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ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Third Award
Scientists have long emphasized the importance of exercise in maintaining a healthy and balanced existence. While exercise may decrease age-related degeneration, few studies have looked at t…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Type 2 diabetes rates are on the rise due to changing lifestyles. Diabetes can cause hyperglycemic events, which can damage cells. However, how hyperglycemic damage occurs is not completely…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to further understand the impacts that growing up multilingual has on an individual's way of thinking, problem-solving, and memory. To test this question 20…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Third Award
Extensive studies have been done on the causes and consequences of aging, but the actual mechanism behind this process is only partially understood. My research on Rpd3, a homologue of mamma…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Purpose: To determine which household products would be most effective in killing or slowing the growth of mold while also comparing pH levels Hypothesis: I believe the more acidic products…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Effects of Low Levels of Radiation on Phyasrum polycephalum LEVI HRABOS, Northwestern High School, Kokomo, Indiana, 46901 The purpose of running these experiments was to determine the ef…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The transition from crawling to walking is a crowning achievement in infancy, and typically studied as a series of motor skills. Walking independently opens up a world of possibilities, allo…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Plants and certain types of fungi have the potential to have a symbiotic relationship, which is referred to as a mycorrhiza. Through research we identified that, the presence of mycorrhizal…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences First Award
The purpose is to determine if mycorrhizal fungi can protect corn plants from corn smut infections. If corn smut is exposed to the symbiotic relationships between corn plants and various myc…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Silver has long been associated with antibacterial properties, which at high enough concentrations, could prove troublesome for many aquatic organisms. In particular, when silver is dissolve…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology Third Award
Antibiotic misuse has caused bacteria to evolve resistance, raising the potential for devastating health crises. To combat antibiotic resistance, novel therapeutic alternatives seek to targe…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Although medical advancements continue to create new drugs and ways to treat and prevent cancer, an estimated one in four deaths within the US is attributed to this disease. Some studies hav…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this experiment was to investigate the effects of pitch on propeller thrust both at a constant RPM and wattage. Propellers with a 4, 5, and 6 degree pitch were tested using a…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
Today, emissions, a greenhouse gas, are a very controversial topic as many environmentalists believe they are part of the cause of global warming. In this project, I wanted to test one possi…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
This study pertains to Parkinson’s Disease patients in Hoehn Yahr stages 1 and 2 participating in a boxing based therapy called Rock Steady Boxing. Patients were given the option of particip…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
The purpose of this study is to determine a relationship between the secondhand vapor emitted from an e-cigarette (via human exhalation) and Drosophila melanogaster. Secondhand vapor is quit…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
This project aims to measure the effects of limited side stream secondhand smoke on Drosophila melanogaster. The researcher looked for changes in reproduction rate and the levels of mutation…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes progressively decreased verbal and visuospatial memory function. Previous research indicates that women are at greater ri…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology Fourth Award
Ionic silver is known to be an effective antimicrobial that is commonly used in cleaning products and to treat pathogenic infections in medicine; however, through evolution, certain strains…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
Central to evolution, fitness influences the abilities of individuals to reproduce and become more abundant in new generations. The majority of mutations with observable effects are deleteri…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
More than six million crashes were reported by the police in 2015. Almost thirty percent of the accidents in the U.S. are rear end collisions. Collisions from the rear are not only dangerous…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
Infection, inflammation, and other factors that inhibit tissue regeneration pose a major challenge in medicine. However, research on increasing regeneration capabilities, particularly in the…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Western diet has been linked with health issues, such as obesity and Alzheimer’s disease. It is vital to understand the mechanisms in which diet affects the brain in order to identify therap…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
Bumble bee (Bombus spp) populations are declining nationally and globally. There are a multitude of factors which are hypothesized to contribute to this decline such as habitat loss, pathoge…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In response to the global environmental crisis, scientists are beginning to narrow investigation upon the extraction of algae oil as a means of producing biofuel, which is commonly combined…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
The creation of corn-based ethanol fuels is an expensive process, which in some cases produces twice the emissions of a petroleum alternative -such as gasoline- over the entire life cycle of…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
I focused on trying to find a way to reduce pollution. I had heard a lot about clean environmentally friendly ways to produce power but my main focus was on fossil fuels and the harm that th…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
Microbial desalination cells (MDCs) incorporate microbial fuel cell technology and electrodialysis to simultaneously desalinate water and create renewable energy. Bacteria transfer electrons…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
In the United States alone, there is an amputee population of over two million people. Despite this, prosthetics are immensely expensive, costing up to seventy thousand dollars for the most…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
On average, 37 children die each year from heatstroke when left unattended in a closed vehicle. Although there are many products available on the market to prevent heatstroke, they are mostl…