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ISEF · 2022
Chemistry Third Award
Nanoparticles are of significance because of their small size and unique characteristics. Few studies have been conducted on the synthesis of manganese nanoparticles. This project was among…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
The UV light assessment is essential for controlling of the skin and other living organisms getting fragile resulting in the premature aging of the skin, solar elastosis, liver spots, etc. T…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Non-degradable organic dyes are used by many industries, like textiles, printing, plastics, leather, paper, and cosmetics. Many of these dyes have carcinogenic, mutagenic, and teratogenic ef…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project focused on proving that those with aphantasia are at a disadvantage when it comes to standardized testing. Aphantasia is the inability to form mental images of objects that are…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software
Gender inequality is still something recurrent in contemporary society. For this reason, female participation is low in technological and scientific areas compared to boys. Based on this, it…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Current genetic databases provide a wealth of information accessible to the general population, but are primarily designed for usage by professionals already experienced in the fields of gen…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics Third Award
The Rubik's Cube is the most popular puzzle in the world. Two of its studied aspects are God's Number, the minimum number of turns necessary to solve any state, and the First Law of Cubology…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Ocean X is a project that aims to clean oceans and reduce pollution. One harmful pollution phenomenon is (Oil spills ) that cause severe damage, including the death of marine animals and pla…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
A promising solution to the issue of oil spill pollution are biological surfaces with superhydrophobic properties, which enable oil to be absorbed and removed. The water fern, Salvinia moles…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science Second Award
The current practice of treating cancer with radiation, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy is a one-size-fits-all approach, in which patients with the same type and stage of cancer receive the…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
The impact of environmental pollution has inspired sustainability through repurposing waste materials. Fish scales are one such material: often discarded by fish processing plants, fishmonge…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics
We strengthen a result of Jones by showing that for any integer P 1, the Lucas sequence {Un} defined by U0 = 0, U1 = 1, Un = P · Un1 + Un2 can be translated by a positive integer K(P) such t…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics Fourth Award
We begin by presenting an elementary proof of Ramanujan’s identity for odd zeta values. While Ramanujan's identity has been proved quite a few times earlier in the literature; there has been…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics
Consider assigning students to a set of classes, and classes to a set of students. Each student will attend more than one class, and each class will have more than one student (many-to-many…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
Fixed-wing unmanned aerial systems are utilized in a wide range of applications such as mapping, monitoring, surveillance, etc. These systems are usually extremely expensive and almost exclu…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin water dropper is an electrostatic generator that uses falling water to generate voltage differences by electrostatic induction occurring between interconnected, oppositely charged sys…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Large phased-arrays, ubiquitous for wireless communication, become expensive and complex as the number of nodes increase. With a single oscillator source for an entire array, current phased…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Cancer is one of the main causes of death in the world, and its conventional treatments (surgical removal, radiotherapy and chemotherapy) are invasive techniques and has many undesired effec…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
SARS-CoV-2 non-structural protein 12 (Nsp12) is a viral polymerase and a key drug target. The in vitro production of pure Nsp12 protein is crucial for advancing drug and treatment strategies…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In recent years, analysis of cerebral structures using whole-brain quantitative neuroimaging has been widely recognized for its ability to provide deep insights on neurological disease. Quan…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Computer processing speed has historically followed a trend of exponential improvement. This phenomenon is explained by Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors in a microchi…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With the high demand for renewable energy resources, large-scale energy storage systems are required to safely store the energy produced. Lithium-Ion batteries are the commercially dominant…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fresh water is of vital importance to farmers, but nowadays, unpredictable weather patterns and extended drought threaten food producers' access to an adequate supply. One solution in combat…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Surgical lighting is critical for patient safety and staff comfort and should be designed to enable the medical team to focus exclusively on the surgical operation. The current manual focus…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Multiple myeloma (MM), an incurable cancer of the plasma cells in the bone marrow, is the 2nd most common hematological malignancy. Melphalan is an alkylator chemotherapy and an effective tr…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software
Privacy online can be ensured by air gapping computers and networks–isolating a system and allowing only physical, external devices to access data. Air gapping a computer can prevent malicio…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to observe how overcrowding in soybeans affects their growth. To investigate this idea, the student planted one to eight seeds of 2 soybean varieties in 5 c…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Over the past 100 years, the earth has been increasingly affected by the production of energy through toxic means, in particular - fossil fuels. However, recently wave energy has emerged as…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science Third Award
PANDwriting is a novel screening system for neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), particularly targeted to increase Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Parkinson's Disease (PD) diagnostic access in low…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is caused by disruption of cellular homeostasis when clusters of the protein alpha-synuclein aggregate dopaminergic neurons. However, no prescription drug directly t…