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ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The 2023 Maui wildfires were detrimental to Hawaii’s community. However the Flame Retardants used to slow the flames, were just as detrimental to human and environmental health. The goal was…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Despite the Earth’s abundance of salt water, water access remains one of the greatest global challenges, underscoring the urgent need to improve technologies for desalination treatment. Elec…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
My research examines if the Krebs Cycle molecules could be formed in the simulated interstellar medium, which would support the extraterrestrial origin of life theory. This theory suggests t…
ISEF · 2024
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The intestines are a crucial part of the digestive system, aiding in digestion and nutrient absorption. They feature a columnar barrier of intestinal epithelial cells, called the intestinal…
ISEF · 2024
Materials Science
Damselflies exhibit a variety of distinctive colors and patterns. Among the limited number of animal species changing body coloration, the blue-tailed damselfly, Ischnura elegans, stands out…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences
The escalating costs of traditional farming has spurred interest in investigating alternative cultivation methods, such as hydroponics. My project aims to compare the efficiency of horizonta…
ISEF · 2024
Systems Software
Primary care physicians must determine which questions to ask and which tests to run to arrive at their diagnosis. Current AI architectures are not suited for such diagnoses because they (1)…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
No practical method of treating greywater has been integrated into agriculture. The purpose of this research was to develop a hydroponic filter that increases the ecological sustainability o…
ISEF · 2024
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva(FOP) is an extremely rare and debilitating bone disorder that affects 0.00005% of the population. The defining characteristic of FOP is severe heterotop…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequently diagnosed disease among women, with 2.3 million new cases and 669,000 deaths identified in 2022 alone. Most studies on epigenetic diagnosis biomarke…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Obesity is a detrimental disease that causes individuals to suffer higher risks for developing cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and cancer. Recently, a population study found that a loss o…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
This project investigated the extent to which fertilizer alters the pH and dissolved oxygen levels of freshwater. For pH testing, I used a Wide Range pH Indicator solution with 10mL of sampl…
ISEF · 2024
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Humanity is always looking for the next fix, and because of this we have created and used many different substances. In this study nicotine, vaporizer liquids, and CBD oils were tested to se…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the effects of ozone pollution on the health and physiological development of food crops. Ozone pollution will have an effect on the health and…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Around the world, men and women suffer from several types of breast cancer, among them being triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). TNBC lacks targeted therapy; therefore, it's commonly treat…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The growing popularity of short-form videos has put forth the need to understand the impacts of these types of media on different groups of audiences. Within the existing literature, most st…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In recent years, social media has become one of the most popular ways for people to connect virtually. However, this rapid surge in its use has brought to light its capability to become an a…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In recent decades, infertility rates have risen globally, with 11% of women and 9% of men experiencing decreased fertility. Studies pertaining to male fertility are abundant, yet studies of…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The process of disposing of expanded polystyrene (EPS) is by burning it in municipal incinerators. This process gives off EPS microplastics, which can find their way into water, food, blood,…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Approximately 350 million people worldwide suffer from osteoarthritis, with 80% of the population aged 65 and above suffering from joint diseases, particularly knee osteoarthritis, which bri…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
The star formation rate (SFR)-stellar mass (M*) relation of galaxies has long been a subject of research interest in astronomy. Why do galaxies with similar stellar masses have different sta…
ISEF · 2024
Microbiology
I conducted this experiment to observe the air quality in agricultural settings once learning how unsafe the air pollution has become in these environments. I tested the air quality by placi…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
The neurodegenerative disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is characterized by progressive motor neuron (MN) degeneration leading to muscular atrophy (Scaricamazza et al., 2021). Th…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics Fourth Award
Hensel’s Lemma is the foundation of p-adic number theory and, as discovered in this study, a possible way to revolutionize the math behind elliptic curve cryptography. It works by lifting a…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this project was to test if caffeine had any effects on people's short-term memory, also testing to see if you could simulate the effects of caffeine using a placebo. If caffe…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Music streaming has enabled music choice to transition from a collective social listening experience to a personalized one. This research, for the first time, relates the two facets of music…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig’s Disease, is an extremely damaging neurodegenerative disorder that attacks the motor system, which gradually weakens and wastes m…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
Osteosarcoma (OS), a primary bone tumor, arises from an imbalance in the bone remodeling pathway which fosters metastasis. In healthy bones, the microenvironment supports balanced remodeling…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest diseases in the world. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are an important component of the tumor microenvironment (TME) and important immune-nega…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Deficit in learning and social skills during the COVID-19 pandemic causes a decrease in personal development (PD) among adolescents. Thus, we developed The RIGHT Model based on Cognitive Beh…