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ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Agricultural tile drainage, a method of providing drainage for fields, can cause large amounts of nutrients to be leached out of fields. Nutrients can be absorbed into the rainwater, which i…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
According to World Health Organization, by 2030, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths annually. One of the most critical factors leading to increased c…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
2 billion people lack access to safe, clean drinking water in their homes. Of those, 8 out of 10 lacking basic drinking water services live in remote or rural areas without coordinated water…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Clean water scarcity and food waste management are major environmental concerns worldwide. Food wastes are rich in bioactive compounds that are currently being disposed of in landfills, gene…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Particulate matter (PM) is one of the biggest factors endangering human health, which leads to millions of premature deaths. Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is an aerosol formed by multiple…
ISEF · 2023
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 · 2023
Chemistry Third Award
Plastic accumulation is an increasing threat to the natural environment, therefore it is imperative that degradable polymers are developed as an alternative to standard petroleum-based plast…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
World hunger is a growing issue and affects up to 820 million people globally. Although there are increasing efforts to increase sustainability, approximately ? of food produced globally is…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems Third Award
The utility of inexpensive radio-controlled drones has never been clearer than during the present conflict in Ukraine. Remote-controlled aircraft—quadcopters, small planes, and even balloons…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Aortic aneurysms have increased in the past two decades and affect about 2.9 million people. Although surgical treatments have become increasingly sophisticated, there is a lack of efficient…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Our world is headed toward a severe climate crisis: predicted to rise 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next two decades. Carbon dioxide represents 80% of polluting greenhouse gas emissions (412…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry
Development of drug resistance is a great challenge in cancer treatment as existing chemotherapeutics become ineffective after some time. For this project, human breast cancer cells MCF-7 Wt…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are two types of hematologic malignancies with especially poor prognoses and limited therapeutic options. Notably, mutations i…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology Second Award
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a gram-negative opportunistic pathogen involved in several human diseases such as cystic fibrosis. This bacterium is highly resistant to antibiotic treatments due t…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Disabled people experience difficulties in many areas of daily life. The main reason for these difficulties is the great gap in the research about the solutions to the daily life problems of…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The Tesla or bladeless turbine, developed by Nikola Tesla in 1913, has a cost-efficient and simple design. The tangential flow of a fluid and its viscosity interacting with the turbine’s dis…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Due to the inefficiencies of silicon solar cells, scientists developed perovskite solar cells that are 20% more effective. Unfortunately, they are environmentally harmful and contain lead io…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Water pollution is an issue that affects living organisms worldwide. As human activity continues to increase pollution in our oceans, the livelihood of all marine creatures is affected, from…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Cord-making is a simple skill that has been used for thousands of years, yet very few people in the modern world know anything about the process. The purpose of this project was to determine…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences
The Pomacea maculata (apple snail) is a large, aquatic snail species invasive to the Southern United States. They consume large amounts of vegetation, which leads to wetland erosion as well…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Breast cancer ranks first among the most common types of cancer globally, regionally and locally, as early detection of breast cancer increases the cure and survival rate, increases treatmen…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences Third Award
As of 2021, 20.7% of Americans have reported consuming nicotine, which is known to severely decrease the viability of human sperm, accelerate the loss of eggs, and alter the respiratory syst…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Developments in microscopy imaging have allowed for in depth study of biological systems at a level never previously reached. One such method is RNA fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
Hypertension is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, affecting 1.3 billion people and attributing to 17.9 million deaths worldwide per year, making it the leading preventab…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
As climate change poses a bigger threat to the world, more and more consumers are looking to change their buying habits to become more sustainable. One industry experiencing this change firs…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment was designed to identify a correlation between mycorrhizae fungal inoculation, hugelkultur systems, and agricultural productivity. The alternative hypothesis, that a correlat…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology
In the past decade, the implementation of phenolic compounds with collagen-based biomaterials has gained increasing attentions (Liu, et. al., 2019). Phenolics have been studied as collagen m…
ISEF · 2023
Chemistry
Garcinia xanthochymus is a species of mangosteen that has exhibited medicinal properties. There are many beneficial phytochemicals found in the bark, leaves, seeds, and fruit of the plant. M…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project was to create a device that is able to extract and collect water particles from the air and be able to turn it into drinkable water. After creating a device the e…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Advancing manned space exploration and habitation may require rethinking the fundamental expectations of plant growth. Plants orient themselves through gravitropism and phototropism; or usin…