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ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Five totally new compounds containing NCN amidinato ligand were synthetized in their very pure form. Compounds were prepared applying two methods: 1) a direct nucleophilic addition of metal…
ISEF · 2016
The objective of this project was the design, construction, testing and evaluation of a mechanism to harvest pressure energy from automotive traffic and using it to generate electricity. The…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Does pretreating stains with various detergents help? How do different detergents affect different stains? For example how to get rid of grass stains? In everyday life we often find ourselve…
ISEF · 2016
Every year, severe burns kill approximately 265,000 people due to opportunistic infection from normal flora, such as Staphylococcus epidermidis. This research studies the efficacy of using f…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Approximately 80-90% of Americans develop allergic reactions upon contact with poison oak or poison ivy. The allergen in both of these plants is a molecule known as urushiol, which binds to…
ISEF · 2016
Every year, an average of 37 children dies from hyperthermia (heat), when left unattended in the car. The objective of this experiment was to find an effective way to detect when the baby is…
ISEF · 2016
Pricey to Priceless Gel Electrophoresis’s purpose was to design a more cheap and effective way for forensic analysists to measure the accuracy of evidence in DNA testing of criminals, along…
ISEF · 2016
The aim of this project is to investigate how differing geometric vessel shapes affect the fractional flow reserve value, given constant percent stenosis. The chosen geometry shapes were a c…
ISEF · 2016
Wearable electronics are finding new applications in everyday life. Future adoption of wearable electronics into applications such as medical diagnostics, identity protection, and asset situ…
ISEF · 2016
Heart disease is one of leading causes of death in the United States. Electrocardiograms (ECG or EKG) are often used to diagnose cardiac conditions. The actual output from an ECG is not easy…
ISEF · 2016
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a rather widespread, devastating psychiatric illness without defined causes. Studies have implied an immunological dysfunction hypothesis for SCZ by identifying abnorm…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
To decrease the distance of model rocket drift after deploying a recovery system, the project goal was to develop a low-cost, guided system to bring a model rocket back to the launch area. A…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Nearly 40% of people age 65 and older have at least one disability; of those, two-thirds have difficulty walking. Wheelchairs can help people who have a hard time walking, but they are diffi…
ISEF · 2016
Prop-plane is an absolutely unique flying vehicle. The idea is to combine advantages of a plane and a helicopter. Prop-plane is much faster, more maneuverable and more economical. Moreover,…
ISEF · 2016
When we were younger, our father taught us how to program. We became involved with programming using Arduino. It became a hobby of ours. We were able to create a color sensor, temperature se…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Nucleic acid aptamers are single stranded DNA or RNA that bind targets ranging from large biomolecules to small chemicals, with affinities and specificities emulating antibodies, and provide…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of our experiment was to build a a robot that dispenses medicine to people using and image recognition sensor. To do this we used two programming codes called Windstorm EV3 and P…
ISEF · 2016
Topological insulators (TIs) are unique materials with novel quantum properties that arise from the existence of completely gapless surface states containing linear Dirac electronic dispersi…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Deep Learning has recently emerged as an effective machine learning technique that specializes in recognizing abstract patterns in large volumes of data. It has been very successful in vario…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
This research sought to determine a relationship between the force exerted on the thoracic region by a sports bra and the lung function of the wearer. This query was inspired by high school…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Streptococcus pneumoniae (MDRSp) has become multi-drug resistant. WHO lists it as the leading cause of child mortality globally. In developing countries, MDRSp causes 25-30% of child deaths.…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this project is to create a computer program that will solve the Rubik’s Cube from any configuration in an efficient and logical fashion. I started by constructing an animated…
ISEF · 2016
Eighty percent of the streams around the country sampled contained residues of drugs (USGS, 1999). The question is: What effect does the concentration of salicylic acid have on the growth of…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
The goal of this project is to design a low-cost earthquake early warning solution (Quakify) to provide adequate warning prior to hazardous ground shaking in a location. Harnessing the power…
ISEF · 2016
Is it radioactive? That’s what everyone asks when I tell them that I test items from Prince William Sound (PWS) beaches with my family. I am concerned with what is, and what will be washed u…
ISEF · 2016
This project arises from the following questions: Is it possible to recycle the radiographies? If so, can it be profitable and environmentally friendly? Our starting point is the hypothesis…
ISEF · 2016
Deep space exploration requires that food will need to be grown/ harvested on board the spacecraft. Storage space is minimal and would not accommodate the amount of food required for the dur…
ISEF · 2016
Observing and analyzing meteors is essential for the research of the Earth orbit. However, few studies had analyzed the HROFFT(Ham-band Radio meteor Observation by Fast Fourier Transform) da…
ISEF · 2016
As a reaction to Behind the Beautiful Forevers, a narrative chronicling the lack of sanitation in Mumbai slums, I engineered RainCloud, a financially feasible water conserving hand sanitatio…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this app is to teach the rules of the lab in a fun and interactive way. My reasoning was when I started my BioComm class and we had to read 55 rules in for a science lab. It w…