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ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
The goal of my project was to determine if I can detect the epicenter of an earthquake using lissajous patterns created by a two dimensional pendulum. By doing so, scientists would be able t…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
In-vitro fertilization has been linked with a small but statistically significantly increased risk of mental retardation. With a such rapidly expanding field, that slight increased risk resu…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Lyme disease is a serious illness that affects approximately 300,000 people in the United States alone every year. It causes joint pain, arthritis, weakness, fatigue, and more seriously, cog…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease. Dengue virus is transmitted by female mosquitoes mainly of the species Aedes aegypti and to a lesser extent, Aedes albopictus. With more than…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this experiment is to develop an app that can take a picture of a patient’s ear and successfully diagnose the presence of ear infection (otitis media) automatically, without t…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative, fatal brain disease characterized by impairments in memory, language, reasoning, and cognition. Identifying AD in its earliest stages of Mild…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are machine learning systems that can classify images. Applying CNNs to medical images for recognizing different types of skin lesions can ultimately cre…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
CRISPR-Cas systems are the adaptive immune systems of bacteria and archaea. CRISPR systems allow cells to develop immunological memory by storing information from foreign DNA in the bacteria…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The objective of the research was to generate the orbital elements of the asteroid 1999 LO28 in order to better study its orbit and assess its potential threat for planetary collision. To ac…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
On 10th February 2009, a satellite, Iridium-33, and a space debris, Cosmos-2251, unprecedentedly collided, producing more than 2000 cataloged space debris. Collisions like this and the ones…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Honeybees are essential for pollination of deciduous fruit crops and honey production. Globally, in the context of food security, there has been increasing attention to the survival and sust…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Harmful Algae Blooms (HAB) have caused over 1 billion dollars in ecological damages coupled with the dangerous environmental problem of perpetuating non-natural mitigation methods that destr…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Today, transportation vehicles depend greatly on gasoline and diesel as fuels with their respective engines for mobility. Both engines have negative properties that contribute to leading to…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
Algae biofuels have great potential to become a viable fuel source and replace non-renewable hydrocarbons such as petroleum and coal. A major difficulty in producing algal fuel is the extrac…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
More than 2 of every 100 Americans will require a joint replacement, as the population is surviving longer new strains on the human body are discovered. Knee replacements are required when t…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Every year, over 38 billion tons of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere due to various human related activities. With excess CO2 production, many critical problems arise such as…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
This science fair project worked to develop a solution to the problem of infeasible and inaccurate deployable pH sensors not suited for the marine environment reduce the quantity of accurate…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems First Award
The project is inspired by my late grandfather, who had limited manual dexterity caused by a stroke. He was unable to shave independently, thus requiring continuous care. Consequently, I set…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Third Award
When the first iPad came out I instantly wanted to be able to create illustrations freely from anywhere I am. After the introduction of high resolution displays working with vectors instead…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Throughout the history of drug discovery, an enzymatic-based approach for identifying new drug molecules has been primarily utilized. Recently, protein-protein interfaces that can be disrupt…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Purpose: Diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that damages the light-sensitive retina, affects an estimated total of 93 million people globally. As one of the leading causes of blindness, it…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) enables density measurements of objects that deflect light passing through a medium, given that the medium and object are transparent (eg. hot air flowing…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Computer use has become an essential of everyday life, as they are used throughout most modern industries such as banks, factories, schools, stores, emergency services, military, and governm…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
In order to study and understand biological processes, it is necessary to be able to track intracellular interactions between molecules. Fluorescent proteins are often fused onto a protein o…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Fungal pathogens are a major cause of crop damage. In these fungi, Cdc14 could be a critical phosphatase for regulating cell division by ending the mitotic process, as demonstrated by studie…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) are of growing concern in the healthcare market because they lead to a 6% mortality rate, increase the average length of stay for a patient from five to tw…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Current methods of retrieving DNA from killer whales in the wild include the use of biopsy darts, which are invasive and potentially deleterious to the animal. Developing technology could al…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems Third Award
Blindness affects nearly 40 million people, a value expected to double before 2050. With a world incredibly dense with visual information, surviving and thriving can be hard, as a Visually I…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
This interdisciplinary study employs a novel computer vision algorithm with a cellulosic biocomposite for the rapid classification and elimination of water contaminants. In-lab water diagnos…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the world. Atherosclerosis, the buildup of plaque on artery walls, is the precursor to many cardiovascular diseases. Unfortunately,…