions and is the main s…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Molecular-based electronic devices show promising applications in future new generation technology. Magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) demonstrates the interaction of light with magnetic mat…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Self-powered units, especially energy storage devices with self-charging ability, are considered sustainable power sources for future electronic devices. In this research, a novel supercapac…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) have come to be considered as genetic biomarkers for different types of cancers. Certain VOCs are linked with multiple types, while others are linked with t…