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ISEF · 2024
Technology Enhances the Arts Fourth Award
Around 1-1.5 million people became deaf in the United States later in life. How can they be taught American Sign Language (ASL)? To provide a solution to this problem, the researcher created…
ISEF · 2024
Technology Enhances the Arts
Talk to the Hand is a project that facilitates access to communication and understanding between the verbally able and the deaf blind community. Many people do not know sign language, especi…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award
By leveraging modern flight computer capabilities, I designed and flight tested an oblique wing aircraft (an efficient variable-sweep design where one wing sweeps forward and the other sweep…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Globally, 1.2 billion young people aged 15 to 24 account for 16% of the world's population. The United Nations defines youth engagement as the active involvement of young people in decisions…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Typical cancer treatments like chemotherapy are not targeted treatments and kill healthy cells along with cancer cells, causing negative side effects. Targeted cancer treatments are a soluti…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects approximately 366 million adults and 129 million children and adolescents worldwide (CHADD; Song…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry
Alzheimer's Disease is a neurodegenerative disease in which pathological Amyloid-Beta plaques of 40 amino acids (AB40) aggregate as insoluble fibrils around cells in the neocortex. It is the…
ISEF · 2024
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Breast cancer, annually affecting over 2.3 million people worldwide, is targeted in this study through the epichaperome, a network of proteins including heat shock protein 90 (HSP90). PUH71,…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
Natural products offer great promise as pharmaceuticals due to evolutionary optimization not seen in their synthetic counterparts, and because they exist beyond the reaches of most synthetic…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences
Lately, invasive Cuban treefrogs have been hurting the native ecosystem of southeastern USA, as they have been outcompeting native treefrogs, especially in urban areas, and are predators of…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In 2019 alone, there were reportedly over thirty-thousand driver related deaths and over three-million driver related injuries. Interestingly, over 60% of these deaths and around 200,000 of…
ISEF · 2024
Embedded Systems
The most significant remaining frontier of radio encompasses the band of frequencies from 300 GHz to above 30 THz, known as the terahertz (THz) gap. This range is too high to generate with s…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
In a world with more cost-saving, reusable systems in the aerospace industry than ever before, heat shields remain a largely disposable system which, in their reusable form, lack the thermal…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences
Purpose: In an effort to reduce the spread of Rapid Ohia Death, this project was to find how different fungicides (chemical, natural, and controlled) affect the chlorophyll concentration in…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
A total of 20 hemp and CBD commercial products (4 vape oils, 7 oils, 4 edibles and 5 topicals) were collected from dispensaries and CBD shops. These products were extracted by solvent extrac…
ISEF · 2024
Microbiology
In 2019, bacterial infections were estimated to be the second leading cause of death worldwide, responsible for every one in eight global deaths. More than half of these were caused by bacte…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences
Insect agriculture provides a new way of accumulating macro and micro nutrients for organisms to feed on without having the drawbacks of traditional agriculture. In order to explore the capa…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mosquito control is a fast-growing issue as cases of mosquito-borne diseases are on the rise in America. Research has shown that Lepidium sativum meal byproduct is a highly effective larvaci…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Annually, millions of lives are lost due to climate change-related factors, predominantly stemming from carbon dioxide emissions linked to fossil fuels. In this research, the development of…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics
Knot theory, counting a knot invariant for a knot L has been long studied. Using an algebraic structure called quandle, we calculate the knot invariant, in other words coloring of the knot.…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry
MDM2 amplification occurs in approximately 40 to 60% of human sarcomas such as liposarcoma. MDM2 protein, an E3 ubiquitin-ligase, negatively regulates p53, a tumor suppressor inactivated in…
ISEF · 2024
Materials Science
Currently, environmental monitoring is time-consuming, requires training, produces pollution and, due to human interference, distorted results. This is why autonomous, biodegradable, and sel…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
As STEM programs become increasingly popular, the use of coin batteries has also increased. These batteries are used to demonstrate the wonders of electricity to children. However, they come…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Absorbing aerosols represent significant uncertainties in environmental science and pose serious environmental issues worldwide, especially in urban and arid regions like the Middle East Nor…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Though water-soluble cutting oil is an essential material for metal-cutting processes, its release into the water system prompts significant contaminations. Since the emulsion of water and o…
ISEF · 2024
Embedded Systems First Award
The 10m Air Rifle competition is an ISSF Summer Olympic sport where 1mm can make the difference between winning and losing. Over 57,000 cadets in Canada train with the 853C air rifle in the…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
This research was a two-part experiment to discover new antibiotics. The first part was reacting erythromycin with morpholine and propyl amine to see if a reaction occurred. Erythromycin and…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences
Human survival and sustenance on Mars depend on sustainable agricultural practices and developing a life support system using in-situ resources. Martian regolith is sterile and devoid of org…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Waste degradation is an urgent issue that humanity must try to mitigate. Pink oyster, turkey tail, and Pestalotiopsis mushrooms are three fascinating species that have shown remarkable poten…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Diachronic linguistics is the scientific study of language and its change across time. Historically, the vast majority of research in the field has overfocused on languages with large speake…