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ISEF · 2016
Satellites have many uses, such as communications, monitoring, and navigation. Satellites orbit the earth according to Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation. According to this law, the perio…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Increasing atmospheric CO2 levels and depleting fertility in agricultural soils is a world-wide dilemma. A variety of processes and interactions occur between plants and soil microbial commu…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
To solve the problem statement - of the 6.1 million mobility device users in the United States, those who push or pull on the walker when sitting or standing cause it to become unstable - th…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Several drugs, including aminoglycosides and platinum-based chemotherapy agents, are well known for their ototoxic properties. However, the ototoxic potential of most therapeutic compounds i…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this project was to construct a robotic prosthetic hand that functions as good or better than robotic prosthetic hands presently being developed or currently on the market. Us…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Besides anthropogenic influences, the effects of temperature and El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Cycles on Chelonoidea are a secondary effect towards the decline of the population of the…
ISEF · 2016
Hospital acquired infections are infections that patients catch from the hospital environment or staff. According to the Centers for Disease Control, hospital acquired infections infect 1.7…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experimentation is to determine whether photo luminescent concrete coatings (containing strontium aluminate) will be effective as a building material by testing the resis…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Humans are able to quickly and accurately determine intent from early motions of other agents in the social environment. Through real-time analysis of biomechanical patterns, the mind uses p…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of the current study was to determine whether scaling typography to the Golden Ratio improves cognitive fluency, and therefore reading comprehension abilities, in nystagmus patie…
ISEF · 2016
Numerous methods, such as chemical reduction, biosynthesis and laser ablation, all account for the generation of nanoparticles. However, the environmental-friendliness and swiftness in plasm…
ISEF · 2016
My experiment was designed to determine if increasing the diameter of the exhaust ports in a Tesla Turbine correlates with the torque of that turbine, in order to optimize Tesla Turbines. I…
ISEF · 2016
Purpose of the Experiment: The maximum number of points that can be embedded in a metric space, such that the distance between any two points is equal, is known as its equilateral dimension.…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The formation of planets out of gas and dust grains in protoplanetary disks is still a puzzling process. Observations of exoplanets - for example the detection of gas giants nearby their cen…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Experts predict the earth's crude oil reserves will last another 40-70 years. The era of "green gold" will begin at that point, replacing "black gold" as a raw material source. The most impo…
ISEF · 2016
Water treatment is currently considered as one of the top research priorities in Saudi Arabia. It has been reported by World Health Organization that 50,000 people die every day from disease…
ISEF · 2016
Does it really matter what kind of chalk you use on the bar? In this project, different types of chalk was tested to see what kind of chalk gives gymnasts a better grip on the bar. To test t…
ISEF · 2016
Due to Xanthan Gum’s gel-like attributes in solution, solution of Xanthan gum is likely to have adverse effects in plants. Bouteloua curtipendula, a prairie grass common in Texas, was used a…
ISEF · 2016
This project revolved around the manufacturing of a fully operational ground surveillance vehicle that could be the revolution in not only vehicles as a class, but also surveillance and secu…
ISEF · 2016
Microbial fuel cells are a newly innovative idea that allows solutions rich with electrochemically active bacteria to produce electricity using cellular respiration. In this experiment, diff…
ISEF · 2016
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 · 2016
Fourth Award
Concussions and other head injuries are very common in a wide variety of contact sports. However, a concussion that goes undetected can be severely life threatening to athletes through what…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This study was a continuing fourth year research to develop and evaluate 3 real world applications/interventions to combat obesity. First, an iPhone Application (HFS-App) was developed to he…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Environmental regulations on fuel quality have substantially limited the allowable amount of heavy (C9+) aromatics in gasoline, the principal components of heavy reformate. Thus, alternative…
ISEF · 2016
A scale model solar vehicle was developed for a race held in Medellin in 2015. In this race scale solar vehicles competed, all with the same solar panel and restrictions on dimensions and co…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Currently Medellin annually produces between 6000 to 9000 tons of residual organic material (Escalante Hernandez, 2014), which is considered a forest residue since it is the result of prunin…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
In 2014 alone, 39.8 billion tons of CO2 were emitted globally, invoking fears of an intensification of the greenhouse gas effect and the propagation of pollution in large cities. As such, th…
ISEF · 2016
The investigation tested whether Hibiscus sabdariffa, a green reducing agent, would successfully reduce the metals of: Au, Ag, and Ce into nanoparticles. Based on our literature review "Nano…
ISEF · 2016
Water is a vital factor for the survival of all living beings, in both industry and agriculture. Hidrolizas, is an initiative that seeks through the implementation of a semi-closed system of…
ISEF · 2016
Any Lie algebra by definition satisfies the following identities [x_1,x_2]+[x_2,x_1]=0 and [x_1,x_2,x_3]+[x_2,x_3,x_1]+[x_3,x_1,x_2]=0, where [a_1,...,a_n] denotes the left-normed Lie bracke…