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ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Vaping runs rampant among adolescents, the so-called" vaping epidemic is a pertinent issue for today's youth. Vaping delivers high levels of nicotine into the body of our children. This can…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Film, a key medium for early childhood development, utilizes musical and technical aspects to convey emotions to a young audience. While past studies have established the importance of music…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
Mosquitoes are organisms whose lives are closely related to the lives of humans. Therefore, research related to the diseases that mosquitoes spread and their unique physiology is important t…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
In today’s world, electric cars have a more prominent role within society, they provide numerous benefits such as instantaneous torque, thereby eliminating the outdated exponential torque cu…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Respiratory diseases such as COVID-19 and influenza predominantly spread through small micron-sized particles that have the ability to stay aloft in indoor air spaces for minutes to hours. O…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
According to the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Foundation, over 70,000 people across the globe suffer from CF, and the life expectancy of patients with CF drops to about the age of 44. CF is an autos…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Heavy metals from wastewater pose a severe threat to human and environmental health. Particularly, within the regional Tri-State Mining District (Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma), lead and zi…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
PAWE converts manually controlled wheelchairs into electrically powered wheelchairs. PAWE attaches onto most standard manual wheelchairs by sliding onto rods. The rods are attached to the wh…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Thraustochytrids are common marine protists that live throughout the ocean, but most notably in coral mucus. Because they produce high amounts of polyunsaturated fatty acids such as DHA, the…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
The demand for Lithium-ion batteries is rapidly increasing due to urgent needs for effective renewable energy storage. Particularly, attention has shifted towards thick electrodes, as they o…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Enterococci is a bacteria that is found in animal feces and is used by scientists as a measure of water quality. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) associates high enterococci colony…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
The high power model rocketry field has become very paint-by-numbers. Enthusiasts are encouraged to buy a kit, put it together, buy a motor, launch it and recover it by parachute to earn a c…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Wild Turkeys have predominantly been found in southern Minnesota until recent observations in NE Minnesota. Turkeys rely on having less than one foot of snow on average all winter long (Rusc…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
The question of the existence of extraterrestrial life has been a long-standing aspiration of humanity. Studying the physical, geological, and chemical conditions of exoplanets will advance…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
The recent discovery of the natural product Pannokin D (a benzoxanthone-type diprenylated flavonoid with cytotoxic properties and the rare biochemical capability of overcoming tumor necrosis…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Geopolymer concretes are an innovative and sustainable alternative to traditional concrete, characterized by their use of lower amounts of energy and raw materials, whilst having durable che…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
The purpose of this experiment was to identify if the L form of beta-hydroxybutyrate has unique anticancer effects compared to the D form, on the proliferation of cancer cells. It was hypoth…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry
Silver Nanoparticles are important tools in the nanoscience, nanotechnology, and nanomedicine fields. They are also used in many consumer products and food packaging. Studies are beginning t…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Each year now, Luxembourgish wildlife is threatened by toxic Cyanobacteria that poisons the water of the biggest lake, The Upper Sure Lake, causing the local tourism sector to be slowed due…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Loading a trailer improperly may cause dangerous sway, resulting in accidents and possible death. I researched and tested how to most safely haul a trailer to reduce sway. I focused on two m…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The provision of clean pollutant-free water is one of the great challenges facing humanity. Therefore, this study was conducted to prove the ability of date palm tree waste: leaf, stalk, and…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry
Diseases caused by insects are a public health problem, especially in tropical regions. From this perspective, there is tucum mirim (Astrocaryum acaule Mart.), a typical fruit from the cerra…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Cancer is one of the deadliest illnesses in the world, and to find a cure for cancer, information must be obtained on the human body’s response to tumors. The purpose of this study was to id…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Clean and safe drinking water is essential for human life, but unfortunately, many people around the world don’t have access to it. The slow sand filter is one method many people in developi…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Turmeric has been applied to a bleeding wound because of its antibacterial property and fast healing quality. But applying dry turmeric is significantly messier and troublesome to carry in a…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Genome instability, an enabling hallmark of cancer, drives carcinogenesis. Genomic stability depends upon the ability of the cell to exercise the DNA Damage Response and to repair its damage…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cancer metastasis poses a significant threat to global public health, accounting for an estimated 90% of cancer-related deaths, due to a lack of effective anti-metastatic agents. The overexp…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
People with partial or total visual disabilities suffering from a problem while writing on the traditional smartphone keyboard due to the inability to distinguish between letter buttons that…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
The world is scrambling for renewable and environmentally friendly biofuels in the hopes of omitting fossil fuels that have harmed the earth. The environmental impacts of these malicious fue…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Aim To develop a novel Natural Language Processing tool to detect depression early based on users’ social media activity. Methods and materials A corpus of 50,000 text data samples from post…