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ISEF · 2015
Delicate manipulation of nanocrystal morphology and surface structure is crucial in order to synthesize particles with specific electrochemical properties. In this study, cuprous oxide (Cu2O…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Nowadays, systems for hand gesture recognition become more and more required due to the replacement of 2D systems and the way of interacting with them by the new 3D and holographic technolog…
ISEF · 2015
For thousands of years, the rise and fall of civilizations were built on the ability of soils to grow crops and sustain populations. Fertile soils created dynasties and changed structures of…
ISEF · 2015
My project was designed to create a low-cost, easily manufactured, water durable, natural gait prosthetic foot. Some prosthetic feet cost $14,000 USD, and it’s too expensive for amputees in…
ISEF · 2015
At present we know more about our moon than our ocean. This is largely due to the inability of humans to stay underwater for long periods of time. Submarines use electrolysis to help maintai…
ISEF · 2015
Purpose - To investigate how the ratio for methanol and potassium hydroxide affects the amount of biodiesel, amount of glycerin, and quality of biodiesel when converted from vegetable oil. P…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States. In this project, gold and silver nanoparticles were tested for skin cancer chemoprevention and therapy. Results indica…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This study shows which type of pineapple juice has the greatest amount of Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) between fresh pineapple juice, frozen pineapple juice from concentrate, and canned pineapp…
ISEF · 2015
GPS Assisted Speed Control Road traffic accidents due to excessive speed continue to increase. Law enforcement measures are insufficient to tackle this problem, therefore new approaches are…
ISEF · 2015
With technological innovations occurring so rapidly, there has been an increased emphasis on improving infrared detectors, especially for military applications such as night vision, thermal…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Although conventional chemotherapy has displayed notable efficacy in destroying cancerous cells, this non-specific treatment also tends to harm surrounding healthy cells. To counteract this…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of my project is to compare the ethanol yield and the protein values of the distiller grains of switchgrass and prairie cordgrass pretreated with elemental sulfur, compared to no…
ISEF · 2015
Euglena gracilis is a very important part of the marine environment, providing food for many organisms in a similar way phytoplankton does. The organism also has many additional dietary uses…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of my experiment was to determine what type of rangeland has the most infiltration. I hyoitgesus that Holistically Planned Grazed Native Rangeland will have the most infiltration…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This 2nd year research presents a comparison between traditional classroom manipulatives, phase 1 (a set of single-valued radio frequency identification (RFID) magnetic cubes with solo reade…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Background: This study examines how physical activity and sleep patterns change over time, and how those changes affect physical/mental health among adolescents. Methods: A 3-section survey…
ISEF · 2015
Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) is an immune-mediated disease and a complication of allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplants (BMT). It develops in between 20 to 80% of those who’ve undergone a BM…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Four hundred tons of sulfamethazine are fed to livestock annually in North America to prevent disease and promote growth, but most of the drug is excreted unmetabolized into the environment.…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Problem: 285 million people in the world are visually impaired, representing a staggering 4% of our population. Currently-available assistive devices for the blind are either somewhat crude…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
CRISPR/Cas is a prokaryotic defense system that produces complexes that target themselves to and degrade specific foreign nucleic acids, such as virus DNA. The CRISPR/Cas bacteria Streptococ…
ISEF · 2015
This project’s aim was to investigate how changing the distribution of mass around a central point of a pendulum affected its motion and to then use the data collected to model a method of s…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
H.E.R.O. presents a novel approach towards assisting the visually impaired during navigation through the development of an Arduino platform based, multimodal, haptic feedback device that all…
ISEF · 2015
Our project is concerned with the construction and programming of a six-legged exploration robot. The intention of using it for exploration in danger areas such as buildings at risk of colla…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
Patients with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) have a very poor prognosis. Their tumors are not responsive to chemotherapy. Previous studies have suggested that metastasis in IBC is driven b…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The high frequency resonant transformer, more commonly known as the Tesla coil, is a device that combines different physical phenomena in the field of electromagnetism. The existing literatu…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Phase-locked loop (PLL) control has been widely applied, for example, in hard disk drives, which require extremely precise control of their rotational speed. The present study is the develop…
ISEF · 2015
Development of miniaturized Nanosensor for detection of CO (Carbon Monoxide) gas at low temperature, with lower detection limit and long term stability. Several nonmaterials in particular Se…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
An indigenous Fynbos plant, such as Leucadendron species, adapted to the Western Cape’s harsh conditions would be ideal to replace foreign crops that are grown currently because these need f…
ISEF · 2015
I have synthesized the high temperature superconductor YBCO (YBa2Cu3O7) on top of perovskite dielectric BCT (Ba(Cd1/3Ta2/3)O3) using pulsed laser ablation. Growth of this structure has not b…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Due to the increasing prevalence of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and currently the absence of effective disease modifying drugs, there is a need for improved drug screens to identify plausible A…