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ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
Expanding the applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) requires overcoming limitations in flight endurance imposed by current battery energy densities and adverse weather conditions l…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Wind energy is cubically proportional to wind velocity. As altitude increases, wind velocity not only significantly increases but also becomes more consistent in direction and intensity. How…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics
We introduce the slice rank polynomial method with its origins from the Cap Set problem and focus on two applications. We look into colorings of R^n with no more than 2^O(n) monochromatic eq…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a heterogeneous malignancy characterized by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal B-cells in the lymphatic system. The activated B cell (ABC) subtype p…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Over 300 million people around the world are color blind and at least 2.2 billion have a visual impairment. Which is why this project aims to help the visually impaired so individuals can no…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Modern electrical systems rely heavily on sensors and relays for fault detection in three-phase transmission lines and distribution transformers. However, these devices often suffer from hig…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award
Global food security and sustainability issues, and rapid urbanization call for high-tech, space-efficient, sustainable urban farming technologies. In Singapore, only 3.9% of vegetables cons…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
This study aims to discover how IoT devices and trash bins can be used in conjunction with one another to discover trends in trash generation and minimize trash overflow. Using an Arduino mi…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Climbing robots are a potential solution for exterior maintenance, inspection and replacement of urban pipe systems, column buildings and pole structures. In response to the space limitation…
ISEF · 2024
Systems Software Third Award
This work developed an accessible software for the development of 3D-printed prostheses for people with partial hand loss. Partial hand loss is the most prevalent form of amputation among up…
ISEF · 2024
Microbiology Third Award
Diabetes poses a significant global health challenge, emphasizing the urgent need for insulin. Insulin costs a quite demanding as it is needed every year through one's lifetime. Meanwhile, s…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
As the occurrence of cancer becomes more prevalent, scientists are eagerly encouraged to investigate means of combating the disease. After identifying the overabundance of L-type amino acid…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics
Math helps us in solving physical, biological, chemical and everyday problems which require the use of high degree polynomial equations. Unfortunately, solving these types of equations is no…
ISEF · 2024
Systems Software First Award
A fundamental class of problems in mathematical optimization is second-order cone programming (SOCP), which provides a generalized framework to solve problems in a wide range of fields. Whil…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cataracts, the decomposition of crystallins found in the lens of the eye, are increasingly common among today's population of aging and diabetic patients. Photosensitive medications can incr…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a highly contagious, fatal prion disease found in cervids, which has resulted in their decline; specifically, whitetail deer and mule deer. Data (sex, specie…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Synthetic dyes used by the fashion industry pollute aquatic ecosystems and contribute to the bioaccumulation of toxic compounds in organisms. Natural dyes are alternatives to synthetics whos…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plays a pivotal role in modern packaging and textile industries, contributing to over 350 million tons of global production annually. Despite its widespread…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Spidersonde is a revolutionary ground launch sonde system that implements spider’s ballooning mechanics to collect meteorological in-situ data critical in accurately forecasting Tropical Cyc…
ISEF · 2024
Systems Software
With the need for collecting and analyzing large-scale data dramatically increasing in the big data era, researchers and companies have begun to rely on crowdsourcing platform workers to ann…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The recent rise of foundation models has been shown to have immense power in pattern recognition and performing "zero-shot" predictions. A key field that could greatly benefit from leveragin…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Coral reefs, containing over 25% of marine species, are vital ecosystems that support a diverse array of life and provide crucial resources for sustenance, supplying food for over 1 billion…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Conventional architectures such as the Transformer struggle to scale to very long sequences of over 10 000 steps. Promisingly, recent advances in sequence models based on the Structured Stat…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars that serve as the most precise clocks in the universe. Millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which have a spin period of less than 10 ms, are espe…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Advancements in human machine interface and human motion monitoring require effective real-time pressure sensing to provide enhance interactive capabilities and enable smart feedback systems…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Polystyrene, commonly known as Styrofoam, is a major environmental concern due to its non-degradability and low recyclability. This experiment explored the potential of using D-limonene, a t…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) remains the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women. It has recently been demonstrated that stimulator-of-interferon genes (STING) is highly…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Population aging increases the occurrence of chronic heart disease characterized by decrease of cardiomyocyte number and their contractility. The absence of natural heart self-repair mechani…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Our body has many ways to defend itself against foreign pathogens with the first defense being our innate immune system. Among the many different substances that can improve our immune syste…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The fashion industry heavily relies on synthetic dyes, causing 20% of industrial water pollution and health risks due to toxic chemicals like lead and arsenic. Most factories, mainly in deve…