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ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness affecting nearly 300,000 people each year. The debilitating symptoms are largely unspecific save for a bulls-eye rash that only appears in…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Maintaining a healthy bee population is of vital importance to the sustainability of our planet, as bees are essential for the future of agriculture and the stability of the Earth’s food sup…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Accurate data on urban growth and on-going processes is needed to sustainably plan the expansion of cities. Satellite remote sensing has great potential for mapping urban areas regularly in…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
The detection of nitroaromatic compounds is extremely vital in many areas including military and civilian safety, chemical industry and environmental monitoring. 4-Nitrophenol (4-NP) is one…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is currently one of the deadliest cancers, with a 5-year survival rate of just 7%. Detecting PC while it is localized increases the survival rate to 30%, however to da…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Some species such as oysters can change their vital functions and/or their genetic composition, becoming bioindicators, when there are alterations in their environment. The hypothesis is: if…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The processes of water evaporation and condensation play a defining role in many atmosphere phenomena. Kinetics of condensation determines the character of the development of such phenomena…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Wyoming is the largest producer of sub-bituminous coal in the United States, and produces enough energy to provide the electricity needs for nearly half of all of the people living in this c…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
The Purpose of this experiment was to determine which has more effect on the impulse of a 3-D printed rocket (DeLaval) nozzle, throat radius or exit radius. The total impulse aids in the abi…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
Objective: To create a mathematical model which, when applied to a Major League Baseball hitter’s pitch-by-pitch data and a pitcher’s pitch selection, returns the optimal pitch selection giv…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are a promising cell source for regenerative medicine because of their unlimited proliferation capacity and ability to differentiate into any cell type. However,…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
This study evaluates the age and distances of four open cluster targets: NGC 2509, NGC 2483, NGC 2482, and NGC 6705, in order to reevaluate previous published ages and distances using modern…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a progressive, degenerative neuromuscular disorder that affects nearly 2% of the population over 65. Despite its prevalence, little is known about the etiology of…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Some crops have been genetically modified to obtain desired traits; such as pesticide-producing or drought resistant. There has been a debate on whether Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
The experiment explored whether Wolbachia bacteria are present in populations of Speyeria cybele at the Fort Indiantown Gap Military Reservation. This species is closely related to the near-…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Dethiosulfovibrio strain F2b, a new fermentative marine bacterium recently isolated from protein-rich mariculture waste, was described, and growth conditions, metabolic traits, and genetic c…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
This project's goal was to create a ‘bicycle-attached-device’ to combat the most relevant Risk Factor in traffic, namely ‘attention in traffic or a lack thereof’ This risk factor, accounting…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Statement of the Problem: Children‘s prosthetic needs are complex due to their constant growth and psychosocial development. Existing technologies for customized computer-assisted prosthetic…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Cardiotoxicity accounts for a third of withdrawn pharmaceuticals, hence evaluating drug compounds for cardiotoxicity is essential in drug development. However, primary human cardiomyocytes a…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
As information becomes increasingly digitized, it is increasingly important that we are able to securely transfer our data across global networks. Encryption has long been the most efficient…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Abelian Sandpiles have numerous contributions in the fields of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics. As they are an example of systems displaying Self-Organized Criticality, Cellular Au…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Worldwide, more than 1,300,000 people are diagnosed with and more than 450,000 die of breast cancer every year. There are several ways breast cancer can be subclassified, one of which is imm…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry Fourth Award
Current patient disease diagnosis relies on observed symptoms rather than specific genetic information, resulting in low objective response rates as well as expensive and ineffective treatme…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical
The world is currently dependent on fossil fuels (which are damaging to the environment) for energy. To solve this problem, renewable resources must be used and be made more efficient so tha…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
Many birds die each year due to broken wings. The current method of repairing broken wing bones is called “pinning”. It involves inserting a pin through the hollow center of the bird bone an…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical
This multiphase project explores the feasibility of harvesting electrical energy from aeroelastic flutter through the piezoelectric effect. This research responds to the growing demand for a…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Flexible and ultrasensitive nanoelectronic biosensors have many potential applications in biomedical engineering, including saliva-based in-vivo sensors and real-time sweat sensors on bare s…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
An excess or depletion of algae can devastate an ecosystem, so understanding the conditions affecting algae growth is essential for preserving a strong ecosystem. A numerical model is an eff…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
This science fair project worked to develop a solution to the problem of infeasible and inaccurate deployable pH sensors not suited for the marine environment reduce the quantity of accurate…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
On-Campus crime is a leading issue in US Colleges. US Department of Education captures data related to various types of crimes in US colleges. In my project, I wanted to leverage that datase…