Browse real student projects, abstracts, and awards.
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Monilia (Moniliophtora roreri) is a fungus that causes cocoa plant death. It first appeared in the Southern and Pacific regions of Costa Rica. It is considered as one of the most important l…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Lichens have been used as biological indicators of environmental pollution. As lichens show high sensitivity to air quality, hundreds of studies have linked lichen communities to air quality…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Huanglongbing (HLB) is a destructive citrus disease occurring in over 40 countries. Ever since it was recognized near Miami in 2005, this disease has spread across Florida where 70% of the n…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Liquids possess potential for use as adaptive lenses; lenses that can change their optical properties. The Double Droplet System (DDS) provides a unique type of liquid lens, one that rapidly…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Aliivibrio Fischeri is a very effective, economical, and quick method to detect toxins in water using bioluminescence. In this experiment, toxicity of water was tested using the bioluminesce…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Currently, the methods used to minimize the loss that a tsunami could cause are, for differing reasons, not effective enough. Breakwaters are also often not strong enough to combat a tsunami…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
Computers have always been a huge part of our lives, whether in desktop or mobile applications. Some think of the mobile as the future, yet with the computational power constantly evolving i…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
By doing quick measurements of the growth of simple Prokaryote bacteria, it should be possible to estimate the relative genome size. This is possible by a simple estimation of the growth rat…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
The inhibitors of apoptosis (IAP) are a group of eight human proteins thought to inhibit apoptosis (programmed cell death), promoting cellular immortality characteristic of cancer cells. The…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Many global and national recessions have been caused by or exacerbated by bank failures. The most recent economic crisis, the recession of 2008, was triggered by a banking panic. Accurately…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
In his experiment the author uses a side slip to land a model Cessna 170 in crosswind conditions. He hypothesizes that equipping aircraft with intelligent autonomous holonomic landing gear i…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Cancer is a major cause of mortality in most developed and underdeveloped countries of the world, and is now considered to be secondary only to that of myocardial infarction. It is a growing…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Interface and colloid science has produced nanoparticles with which researchers can manipulate materials at atomic, molecular or supramolecular levels. This new and extremely small investiga…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
This project was done to test which piezo element most efficiently converted the energy from a vibrational source. It was hypothesized that the V22B piezo element, with its superior design s…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
Now there are many ways to detect cancer in its early stages, but they are inaccurate and final results will be obtained through quite a long time. So it is important to find a method of dia…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The purpose of this scientific research was to build a solar panel and discover which section of the roof of a Hogan and which solar panel design absorbed the most energy to create the great…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Our project involves analyzing sets of genomic sequences and the underlying similarities and interconnected relations between them. Our project makes use of homology groups and the Smith-Wat…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Many experts agree that energy may become the most important issue that society will face in the future. As fossil fuel sources are quickly being depleted and nuclear energy has proven to be…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to create an efficient, reliable, low-cost and alternative source of energy from pine cones. Mature female Pinus coulteri cones were used in the study. In the…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
This project explores themes of an organically friendly, globally accessible product of milk to increase grain yields. The supreme concepts behind the idea to use milk are to apply carbohydr…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Hospital-acquired infections are becoming increasingly numerous and difficult to manage. There are strict regulations in most hospitals regarding infection control however these are scarce r…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Third Award
The world is heading towards an energy crisis due to the huge consumption of energy in many fields including, but not restricted to, distillation techniques. Thermal distillation technique,…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The internet as global communication platform evolved to a pillar of modern society. Increasing demand to exchange data keeps putting a fundamental question to internet service providers: Ho…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
The objective of this study was to determine the optimal flight path re-entry angle during the end-of-life of the International Space Station (ISS) that would be most effective at minimizing…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Tumor-associated lymphatics play an important role in tumor growth and metastasis. In this in vitro study, gold nanoshell (AuNS) mediated photothermolysis of lymphatic endothelial cells (LEC…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Stars originate from massive dense cores of gas and dust. Cold gas and dust in interstellar molecular clouds clump up due to turbulent motion and form regions called dark clouds that are sli…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Second Award
Many accessories and machinery have introduced for various agriculture based activities, yet nobody has introduced a Machine for bund reforming with ability to plough in Paddy field. Up to n…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Expansive land resources are required to maintain traditional horizontal axis wind turbine farms due to disadvantages imposed by the interaction of adjacent turbine wakes. Horizontal wind tu…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Asteroids that are larger than 200 meters are usually rubble piles, consisting of rocks and ice held together by gravity. If they rotate faster than about ten times per day, they will spin a…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cellular processes like motility, morphogenesis, and differentiation are heavily governed by the physical properties of the cell. For example, cellular stiffness is a primary indicator of th…