Browse real student projects, abstracts, and awards.
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical
Our project is a unique design that proved more efficient than the traditional solar panels in capturing and storing energy from the sun.Converting solar energy to heat energy using paraffin…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
It is estimated that 1 in 6 children in the United States are affected by a developmental disability. These afflictions include Autism, Intellectual disability, and developmental delay, all…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
Sound posts are essential musical instrument components particular to the violin family that transfer string vibrations to the plates, where they resonate the instrument body to produce soun…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
The rise of terrorist organizations in the Middle East, specifically the Islamic State (ISIS), has resulted in a profound increase of lone-wolf attacks and foreign fighter recruiting. Of the…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
The autonomous driving problem is one of many fundamental challenges for developing a robot capable of navigating a path and being able to drive itself through a multitude of directions. Thi…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Significant improvements in this continuation project were made on a concept demonstration of unmanned vehicle convoys for military/commercial transportation. Last year’s study resulted in L…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
This experiment’s goal was to find which liquid had the most surface tension relative to its density out of the 7 liquids tested, which were water, milk, orange juice, maple syrup, soda, dis…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
The Brown Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis) was accidentally brought to Guam post-World War II, where it managed to extirpate numerous native species and substantially decrease the numbers of o…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
In the United States, more than 3.4 million people are visually impaired, and many more are affected by hyperopia and presbyopia. Because these conditions cause objects nearby to appear uncl…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
By modifying a number of compressors within the engine, there was a way to preserve performance and save fuel. The implementation of additional compressors compressed the air, even more, thu…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Nowadays, the fog and haze is becoming a serious global problem, but normal mask has high breathing resistance. To solve the problem, we decided to make a mask with low breathing resistance,…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
Flying wings offer an enormous potential to reduce drag and weight. Unfortunately, flying wings are significantly more critical in terms of flight stability than aircraft with tail assemblie…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
The challenge of this study is “to make a wooden CNC from scratch”. Normally, CNCs are made of metal owing to its high rigidity, however this time, I made it with wood, which is cheaper and…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Parkinson’s disease is one of the most common neurological diseases in modern society. As Parkinson’s disease continues to worsen overtime, severe symptoms, such as Parkinsonian tremors, bec…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology Third Award
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the antibacterial potential of the ginger rhizome. Ginger rhizome, commonly referred to as ginger root, was extracted with hexane, methanol…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Warming temperatures threaten alpine plant populations. Symbiotic relationships with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and dark septate endophytes (DSE) may help ameliorate abiotic climate…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
Conventional HVAC mechanisms are prone to irregular temperature distribution, creating discomfort and wastes energy. This project details the development and implementation of a standalone w…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In 2010, the pyroclastic flows from Merapi vocano (Indonesia), deviated from the track and caused a big damage and big diverification in its morphology. Related to volcanic eruption, a local…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Having in mind one of the most worrying issues of todays and future society, water polution, we intend to use banana peel in the cleaning of contaminated waters with both cationic dyes and h…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
An experiment to investigate the adsorbent capacity of tin sand from Bangka Island Indonesia toward the lead/Pb(II) ion in lead aqueous solution either non-modified sand and magnetite-coated…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
Reducing paramedic response times to five minutes could nearly double survival rates of patients experiencing life-threatening medical conditions. Maintenance of an independent lifestyle wit…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Nature has countless mechanisms to counter diseases and biological pathogens. Animals specifically have internal, external, and chemical mechanisms in place to maintain viruses and bacteria…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Cyber security is a global problem. In 2016, more than 1.3 billion user accounts were stolen using different kind of cyber attacks like phishing, social engineering etc. Login and Password a…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
WHO has suggested that bad habits cause NCDs and provided a lot of health advice but in general, the number of people with NCDs is still not optimistic. Therefore, we want to make people bec…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy First Award
When paraffin is placed on a heat source, a wisp of smoke forms. The project aims to discover some characteristics of this smoke and quantitatively explain them. First of all, the morphology…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
Alzheimer’s Paired Helical Filament (PHF) Tau is a hydrophilic, cationic, highly surface-active intrinsically disordered protein that localizes to the distal portion of axons in neurons, whe…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
This project investigates the phenomena modeled by Benford’s law. Our experimentation aims to observe the credibility of Benford’s law at multiple sample sizes, by testing the use of it with…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
North Dakota has experienced population changes in the past decades from oil production as well as Red Fiver floods of 1997 and 2011, Minot flood of 2009 and a small oil boom in the early 19…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
Diesel fuel is used for a variety of things that make our daily life possible; however, it has issues. One solution for them is Biodiesel, an eco-friendly fuel... that also has issues. Issue…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
As fossil fuel depletion continues at an exponential rate, algae biofuels appear to be the most promising alternative. The microalgae, Chlorella vulgaris, is capable of storing 30% of its dr…