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ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Access to clean water is a major challenge in many developing counties partly due to municipal and industrial pollution. Thus, developing low-cost technologies to provide clean water is vita…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Mississippi River carries an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution into the Gulf of Mexico every year. This pollution has turned more than 18,000 square miles of the Gu…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
My science fair project is intended to help people who like to do art. I love to draw and mistakes are inevitable so I decided to make my project about removing permanent marker ink. My expe…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project demonstrates that a new paradigm in energy storage should be considered. Materials science engineers have historically focused on creating ever more energy dense materials to ge…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
In order to solve the short supply of vegetable during the Covid-19 pandemic, this project sets up a aquaponics system based on the artificial intelligence in family environment by using cle…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Oil spills pose significant threat to all environmental, political, economic aspects in global settings. However, current oil absorbents that are most commonly used are made of polypropylene…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences
Lichens are little researched organisms with much potential as some studies show that they have antibacterial activity. They only grow in select places with unpolluted air and water, thus it…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Since the mass haunt of jellyfish due to global warming causes serious damage to many fishing grounds, a method of resourceization using the adhesive component of jellyfish gelatin was inves…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Antibiotic resistance is a global problem projected to kill 10 million each year by 2050. The CDC lists Neisseria gonorrhoeae among the most urgent threats in this area due to its widespread…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Every year in the United States, 133 billion pounds of food waste is produced, of which 68% is potentially edible. At the same time, 35.2 million people in the U.S. struggle with food insecu…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project investigates porous concrete as a potential mitigation tactic for the surface runoff of tire wear particles (TWP). To maintain grip on the road, a tire gradually wears down its…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
3D printing also known as additive manufacturing is an area of technology that has been on a rapid rise in recent years. Through the use of 3D printing it has become easier to manufacture an…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
CO2 has great effect on the environment , the aim of the project is to reuse CO2 in cement industry to decrease its effect as greenhouse gas as well as using the waste from marble cutting an…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Applications of machine learning (ML) to the cancer pathology field will lead to earlier and more accurate cancer diagnosis. Cancer must be treated in its early stages for the treatment to b…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Award
The CRISPR Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex is well known for its precise gene editing abilities. Catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) also has diverse applications, including base editing, C…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Printable inks, both synthetic and soy-based, require chemical separation during the recycling process resulting in contaminated wastewater and the release of dangerous volatile organic comp…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
The future of food production involves physiological growing adaptions to nutrients that will increase the nutritional value of crops. This study tests the ability of lettuce biofortificatio…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
An ever-changing hazardous natural phenomenon – called a rip current – causes numerous fatal accidents all over the world. To address this problem, I use an image processing algorithm to det…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics
The purpose of this paper is to express Robinson-Schensted correspondence in two different ways, Schensted’s algorithm and a geometric interpretation by Viennot, and compare and prove differ…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
RoboBall aims to respond to the lack of high quality training facilities and coaching that regional soccer players have access to; the impact of these inequities between regional and metro p…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
I. REASONS TO CHOOSE THE TOPIC + There are many disabled people in the world. + There are a number of technological products for people with disabilities such as robotic arms that use brain…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Plastic pollution is a major pandemic for the environment. For the last 27 years, over 9.5 million volunteers have collected 163 million pounds of garbage from more than 330,000 miles of coa…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
There are 5 outbreaks that have happened in 2019, which have been estimated to have caused over 400 illnesses and waste over 500,000 pounds of food in the US. The current system of treating…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
The purpose of the Rotating Weekly Pill Dispenser is to assist with medication compliance among older people and allow a caregiver to lock medication into organized compartments that automat…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Observations indicate that offset inner-eyewall of the double eyewall typhoons would rotate counterclockwise inside the outer eyewalls. The rotation results in a trochoidal track when the ty…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeast) as a model organism, this research aims to study the Hog1 pathway in yeast and consequently mammalian homologous p38, which are SAPKs in contro…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
There are many industrial accidents caused by mechanical jamming. I thought that if workers work remotely in another secure space, not directly in a dangerous workspace, this problem could b…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Every year in California, broken utility poles and conductors ignite approximately 500 fires. In 2017 and 2018, four utility-caused fires destroyed 27,000 buildings, killed 133 people, and c…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
On average, about 25,000 tons of sanitary waste is released daily. Due to the lack of proper disposal, these are found dumped in open areas and sometimes in the water bodies, leading to envi…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
According to the Puerto Rico Police Bureau, from March 15 to May 6, 2020, 919 incidents of gender violence were reported, most of them against women. Taking advantage of technology, we can p…