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ISEF · 2024
Technology Enhances the Arts
My project was about how brands/companies can use color psychology to market their products to consumers. I have always been in the many different ways that color psychology can be used in t…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Eutrophication affects 65% of coastal and 53% of freshwater regions in the US but no scalable cyanobacterial degradation methods exist. Piezocatalysis harnesses mechanical energy to produce…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences
The purpose of our investigation was to test allelopathic dilutions from Kentucky BlueGrass and Brohm seed on germination of common crops: wheat, barley, and oats. We hypothesized that oats…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Late-stage diagnosis in over 90% Alzheimer's Disease (AD) patients worldwide often occurs at the 5th stage, significantly reducing life expectancy to an average of 5-6 years. Current screeni…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
Plastic pollution poses a significant environmental threat, resulting in over 29 million tons of plastic waste generated every year. With the demand for plastic increasing, it becomes impera…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Precession and nutation in dynamical systems have been of long-standing research interest. Manifesting in systems as diverse as spinning tops to celestial bodies like planets, understanding…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Spinal treatment modalities such as spinal fusion and trauma surgery, radiofrequency ablation, and cancer biopsies require the utmost precision to avoid damaging critical structures such as…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Purpose of this investigation is to develop a new safe and effective therapy for stroke. Nearly a quarter of global deaths each year are caused by blood clotting. High cholesterol and platel…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
The annual migration of millions of people within or between countries can create resource strain, tighten job markets, and fuel political realignment. One factor that can play a role in sha…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Cellular reprogramming holds immense promise for novel therapeutics in fields like disease reversion and cellular regeneration. This field aims to control or perturb gene expression to induc…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), the most common pediatric cancer, is characterized by the proliferation of immature, leukemic B-lymphocytes in the bone marrow. CAR-T cell therap…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is found in various tissues throughout the body, acting as an efflux pump that actively transports substances out of cells. As a result, P-gp plays an important role in…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics Third Award
Multiple Sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease affecting millions worldwide, is characterized by its unpredictable course. Mathematics as a tool for predicting MS outcomes and identifying fa…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Antibiotic resistance poses a global threat, leading to millions of infections annually and thousands of deaths and the chance of the world entering a post-antibiotic era where common infect…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Each year, nearly 2 million individuals in the United States alone receive a cancer diagnosis. Traditional methods for tracking tumor growth are inaccurate and invasive as MRI scans and biop…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
With over 18 million new cancer diagnoses and nearly 10 million associated deaths per year, cancer remains a significant global health challenge. Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest fo…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
In this era of water scarcity, water purification has become an important issue. Our aim is to contribute to both the ecosystem and the economy by preparing a novel treatment method and gree…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The operation of aircraft has numerous impacts on the world; it negatively impacts climate change, and it creates noise/air pollution. Electroaerodynamic (EAD) propulsion provides us with a…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Gun violence has become a threatening phenomenon that has been affecting the lives of Americans nationwide. Two main traits that show a predisposition towards gun violence are psychopathy an…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
We have found a law that connects the speed variation of a body to the throw of part of his mass, using the principle of conservation of momentum. Our results can be used to prove that accel…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Diabetes is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Loss of functional pancreatic ß-cell mass is key to both type 1 (T1D) and type 2 (T2D) diabetes. Islet macrophages have importa…
ISEF · 2024
Systems Software
Within the next twenty years, modern data encryption methods will become susceptible to quantum attacks due to their limited keyspace and reliance on mathematical factoring-based methods. Pr…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Nearly one in three of all Americans aged 13 to 18 experience an anxiety disorder. It is important now to accurately diagnose anxiety in adolescents. Current methods of diagnosis involve psy…
ISEF · 2024
Microbiology
The researchers conducted experiments using Pestalotiopsis microspora in which the researchers created a non-toxic biodegradable process of decomposing plastic for a nutrient source and re-f…
ISEF · 2024
Embedded Systems Second Award
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 2.2 billion people have some form of visual impairment, half of which could be improved by more affordable solutions. My project attempts to…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
Amid the pressing need to combat global warming, attention is increasingly turning towards innovative technologies that harness greenhouse gases like (CO2) carbon dioxide and (CH4) methane t…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The diagnosis rate of ASD in adolescents has increased since 2002. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2020 report, there is 1 child with ASD in every 36 children.…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The rise of public interest in space exploration has sparked the development of new satellite technologies such as CubeSats, making research opportunities more accessible for scientists arou…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The objective of this experiment is to develop an efficient automatic water filtration system aimed at safeguarding sea grasses in the wild from turbidity. This system is proposed as a viabl…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Flow meters that test lung function requires a device to measure airflow. Currently used devices are often flawed (vane anemometers) or are expensive and difficult to clean (pneumotachs). Pn…