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ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Since the pandemic, online chess has seen unprecedented growth in its user base. This growth is largely due to players being unable to convene physically in quarantine and wanting to play ga…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
There has been a rise in water pollution with nitrates over the past few years. Currently, there is no cost-effective option for the detection or filtration of nitrates in water, since the c…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
During a menstruating person’s lifetime, over 11,000 disposable menstrual products and their packaging are sent to landfills. Recent advances in textiles have made reusable fabric menstrual…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Third Award
HABs have plagued waterways causing significant losses to Florida's economy. Currently, algal bloom data collection is reactionary and inadequate, following regional fish kills. Algal mitiga…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) guarantees reducing the cost of space cooling in a variety of applications. However, commercialization issues still exist for the production of PDRC…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Nowadays, the world is producing twice as much plastic waste as two decades ago, with the bulk of it ending up in landfill, incinerated, or leaking into the environment. Only 9% were success…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics Fourth Award
The Bernoulli Quadri-section Problem involves the division of the area of a given triangle into four equal areas, a triangle and three quadrilaterals, using two perpendicular straight lines.…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Birth defect screenings are traditionally performed on live animals, exposing pregnant mothers to harmful toxicants. However, this method is ethically problematic and requires the sacrifice…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
The next generation of space exploration requires more efficient propulsion. Current rockets use bell-shaped nozzles, which lose efficiency at high altitudes due to flow underexpansion. This…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
This project was created to aid patients who have a potential risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and/or glioblastoma brain tumors due to genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors. In…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences
The Fijian white-footed ant, Technomyrmex vitiensis or T. vitienis, native to Southeast Asia and some Pacific islands, has become a serious pest in American Samoa. It can reach high densitie…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Lignification and lignin biosynthesis is an innate immune response in plants to pathogens attempting to enter the cell wall. When pathogens successfully penetrate the cell wall, it damages t…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Children with social and emotional learning suffer daily with conversation due to the lack of social interaction in the classroom setting. The purpose of the project was to create a robot to…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Determining neuronal identity in imaging data is an essential task in neuroscience, facilitating the comparison of neuronal activity across organisms. Cross-organism comparison, in turn, ena…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
With just 5% survival rates, pancreatic cancer continues to be one of the deadliest cancers in the world. Studies have discovered that an increase in polyamine concentration in biofluids cor…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
With atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations exceeding critical thresholds, the Earth’s climate and ecosystems face irreversible damage. To date, the power sector is responsible for 41% of…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Animal venoms consist of toxin peptides and proteins, and drugs derived from venoms are unique in their ability to interfere with key biological processes in the body, such as blood clotting…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Currently, there is no objective diagnostic tool for Parkinson’s disease, a progressive neurological disorder that affects more than ten million people globally. Specialists use visible symp…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Ocean acidification is the evil twin of global warming! When carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ocean, it shifts the pH of the water to neutral. This phenomenon leads to detrimental damage to…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
Currently, long-distance jet engines emit large amounts of carbon dioxide, harming the environment and fueling the effects of climate change. Last year, we proposed an electric design for a…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Individuals with limited hand motor function after neurological injury are often unable to return to an independent lifestyle, even after rehabilitation. Using flexible PLA (fPLA) and PLA to…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
Most drugs function by binding to a “target” receptor, activating or inhibiting the “target” signal transduction pathway, which, in ~50% of drug trials, fails to occur, leading to low effica…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry Second Award
Parkinson’s disease is a neurological disorder that impacts the movement control of patients due to the degeneration of neurons, reducing the dopaminergic levels in the brain. This causes sy…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
The detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI) holds the potential to greatly expand our understanding of the universe and our place within it. A planetary science-based approach for t…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have many real-world aircraft applications, including intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, search, and rescue, wh…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Over the last few decades, many breast cancer patients have become disease-free due to the advancements in detection, diagnosis, and treatment. However, cancer can come back for almost 30% o…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Quadcopters have many uses like delivering packages and search-and-rescue, due to easy maneuverability. However autonomous quadcopters are difficult to control since 4 motor inputs control 6…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Remote sensing technologies have revolutionized the ability to detect and classify tree species. This is vital for sustainable management and conservation, and especially early detection and…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Orbital debris are known to pose a severe threat of damage or destruction to orbital assets such as communications satellites and the International Space Station. NASA estimates that there a…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry First Award
Safeguarding food quality and safety is essential to people's livelihoods. Over recent years, the ingestion of food-borne pathogens and their related metabolic toxins increasingly affects pu…