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ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The depletion of water resources and environmental hazards associated with aging oil wells, including the release of oil-contaminated water, present grave threats to marine ecosystems and hu…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
Perovskite nanocrystals carry significant promise in the field of intracellular sensing. When in proximity with radiolabeled analytes, fluorescent nanoparticles emit photoluminescent signatu…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
HPV driven oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) linked cancers kill upwards of 40,000 people each year. In order for early detection and treatment to be administered, the NavDx bloo…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences
It’s a reasonable and known human response to want pain reactions to end as fast as possible. The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP; 1979) defines pain as “an unpleasant…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
Many people all over the world are switching to the consumption of insects. In places like Africa, Southeast Asia, and northern parts of Latin America insects are considered a popular delica…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Background Obesity is generally modeled as a problem associated with socioeconomic (income, education, etc.) and genetic (age, race, etc.) factors. This study shows that, after controlling f…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
As Nicotine products are considered less risky than tobacco products, many disregard the negative effects of Nicotine and satisfy themselves with the thought that it won’t harm them. However…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
Highly toxic heavy metals find their way to living organisms through water and air. Emission of wastewater to water resources only proliferate the harm and health implications of exposure to…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Heart pumping is driven by cardiomyocyte (CM)contraction. However, there has been no direct approach to measuring CM beat. Fluorescent probes and electrical physiological techniques require…
ISEF · 2024
Embedded Systems Third Award
About 38 million falls are reported among older adults each year in the US alone with more than 50,000 fall injuries associated with walkers, leading to more than 30,000 hospitalizations. On…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics
Is a Bessel representation of exponential sums corresponding to divisors obtainable, and if so, viable? In an original expression I derived relating the divisor functions at individual point…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) plays a decisive role in the development of consumer electronics and electric vehicles (EVs). However, the problems of range anxiety and time-consuming charging…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics Fourth Award
We explore knots. If we allow self-intersections, we get Singular knots. To distinguish different knots, invariant functions are used. A function from the set of knots to a ring is called a…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry
Around one in five people worldwide are diagnosed with Osteoporosis, a disease that causes gradual loss of bone mass leading to increased risk of fractures, drastically reducing life expecta…
ISEF · 2024
Embedded Systems
This project addresses the problem of expensive sports cameras for small teams unable to cover the over 3k per season subscriptions. The hardware required for this project includes a Raspber…
ISEF · 2024
Microbiology
Bacterial biofilms, which contribute 80% of microbial infections in humans, are difficult and expensive to treat due to their antibiotic resistance. This experiment investigated the potentia…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Deep reinforcement learning(DRL) has shown significant promise in a wide range of applications including computer games and robotics. Yet, DRL policies require very long training times resul…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics
When many participants are involved, rock-paper-scissors tournaments can take numerous matches to complete. Prior studies attempted to reduce the number of matches by appropriately distribut…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Water is a valuable natural resource that is used in virtually every part of our daily life. However, the problem of water shortage is getting worse by year, and it is projected that almost…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
The shift towards a fossil-free society has exponentially increased the demand for Li-- the most critical material used in electric vehicles and Li+ batteries. However, mineral demand for Li…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The escalating population and urbanization have led to a surge in municipal solid waste (MSW), posing numerous challenges in MSW collection and transportation. Garbage trucks, pivotal in thi…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Ataxia Telangiectasia (A-T) is a rare (one in ~100,000) autosomal recessive neurogenetic disorder, primarily characterized by cerebellar atrophy and progressive severe motor coordination los…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This project was undertaken to discover the optimal angle of attack (AoA) to maximize pounds of lift produced from airfoils at low speeds. An initial selection of 20 airfoils was obtained by…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) offer solutions to the drawbacks of traditional silicon solar cells. However, research is needed to identify and harness factors that may increase their ef…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
In recent years, more renewable and clean forms of energy have emerged, among them is hydrogen energy. While it is an advantageous option, its downside, which prevents it from being more com…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and lip reading presents a promising avenue in communication technology, particularly for enhancing accessibility and human-computer interact…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences
This science fair project investigated the fertilizer application rates on nitrate levels in sudangrass. Four field rows had different rates of nitrogen application. They ranged from 50% to…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
"Piezoelectricity is a phenomenon that happens in certain materials that generate electric charge under mechanical stress due to their non-centrosymmetric molecular structure. The developmen…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry Fourth Award
When Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman developed mRNA therapeutics, they packaged mRNA in 4-component lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to prevent bloodstream degradation by RNases. Research has sin…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This study focuses on efficient biodiesel production using rice bran oil as a renewable resource, aiming to determine the optimal conditions for transesterification. The free fatty acid cont…