ISEF · 2019
GloveSpeaker
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The main aim of our project is to create a device which will help to mute people to communicate with other people, who do not know language of gestures. Problem of our project is creating a…
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ISEF · 2019
Glue Busters II: The Effects of Accelerated Cure Time on the Ultimate Shear Strength and Efficiency of CA and PVA Glue
Physics and Astronomy
This project studied the effects of accelerated cure time for CA and PVA glues. I tested the ultimate shear strength (USS) of 120 cross-grain lap joints over 6 weeks and then compared the fi…
ISEF · 2019
Go0: Reimagining Data, Privacy, and the Internet with Zero-Knowledge Computing and Distributed Systems
Systems Software
Data security and privacy stand critical in today’s internet infrastructure, yet 2018 - witnessed disastrous data breaches affecting 2B people across the globe. Background audit reveals exis…
ISEF · 2019
Going Green to Prevent Breast Cancer: The Effect of Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG) on Tumor Growth in Planaria
Translational Medical Science
Many people struggle with breast cancer, and while there is no cure, several studies are being done on everyday substances believed to contribute to preventing the growth of cancerous tumors…
ISEF · 2019
Gold Nanoring Sensing Membrane Application for Hydrogen Peroxide Detection as Myocardial Marker Study
Materials Science
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is highly noted as a cytotoxic compound. Typically, its level is increased in cardiovascular disease patients, such as in myocardial infarction cases. In 2013, as re…
ISEF · 2019
Good Night Sleep Tight: A Study of the Impact of Co-Sleeping on the Child, the Mother, and the Parental Relationship
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Purpose: 1. To identify the psychological or behavioral impacts that co-sleeping has on the child. 2. To determine if co-sleeping affects the parental relationship. 3. Identify the understan…
ISEF · 2019
Graphene-Enabled Templating Synthesis of Metal Origami for Next-Generation Soft Robotics
Materials Science
Soft robotics seek to replicate the soft-bodied structures found in animals, allowing for a diverse range of movements. Conventional soft-materials exhibit limited functionality, serving sup…
ISEF · 2019
Graphene Sand Synthesis and Applications in Water Filtration and Desalination
Environmental Engineering
Graphene is a one-atom-thick allotrope of carbon that has a hexagonal lattice structure, and it has good adsorption and conduction characteristics. Graphene sand is a composite of sand coate…
ISEF · 2019
Graphene Solar-Photon Sail: A Novel Approach to the Application of Monolayer Graphene on Aluminumized Polyimide Film Using a Figure of Merit of a Solar-Photon Sail Membrane for Interstellar Space Exploration
Physics and Astronomy
Graphene is a one atom thick monolayer hexagonal lattice of carbon atoms with a theoretical thickness of 0.345 nanometers and unique tensile strength capabilities. This study aims to determi…
ISEF · 2019
Green and High-Performance Supercapacitor Prepared by NiO Embedded Carbon and Nanocellulose from Corn Wastes
Energy: Chemical
The major advance in energy storage today has mainly been focusing on lithium-based batteries due to their good overall performances in storage capacity. However, for applications requiring…
ISEF · 2019
Green Network: Solutions for Supply Chain Traceability and Monitoring of Environmental Parameters to Support Agriculture and to Improve Product Quality
Plant Sciences
The term Smart Agriculture defines the sphere of solutions aimed at monitoring, managing and optimizing processes related to agriculture: being able to monitor environmental parameters relat…
ISEF · 2019
GREENROAD Panel
Materials Science
This project consists of two parts, the waterproofing and thermocouples, which are responsible for generating energy, the waterproofing is mainly made of recycled rubber, to promote the recy…
ISEF · 2019
Green Synthesis of Medicinally Privileged Thio-Heterocycles
Chemistry
Since mid-eighties of the past century, a huge number of microwave-assisted organic/organometallic/inorganic transformations have been published with a growing number in every year. It is we…
ISEF · 2019
Green Tea (Camellia sinensis): Comparison of Antioxidant Activity between Authentic and Supplement Samples via the Briggs-Rauscher Reaction along with their UHPLC Fingerprinting in order to Address the Issue of Adulteration
Chemistry
Antioxidants are vital in maintaining good health. They terminate chain reactions that produce free radicals. As a result, antioxidants help combat against diseases caused by oxidative stres…
ISEF · 2019
Green to Clean: Algae - A Novel Method for Oil Spill Remediation
Environmental Engineering
Oil spills are a daunting threat all around the world and the current forms of remediation are costly, inefficient and toxic. Oil spills, therefore, are economically burdening and have a dev…
ISEF · 2019
Green Watts: Investigating Power Production of a Single Chamber Plant Microbial Fuel Cell in a Modular System Comparing Crop Plants, Triticum aestivum, Saccharum officinarum and Zea mays - A Novel Fifth Year Study
Microbiology
Impacts of global warming are causing a need for renewable energy alternatives. Plant-microbial fuel cells (P-MFC's) have emerged in recent years as a promising method that uses bacteria to…
ISEF · 2019
Ground-based Followups of TESS Exoplanet Candidates
Physics and Astronomy
The goal of this study was to further confirm, characterize, and classify LHS3844b, an exoplanet detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Furthermore, I strove to determ…
ISEF · 2019
Growth Promotion and Yield Enhancement of Crop Seeds with Plant Products: Effects of Extracts, Endophytic Symbionts, and Endosperm
Plant Sciences Third Award
This study addresses the global demand for crop supply by enhancing germination and harvest yield of Zea mays (maize) and Glycine max (soybean) seeds with plant extracts, endophytes, and end…
ISEF · 2019
H2Go: A Construction and Analysis of a Novel Purification Device
Environmental Engineering
There are already hundreds of different ways to create clean water. Yet in the world today, thousands of people don't have access to this necessity because of their lack of time, money and t…
ISEF · 2019
(H2O)h My!
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment determines if data from 1975, on water hardness in the US ties in with todays data. Email FFA advisors in US & ask to send area water samples. Organize vials by water hardnes…
ISEF · 2019
Habitat Preference Drives Brain Shape in Crocodylomorphs
Animal Sciences
Explicating the larger rules that dictate biological evolution requires the study of a subject that exemplifies not only the immense variety that occurs from the diversification of species,…
ISEF · 2019
Hand-Held Detector with Retro-Reflective Mosaic Screens to Visualize Optical Inhomogeneities
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Visible streaks produced by air density variations, caused by temperature changes, any gas leakage or object’s moving (e.g. with supersonic speed), are an example of the Schlieren effect. In…
ISEF · 2019
Hardware Integrated LiDAR Simulation for the Development of Collision Avoidance Algorithms
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Navigating an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in complex and dynamic environments poses challenges for human operators, and can be mitigated through the use of autonomous control systems. In t…
ISEF · 2019
Harnessing Energy from Random Vibrations Using the Triboelectric Effect: A Novel Approach
Energy: Physical
The ongoing resource shortage has left the world alarmed. Leaving behind polluting and wasteful sources, the turn to non-conventional energy sources has begun. Triboelectricity, the phenomen…
ISEF · 2019
Harnessing Energy Using Soil-Based Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC)
Energy: Chemical
Soil based microbial fuel cells (MFCs) use soil bacteria to convert chemical energy of soil components into electricity directly. Organic matter (food source for microbes) addition helps cre…
ISEF · 2019
Harnessing Renewable Power to Charge a Device
Energy: Physical
Utilizing the Seebeck effect with thermoelectric cooling plates, is it possible to make a device that can charge a phone? If there is a substantial difference between a hot plate and ice on…
ISEF · 2019
"Harvesting Friction to Shine a Light": Study on the Transparent & Flexible Triboelectric Energy Harvesting Device Using Bilayer Graphene
Energy: Physical
1.3 billion people around the world live without access to “modern electricity.” Therefore, in these regions, the significance of small scale energy harvesting devices is increasing. This re…
ISEF · 2019
Harvesting the Blue Wave Energy by Circular Electromagnetic Generator
Energy: Physical
Oceans provide an enormous quantity of clean and sustainable wave energy that can generate enough electricity to power the entire globe. However, due to the inefficiency and ineffectiveness…
ISEF · 2019
Hash Chaining: A Theoretical Model Using Salted Hashes to Generate Ethereal Keys
Systems Software
As technology becomes more widespread, the possibilities hackers have to access our data grows exponentially. People's personal information is put at risk most often by frail security protoc…
ISEF · 2019
Healing a Broken Heart: Examining the Role of Polycomb Group Protein Asxl2 in Cardiomyocyte Proliferation
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Heart disease is the number one killer worldwide, resulting in 800,000 American deaths annually. Scarring of the heart, due to cardiomyocyte death during myocardial infarctions, compromises…