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ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Can a computer program be applied to a small electromagnet so that when it is raised above a large electromagnet at different heights, the force will stay the same? The purpose of this exper…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
TSA screened more than 708 million passengers in 2015 (more than 1.9 million per day), which is 40.7 million more passengers than in 2014. A neural network is a form of machine learning that…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Self-driving cars are considered the next world-changing project for Artificial intelligence as they present the future of transportation. Although these agents are becoming more precise and…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Fungal multi-resistance refers to the capacity of fungi to multiply even with antimicrobials. The project’s objective was to identify natural substances to be used as treatment against infec…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Blindness is a severe vision impairment that cannot be corrected. Over 12 million Americans are blind or visually impaired; this will double by 2030 (CDC, 2017). Blindness causes transportat…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
In Kenya, drought conditions that are expected to persist into 2018 have left 3.4 million people severely food insecure and an estimated 500,000 people without access to water. An estimated…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer’s is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by Tau protein aggregation and amyloid beta plaque presence on neurons. Past Alzheimer’s research failed to find definitive links bet…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Modern self-driving can cost upwards of $80,000 and has multiple environmental concerns due to the pollution from lithium batteries and the greenhouse gases released by the production of the…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Doctors/Physicians are challenged with effective clinical decision making regarding the treatment plans for patients with specific conditions/symptoms. They often resort to clinical decision…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Gold (Au) mining has detrimental environmental impacts on land and water (surface and groundwater) contamination. Tailing Storage Facilities (TSF), or mine dumps, may contain multiple contam…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Due to anthropic actions, greenhouse gases, especially CO2, are released into the atmosphere, causing air pollution and increasing Earth’s temperature. Despite being a developing country sig…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this project is to design a craft that can travel through air as well as water using an invertible foil. The foil will be able to change the direction of the force being produ…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
The overall purpose of this project was to study the impact of melatonin on plant physiology. Specifically, I wanted to test the effect it had on the light dependent reactions in photosynthe…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
The ability to tell between truly random numbers and pseudorandom numbers generated by computers is important in many scientific fields and real life applications. Pseudorandom number genera…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
With the continuous rise of machine learning technology, today’s cybersecurity algorithms are faced with a new challenge; their vulnerabilities are ever-furthered by continually more advance…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
From April 2017 to October 2017, 80 advisories on the beaches of Louisiana (Department of Health 2017) have been reported. Louisiana Department of Health has recorded bacteria count througho…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
Little is known of the details of cytokinesis, despite it being one of the fundamental processes in biology. This project focused on the chemical inhibition of the cytokinesis of Penium marg…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
My project “Piezocentricity” will save time as well as lives. On August 25, 2001, a small Cessna passenger plane crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff, killing all aboard. The…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project intends to determine how much of a social media user’s interests can be predicted by Twitter’s algorithms. The idea for the project stemmed from an article detailing possible Ru…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Many people in rural, poverty-stricken areas of the globe lack reliable access to clean water and though treatment techniques exist, building the infrastructure required for a treatment plan…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Third Award
In 2017, the World Health Organization reported that there were 285 million visually-impaired people worldwide of which 39 million are completely blind. According World Access for the Blind,…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Fourth Award
As computing systems become increasingly advanced and as users increasingly engage themselves in technology, security has never been a greater concern. In malware detection, static analysis…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
In the search for Earth-like exoplanets that may harbor life, the most important factor is the elemental composition of the region of development. Exoplanets often form in planetary nebulae,…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs), which are fatal to aquatic ecosystems, human health, and water-reliant industries, largely occur because of an unnatural increase of Nitrate and Phosphate and ar…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The purpose of this project is to determine whether two-mode squeezing (TMS) can be used for photon-number-resolving detectors (PNRDs) to generate an accurate photon count. We envisioned the…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes progressively decreased memory functions. Nearly 44 million people have AD worldwide. Moreover, AD cannot be prevented, c…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The purpose of this research is to create a new non-intrusive allergy test, that is less expensive, more time efficient, and can provide an alternative for not only the general majority of p…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software First Award
Medical errors caused by a lack of interoperability between healthcare entities are the third leading cause of deaths in United States, with a reported 250,000 deaths in the past year alone.…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The number of amputees is rapidly increasing worldwide with more than a million amputations annually. Unfortunately, the usage rates of upper-limb prosthetics remain as low as 27% to 56% in…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology Fourth Award
Kefir is fermented milk that is formulated with grains containing various bacteria and yeasts that coexist. In this study, the researcher has investigated the pro-apoptotic nature of kefir a…