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ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
The purpose of this research is to develop an easy and inexpensive kit that detects heavy metal ions in drainage and monitors the degree of water pollution. It was assumed that Luminol’s lum…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Antibiotic pollution in soils and groundwater is one of the world’s most pressing problems. There are 1.4µg of antibiotics per-liter of freshwater and 125,000 tons of antibiotics polluted ev…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The purpose of this project is to see if Atrazine passes its negative effect on the sensory, motor, and learning behaviors of planaria to the second generation planaria. The second generatio…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
A randomized controlled trial was run over the course of a 5 week period on 40 high school students to investigate the effects of simulation racing (SR) on attentional control. Prior researc…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software Fourth Award
With the inherent interconnectivity of online communications comes the presence of disinformation. While the utilization of disinformation by individuals is harmful, the tactic is worse when…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software Fourth Award
Analogy-making is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject to another. By making analogies, we find similarities between two subjects, which helps…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s Disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that results in memory loss and a general cognitive decline, afflicting approximately 45 million people worldwide with the rate…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
During the early months of COVID-19, neither doctors nor patients knew how dangerous the virus was and how to best treat it. Because formal research took several months to complete, people d…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Using Western tools for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) leads to inaccurate and inadequate diagnoses in the Indian setting due to huge diversity in socioeconomic and linguistic backgrounds. C…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
Mosquitoes are small and deadly pests. They transmit various diseases, causing over 700,000 human deaths annually, making mosquito control essential. A novel mosquito trap, the In2Care trap,…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Melanoma is one of the most fatal forms of skin cancer and is often very difficult to differentiate from other benign skin lesions. However, if detected at its early stages, it can almost al…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
Mathematical research has always been done by humans - mathematicians with the help of their thinking abilities. From the 1950s onwards, computers began to be used to perform a variety of ta…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The presented hydrogen generator is efficient in combination with a hydrogen fuel cell. Imagine an electric car that runs on electric power accumulated in its battery. Battery charged at a l…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder that affects communication and behavioral skills. People with ASD show atypical attention to social stimuli and gaze at human faces…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project is to develop and compare a set of various neural network architectures to track the location of Muscle Tendon Junction in ultrasound footage. An accurate and eff…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to create a cost-effective, portable, automated UVC sterilizing system that kills bacteria on money through the sanitizing properties of UVC light. Multipl…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Contaminated water is responsible for causing millions of deaths and various effects in people’s health worldwide. Many countries spend billions of dollars to fix this problem. Therefore, th…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Even with all the basketball return chutes on the market, basketball players–including my sister–have no options when it comes to an affordable and reliable basketball return chute. After he…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The COVID-19 Pandemic is our biggest challenge with already over 100 million infections and 2.4 million deaths globally. Employers are following CDC guidelines by creating mask mandates, req…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
Despite the rapid development of technology, it is still a significant challenge to determine the location of people lost at sea. In 2019 in the USA 3500 people died from drowning and 613 in…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Microorganisms are observed every day in the hopes of finding new developments that will help gain new insights into human health. Many organisms move quite fast under the microscope's field…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this project is to design and construct an autonomous or manually controlled inexpensive UAV prototype that can assist in information gathering for the civilian population. Ev…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Oxidative stress produces macromolecular damage. It is implicated in several disease states such as cancer, aging and neurodegenerative disorders. Therefore, it is necessary to find solution…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
In recent decades, there's been an alarming increase in bacterial evasion of antibiotic treatments, necessitating an improved understanding of resistance, tolerance, and persistence. Resista…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Fourth Award
Based on prior studies, Avian Paramyxovirus Serotype 4 (APMV-4) has shown a rapid apoptotic cell death response within tumors in complement with the upregulation of stimulated immune signals…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Skin diseases are classified as fatal and non-fatal types. Some non-fatal types do not need doctor consultation because they can be naturally healed, for example, Atopic Dermatitis which is…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
The rise in consumption of goods and emissions from the economy has been increasing. As the incentive to go for a more sustainable lifestyle is low from consumers, producers are not shifting…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Wood laminates are sandwiched layers of wood glued together to distribute forces to increase its load-bearing capabilities. Laminated timber is used in vertical and horizontal beams that exp…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
Bacterial resistance against antibiotics is increasingly becoming a serious health problem. Bacterial infections are becoming harder to treat, which leads to increase in mortality and higher…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Polythene plastic grocery bags made from petroleum by-products are everywhere. If these bags are not recycled, they pollute our environment. By recycling hundreds of these grocery bags, we c…