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ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
By 2025, more than 1,100 satellites will be deployed annually. These satellites will provide GPS, weather tracking, and communications, along with countless other services to humanity. Curre…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Excessive soil salinity can decrease plant available water resulting in poor turfgrass growth conditions. The purpose of this project is to determine if time domain reflectometry (TDR) instr…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Oxygen is critical to sustain aerobic life. Scientists are developing methods to deliver oxygen to stagnant water and human bodies when perfusion, or the movement of gasses across a membrane…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
In this off-world research environment construction “proof of concept” demonstration, lower-cost consumer-grade Oculus Quest virtual reality (VR) hardware employing affordable Spatial metave…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Since 24,000 BC climate change has affected localized areas across the Southwestern United States; however, these effects today are seen at an unparalleled rate. Climatic projections suggest…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The combustion of fossil fuels is inflating atmospheric CO2 concentrations to an unprecedented peak. This has reached 412 ppm, a staggering 112 ppm higher than the greatest concentration to…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Actin-based molecular motor myosin Va (myoVa) is a biological machine involved in intracellular cargo transport, which is essential for normal cellular function. Although a single myoVa is s…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
The aim of my research was to evaluate effective building materials for the future exploration of Mars. The greatest threat posed to humans on Mars is the high levels of ionizing radiation o…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Background: Machine learning (ML) algorithms have potential to rapidly screen COVID-19 from chest x-ray (CXR). Current deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) models for COVID-19 detection…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Problem: The COVID-19 pandemic put hospitals into a state of frenzy attempting to handle the sheer quantity of patients. This project aims to predict mortality likelihood of patients that te…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Due to COVID-19, the economy has suffered from health protocols. The U.S. needs to know which states were most affected by COVID-19 to distribute aid effectively in case another pandemic occ…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics
The CNMI heavily relies on tourism. With the COVID-19 pandemic, this poses a concern for the tourism industry. In this project, the stats and data regarding the amount of worldwide COVID-19…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems
A research article “Measuring the scientific effectiveness of contact tracing: Evidence from a natural experiment,” stated, “...a total of 15,841 COVID-19 cases (around 20% of all cases) fai…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
With the growing amount of COVID-19 cases, especially in developing countries with limited medical resources, it’s essential to accurately diagnose COVID-19 with high specificity. Due to cha…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
Diabetes mellitus is the ninth leading cause of death worldwide, affecting millions worldwide and likely more due to inefficient testing, and is growing worse every year. The system presente…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The development of visual models using machine learning is fundamental in furthering interest in artificial intelligence. An autonomous path navigator model utilizing methods that could be u…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Concrete is the most used material in the world second only to water. This project was to create a concrete material that can be used to build business, residential, and infrastructural site…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This research report is an investigation into which natural materials in combination with concrete will strengthen a structure's stability against lateral movement. The main purpose of this…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in every 25 hospitalized patients in America has a Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI), affecting around 650,000 patients annually (Magill e…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The scarcity of food and water is one of the challenges that pose a serious threat to the life and continuity of future generations, as well as its great impact on current generations. The s…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
The rapid decline of hermit crabs can compromise a marine ecosystem that relies on crabs to fertilize soil, disperse seeds and eat detritus (Lavers, 2019). These scavengers have a vital role…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
There are over one hundred million pieces of space debris in low Earth orbit (LEO) at least one millimeter in diameter. Absent a mechanism to remove this debris, a phenomenon known as Kessle…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
While treating Glioblastoma multiforme, a rapidly-progressive brain cancer with an average survival of less than a year, doctors traditionally conduct biopsies of the patient’s tumor to asse…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems
Irrefutable environmental changes have been recorded in recent years evidenced by increased cyclonic activity and changes in ocean temperatures. This causes the need for improved and efficie…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Infinitely many metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can be made by combining nodes and organic linkers. As of now, 90,000 MOFs have been successfully synthesized and over 500,000 predicted.The p…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
A geomagnetic storm is a disturbance of Earth’s magnetic fields caused by solar wind plasma and interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). Even a moderate storm can lead to satellite loss, such as…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
This study was performed to determine the cross-species transmission of the Drosophila melanogaster Nora virus in other species of insects and the prevalence of Nora virus in native insect p…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
CRISPR/Cas9 is a revolutionary gene-editing technology that has been widely utilized in biology, biotechnology, and medicine. CRISPR/Cas9 editing outcomes depend on local DNA sequences at th…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Cubesats are very small spacecraft in low Earth orbit. If a cubesat has propulsion on board it probably uses non-renewable fuel sources. I have designed and am developing a more efficient pr…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Hormonal breast cancer has a good prognosis compared to other breast cancer subtypes, however, ER-/PR+/HER2-, a hormonal breast cancer type, does not receive the benefits of hormonal therapy…