Browse real student projects, abstracts, and awards.
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Circadian clocks are biological systems found in nearly all living species. In plants, they are responsible for water, nutrient and light intake and usage. Based on numerous studies, there a…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
In the United States, athletes suffer roughly 3.8 million concussions per year. Unfortunately, many current concussion diagnostics are subjective, placing athletes in potentially dangerous s…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Nowadays, materials comprised of the combination of DNA and magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) attract particular attention with regard to their design. The administration of these materials is e…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Twenty-percent of women in the United States are affected by breast cancer. Estrogen-receptor negative cancer treatments for postmenopausal women often worsen symptoms of osteoporosis, resul…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences Third Award
The purpose of this project was to investigate the disparity between the abundance of Tamalia spp. galls on non-native Arbutus unedo and native Arctostaphylos spp. It was hypothesized that t…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical
As fossil fuels become increasingly scarce, the need for alternative eco-friendly renewable energy sources is becoming important. For domestic energy needs, one option is to extract solar en…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The accumulation of expanded polystyrene foam waste in landfills and oceans is an increasing global problem. Every year in the U.S. alone, a staggering 900 million kilograms of polystyrene f…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
The sweet potato whitefly, Bermisa tabaci (Genadius) has become a major pest of economically important crops worldwide. In this research, two experiments including 8 treatments were conducte…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Third Award
Due to ongoing technical miniaturization, the importance of nanoparticles in research and application is constantly growing. When bombarding nanoparticles with energetic ions, atoms from the…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Quantitative measurement of human gait is currently prohibitively expensive in the field of orthotics and prosthetics. This project is investigating the capabilities of a relatively inexpens…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
Nanoparticles are easily finding their way into the environment much easier than before due to them being in consumer products such as food and the lining of clothing. If enough nanoparticle…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
The project "JustStep: Voice message system for tactile ground surface indicator (TGSI)" is an Assistive Technology tool that aims to solve the difficulties faced by blind people in order to…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Traditional analysis of text has been limited to an analysis of the content to extract meaning and intent. New technologies now allow us to also measure the process of creating the content a…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Today's children are spending over fifty hours a week immersed in technology (Burke, 2003) and yet, seventy-five percent of these children fail to meet the World Health Organization's recomm…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Sinusitis is very common condition in the United States, afflicting 15% of the population each year. This study tested the antimicrobial/ inhibitory effects of Kimchi against the common Gram…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Early diagnosis is of unequivocal importance to survive debilitating multiple organ failure (MOF), the leading cause of death in the intensive care unit (ICU). However, current lab-based met…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Third Award
Speaking plays an indispensable role in communication. We utilize our vocal apparatus to speak through various articulatory processes including variations in the manner, place and the intona…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
Technology has given us advantages to improve our life’s quality; it brought a lot of changes to our life. Scientists plan to colonize the moon and planets, to expand the humankind in space.…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
Today the Internet is one of the most important services that everyone needs, for personal uses, but specially for business: email, web banking, cloud services, etc... Areas where is not pos…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry Second Award
Kaolinite, a natural deposit in Jordan has been proved it can be used for removal of toxic heavy metals from water. This study aimed to remove lead ions from industrial waste water using Nan…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The purpose of this experiment was to find the correlation between the complexity of leaf vein structure and the speed at which leaves dry, as determined by the rate of embolism formation. M…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is an invasive type of skin cancer that lacks expression of lecithin-retinol acyl transferase (LRAT), a protein implicated in wound healing and cancer progressi…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical
Due to the partial unavailability of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency in today's world is more important than anything else. Less energy consumption meaning less fossil fuels will…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
Hunger, one of the most prominent problems in the world today, is primarily caused by a shortage of fresh water. Significant optimization of water use can be achieved by knowing the time and…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics First Award
Despite industrialization, Sub-Saharan Africa’s water infrastructure leaves ~341 million people without access to potable water. In addition to water purification problems, transportation pr…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
Finding potential heavy metal and metalloid toxins in the Animas and San Juan riverbeds and onion bulb after the 2015 Gold King Mine Spill are crucial to the effects of the mitotic index of…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Linux processes’ memory visualization (MemVis) is a project which aims to facilitate the users who want easily to observe the memory of a currently running process and moreover to analyze it…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
In South Carolina there have been very few studies examining the behavior of the resident bats. This project tests the hypothesis that the coastal evening bats (Nycticeius humeralis), easter…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical Second Award
Concentrated solar technologies that concentrate sunlight on a receiver are becoming popular not just for electricity, but also for desalination. My research focuses on improving efficiency…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Fourth Award
This project takes a different approach to meteorological forecasting by investigating underlying patterns in local weather fluctuations and attempting to find a connection between these phe…