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ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
Traditional ballet pointe shoes are made out of materials including leather, paper, fabric, burlap, and cardboard bound with adhesive. Unfortunately, all of these materials break down over a…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
The regeneration of bone defects caused by trauma, fracture, and disease is a significant clinical challenge for patients in the United States and around the world. Annually, the cost for bo…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
The stethoscope has been one of the most important tools in medical practice for centuries but has a limit on how small of a sound it can detect. An atomic force microscope (AFM) can be used…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Optogenetics is technique that uses light to regulate biological processes in living cells. It is based on genetically engineered proteins that are activated by light. Due to high spatial-te…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Programmed Death Ligand 1, or PD-L1, is a transmembrane protein upregulated in numerous tumors. By binding to the PD-1 receptors on CD8+ T-cells, these tumors can evade T-cells’ cytotoxic ef…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
MIT researchers stimulated gamma waves in genetically modified mice brains with flashing lights to trigger microglia to clean up beta amyloid plaques (the cause of Alzheimer’s Disease). The…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
In April 2017, a US District Court overturned the exemption concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) enjoyed from air emission control rules. Odor, ammonia and/or hydrogen sulfide emis…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Egyptian Industry faces many challenges in areas such as energy production and sustainable agriculture. Many of these challenges could be tackled when our industries start operating on a…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Current wastewater treatments are complex, costly and leads to secondary pollution. Algal bioremediation is a viable alternative to removing heavy metals and toxic organic compounds from was…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Our 2016-2017 research found negative effects to radish seeds from a low-orbit, 30-day space flight and verified those results with independent treatments of beta radiation and vibration. Fo…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
Making a device to provide the appropriate environment for a large group of plant species by providing the important factors for growth and reducing the amount of water used in irrigation. A…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Third Award
Textiles have become the second most polluting industry in the environment, after petroleum. As a $772 billion field, businesses will need to find green, alternative solutions, due to the 2.…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The objective of our project is to monitor the environmental pollution of the Black Sea seaside using magnetic susceptibility measurements. We monitor: the beaches, areas adjacent to the mai…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Banana peels are a high starch fruit with a molecular composition that allows the peel to be broken down and remade into a biodegradable plastic. These plastics are an economic way to help f…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
Our project is motivated by the following property: “For four focal radii originating equiangularly from a focus of an ellipse, the sum of their squared reciprocals is a constant.” We genera…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Hot Springs National Park implemented controlled burns in the old growth areas of Sugarloaf Mountain in March 2010 and February 2016 with the intention of restoring habitat for shortleaf pin…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this experiment was to test the importance of four separate factors in a hyperloop system and to see if a combination of all of the factors produced greater velocities than th…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
This study was done to establish appropriate methods for creating microcracks in concrete. Establishing these methods allow for further investigation on the factors that effect self-healing…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Topotecan (TPT) is a chemotherapeutic drug frequently used to treat lung cancer, which is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the US. However, the development of drug resistance in…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
The subject of my current development is a medical device which can keep the controlled temperature of the skin for hours. The effective part of the device is a thermo-electric cooler based…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) have greatly devastated the world’s aquatic ecosystems. Therefore, it is an objective to find a viable solution to a detrimental problem. The root of the problem…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) present a high degree of clonal heterogeneity, making it difficult to identify which cells are capable of repopulating tissues versus those more prone to underg…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
As the use of transistors have proliferated in electronic devices, much attention has been granted to the area of research in increasing their efficiency. Thin film transistors (TFT) are imp…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
Designs for scrubbers to be deployed on a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) were evaluated for speed and efficiency of removing sea growth from ship’s hulls without damaging the underlying pai…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Asymmetric synthesis is an organic chemistry field directed to the production of chiral molecules with high optical purity which constitute a large part of the drugs and agrochemicals becaus…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Copper mining is a crucial component of the overall Chilean economy. It generates high volumes of mining tails with signi?cant environmental risk and potential impacts on ecosystems. Most of…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
In the U.S., semi-trucks on average travel about 140B miles, often over hilly terrain,annually producing 1.34B metric-tons of CO2, as well as diesel-fumes, which the IARC links to cancer. El…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Third Award
Bulrush aphids, Schizaphis scirpi, colonize on leaves of cattail, Typha latifolia, while another Schizaphis species, S. acori, is usually found on leaves of calamus, Acorus calamus. Since th…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This research is to examine the directivity and the rupture direction of the 2016 M6.6 Meinong Earthquake by comparing spectrums of different directions from the epicenter. The seismic wavef…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Fatbergs are deposits of fats, oils, and greases that are formed through the same process by which soap is made. They are responsible for major sewer blockages throughout the world, and requ…