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ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Daphnia magna is an invertebrate water flea species that lives in freshwater and brackish water and is commonly found on the United States’ northeastern coasts. The purpose of this experimen…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Orchids are plants that are difficult to propagate, as their seeds do not have the amount of nutrients necessary for germination. In a natural environment, only 5% of the seeds germinate, re…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
This project studied the Effects of Declining pH Levels of Seawater Caused by Ocean Acidification on Zooxanthellae and Coral Bleaching. This is important because coral reefs are considered a…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The herbicide glyphosate, N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine, is a widely used active ingredient in Roundup herbicide that controls broadleaf weeds, grasses, and aquatic plants. It is known that th…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Angiogenesis is the process of forming new blood vessels from pre-existing ones and is essential for many functions such as wound healing, embryonic development, and repair. However, angioge…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative bacterium affecting above 50% of the world’s population, with higher prevalence in the developing world. It causes numerous gastrointestinal diseases s…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a group of cancers in which stem cells in the bone marrow have a clonal advantage and cause irregular maturation of blood cells. Dysplastic cells cannot mig…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to find out whether a functional model can be made of an epiglottis utilizing a 3D printed and porcine version, and which of the two would work more effici…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Rapid developments in industry and economy have resulted in global water issues, both in the environment, like contamination, and in alarming increases in demand. It is essential to develop…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Producing sustainable fuel such as hydrogen gas is essential to mitigate the harmful effects of CO2-emissions, such as global warming and climate change on natural life cycles. Hematite (a-F…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
This experiment was performed to determine which internal fan speed would be the most efficient when looking at water production within a water production prototype. As the engineering mecha…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
Cardiovascular and neurological diseases make up the majority of the world’s current health crisis, yet there is a lack of a proactive and accurate system in place to address this issue. Hen…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
Identifying alternatives to fractional distillation is an area of heavy research, as distillation towers are too costly and energy inefficient. Membranes, such as ZIF-8, are an effective alt…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
A height meter is a device for height measuring. Height meters are widely used in hospitals, kindergartens, schools, as well as at the enterprises where control over the health of the people…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
Saccharides, a widely used major energy source for humans, turn brown when exposed to high temperatures, such as during cooking. The brown color is in part due to caramelization, a reaction…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
Finite group actions on closed orientable surfaces via homomorphisms is a widely studied topic in group theory and low dimensional topology. It is closely related to symmetries of surfaces a…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
Energy consumption by air conditioning (AC) systems is considered to be a significant problem, especially in tropical and middle-eastern countries. The high demand for energy is due to the d…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
According to the United States Bone and Joint Initiative, each year, 126.6 million Americans suffer from a musculoskeletal injury or disorder lasting over 3 months, resulting in $213 billion…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Freshwater accounts for 2.5% of the planet’s water, and the U.N.’s estimated 7.7 billion people on Earth are taxing that supply. With 3,100 cubic miles of freshwater vapor trapped in the atm…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
After researching an effective alternative for plastic straws due to the extensive amount of microplastic pollution, I became concerned with the possibility of our drinking water supply bein…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Bioprinting serves as a potential solution to many modern medical complications. From the broad range of organ shortages, to cancer research and drug testing, bioprinting proves its necessit…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
Paintable Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging field of research with wide implications for interactive, human-centric technology. Electrically Conductive Paint is a material that becomes…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
A massive drop in bearing acres is attributed to severe damage to the trees caused by freezing temperatures. A new freeze prevention method was created through incorporating a solar energy r…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
In this experiment an actual automotive bumper was tested against another vehicle bumper and the impact with and without interventions measured by a PCB Piezotronics 208C03 Force Sensor. A 2…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
One of the most dangerous components of an oil spill is the emulsion that forms between the spilled oil and the surrounding seawater. This submerged emulsion can persist for many years and i…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
The complex, dynamic tumor microenvironment consists of live tissues that directly influence the progression of a tumor, including the extracellular matrix: a mesh of water, minerals, proteo…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
Acoustic band gap materials are periodic arrangements of scattering materials that harness the properties of waves to create band gaps—areas of space where waves of specific frequencies cann…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
Compression is useful because it reduces resources required to store and transmit data. It is used to represent data in relatively smaller number of bits. Many now-a-days used general purpos…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the most produced plastic globally, composing single-use plastic bottles, shopping bags, and more. Consequently, the environment suffers from its producti…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Our planet’s temperature is continuing to rise dangerously due to greenhouse gas emissions from the excessive use of fossil fuels. This is contributing to global warming and forest decline w…