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ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Cellulosic ethanol is a renewable, alternative fuel that could reduce the reliance on fossil fuels. However, cellulose is resistant to breaking down into glucose because its crystalline stru…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Fourth Award
We often meet the well-known mathematical means: the arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means. They appear in inequalities, extremum problems, geometric connections. However, the ancient pyt…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Approximately 2.2 billion people lack access to safely managed water supplies. Biological contaminants and heavy metals pose considerable threats to humanity, but are often expensive to dete…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Diabetes is an international health crisis. There is an extreme need for adequate testing methods. This led us to ask the question: Can we use manganese (IV) oxide nanosheets to create an in…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose behind this experiment was to determine the reliability of eyewitnesses as evidence in court cases and other legal proceedings. It was hypothesized that none of the participants…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
Cycling has come to be one of the most popular sports in the world due to the convenience of travel, fitness and reduced carbon emissions. With it comes the danger of cycling with road vehic…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
To reduce styrofoam pollution, Tenebrio beetles and their larvae, mealworms, are very effective. They can digest and biodegrade polystyrene plastic, or styrofoam, into released carbon dioxid…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
The ability of microfluidic (MF) device technologies to provide a lot of information with a small amount of sample, the opportunities it provides increases their use in the medical field in…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
Oceans cover more than seventy percent of all the Earth's surface. Inside them, one of the organisms that have one of the greatest social-economic importance and that we have the least data…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This project was outlined to identify important socio-economic variables and their influence in COVID-19 spread. This information can be beneficial to minimizing virus spread as it’ll allow…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
Mechanical Thrombectomy is an interventional procedure for removing blood clots in patients with Venous Thrombosis using a circular-helicoid device as usual. The removal of blood clots is im…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
This study examined the difference in performance between a sintered and unsintered UHMWPE runner base. Each runner base sample’s Coefficient of friction was tested before and after 10 miles…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
There are approximately 10^31 bacteriophages in the world, but fewer than three thousand have been characterized genomically. Phages have helped in the medical field through phage therapy, b…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Micron-sized aerosols which are the dominant mechanism of spread for influenza and tuberculosis are implicated as the likely mode of transmission for COVID-19. This study examines whether ae…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality globally, made particularly deadly by asymptomatic metastasis in the early stages of cancer development. A solid understanding of the dyn…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Desertification is supposed to be one of the main global problems. There are lots of sandy wastelands in Krasnoye settlement and in its surroundings. Recovery of vegetation and saving its di…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Purpose: To analyze the effect of strict measures on the control of COVID-19 pandemic in China and elaborate its significance and enlightenment. Procedure: We collected epidemiological infor…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences
The presence of copper in water is easily overlooked and not addressed. If this rate of negligence is continued, it can have devastating consequences on the environment. Many methods to remo…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this research was to discover if added polyamines affected the growth rates and root-to-shoot ratios of droughted and nondroughted soybean plants. Soybean plants were given ex…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
The creation of nanofilm (sheets of nanoclusters) are widely used in many materials today for structural engineering and electronic equipment. Manipulating and observing nanocluster growth i…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
The effect of wing shape on a paper airplane’s flight, or rather gliding distance was tested by launching two different airplane designs fifty times each. After every flight the distance bet…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by loss of dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra, negatively affecting motor control and causing symptoms…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if adding biochar to chicken manure would affect phosphorus losses. This is important due to the recent boom of chicken barns in the Nebraska…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Based on USDA’s 2017 Census of Agriculture data, 99% of farmed animals in the US are raised in Animal Feeding Operations (AFOs) or Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). These AFOs…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Due to COVID-19, millions of K-12 and college students have been required to transition to online school, an underdeveloped and questionable medium for education. Even in hybrid learning pla…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2, and MERS-CoV are three human coronaviruses (HCoVs). They each cause pathogenic and infectious diseases that have damaged society. The spike (S) protein resides on the H…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In order to gauge the response to the coronavirus in Boston, the air quality at several public transportation stations was measured before and during lockdown. Throughout the entire experime…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Investigations indicate that diabetic patients with myocardial infarctions (MI) have an increased risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) post-MI. In diabetic MI, blood hemoglobin (Hb) rises, whic…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
The purpose of the project is to determine which protein supplement is best for baby goats, kids. The hypothesis is that if the kids are given the pre-made food, then they will grow faster t…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
Oxidative stress in blue light exposed C. elegans was previously assessed because human adults spend approximately 11 hours per day exposed to excessive blue light from various technologies…