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ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Purpose: During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a fear of a global ventilator shortage for treating patients. This prompted the development of low-cost ventilator designs worldwide. SimplyV…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Approximately 80% of the gravitating matter in the universe has been determined to be "dark" (or non-baryonic) matter. Dark matter’s gravitational interactions with baryonic (luminous) matte…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
CARM1 is a methyltransferase that methylates the BAF155 in the SWI/SNF protein complex, leading to cell proliferation and migration via the c-MYC pathway. SKI-73. EZM 2302, and TP-064 are th…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems
Around the world there has been a vast decline in the population of honeybees, the greatest pollinizer; climate change, and parasites are playing a part in the fall (Vercelli, 2021). Along t…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Astigmatism is a cylindrical refractive vision defect that affects 30% of the world population. Current subjective optometry of astigmatism is complicated, has low accuracy, and is dependent…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
Many synthetic whitening products brought side effects while achieving whitening effect. In this work, we performed toxicity and whitening screening using cells and zebrafish embryos, and al…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Airborne Wind Energy systems (AWEs) are an innovative variant of wind energy technology that harness the power of high-altitude winds. However, conventional AWEs face limitations due to teth…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Access to soil analysis is limited in developing countries due to lack of equipment, expertise, and infrastructure. On-the-go soil sensors have emerged as a cost-effective solution to soil t…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Our project brings out a a safer, invulnerable, modern system that prevents water from freezing when temperature decreases and can later on be safely consumed by the human body. As to how we…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
This project aims to demonstrate the potential to predict soil temperature through a machine-learning approach, within a South African domestic garden environment. The vision of the project…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Long-term medication management for chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease requires medication adherence. However, research shows that only 50% of patients with chro…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Today, many countries are experiencing fires, environmental and natural disasters. As a result, firefighters and rescuers are used. But often they themselves become victims of such natural p…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Every year millions of saplings were sold in India by the nurseries. Although the saplings contribute to environmental conservation, the black plastic bags in which these saplings grow cause…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
Liposome is a spherical lipid-based nanoparticle comprised of a phospholipid bilayer and an inner aqueous core. Liposomes create an environment ideal for encapsulating cytostatics, which bri…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Every year in the US, millions of roadkill accidents occur making wildlife vehicle collisions (WVCs) a significant danger to both animals and humans. In addition, road networks become abioti…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this project, due to the fact that cultivation in a cultivator consumed a lot of energy, it was proposed that natural growth in the form of moor renaturation would be more efficient. Conv…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Due to the shortage of electricity in Zimbabwe, many people are now using solar panels as an alternative. The shortage is still there since fixed solar panels generate less energy because th…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to determine which color of solar powered water purification device would purify water at the fastest rate. The hypothesis was if the bottom of a water pur…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Computed tomography (CT) is a three-dimensional imaging modality that uses X- ray beams to produce cross-sectional information of an object or a patient. CT suffers from multiple inherent li…
ISEF · 2023
Chemistry Fourth Award
Brown planthopper (BPH, Nilaparvata lugens), the most destructive pest of rice (Oryza sativa L.) causes ‘hopperburn’, inducing 100 million USD crop losses annually. Synthetic insecticides ag…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a disorder that affects brain development and can cause problems with social interaction and communication, is thought to be caused by both genetic and non-ge…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Worldwide 1 in 8 people live with a mental illness (WHO, 2022). Music releases neurotransmitters, including dopamine, but without the side effects of medications (Schriewer, Bulaj, 2016). Th…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals suffer disproportionately from vaccine preventable diseases. This is due, at least in part, to a lack of accessible screening tools for such illne…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Glioblastoma multiforme is an aggressive brain tumor with the lowest survival rate of any human cancer due to its invasive growth dynamics. These dynamics result in recurrent tumor pockets h…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems Second Award
The mute and deaf community relies on sign language for communication, unfortunately, the vast majority of the healthy population cannot understand sign language, which creates a communicati…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology
The purpose of this experiment is to do an environmental swab for bacteria on different surfaces of sports equipment. 18 different types of sports equipment were sampled. It was hypothesized…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
In this engineering project, two flexible grasping machines (Spring and Sunflower) made of rigid materials are developed based on two different origami structures. They provide flexibility a…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Modern Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are potent catalysts for scientific-industrial impact. To maximize performance and hypothesis space, however, DNNs involve excessive parameters – impeding…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The role of deep learning in the recognition of morphological structures in histopathological data is heavily stunted by extreme variations that may exist in the datasets that these deep lea…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Purpose: My project was on the light reflectivity of geometric shapes. The hypothesis was if a light wave strikes an object, the reflectivity is determined by the shape and the color of the…