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ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Heart disease is a broad term that encompasses various heart conditions. It is also the leading cause of death both in the United States and globally. This disease claims millions of lives e…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger is widely used in high-pressure industrial applications such as petrochemical processing and offshore oil rigs. This study examines the thermal performance…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
As global warming and climate change intensify, our planet continues to deteriorate. One of the most well-known ways of combating this problem is renewable energy sources. In many cases, ren…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Electrical outlets can overheat due to faults or overloading, often without any visual warning before failure or fire. While thermochromic materials have been widely applied in temperature i…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
The purpose of this project was to design polyimide-taped high entropy alloys (HEAs) to shield ionizing radiation. It was hypothesized that if the thickness of each HEA is increased, then th…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
Excessive bleeding from trauma accounts for about 40% of major global mortality causes, showing the importance of effective bleeding control. Powdered hemostatic agents offer many advantages…
ISEF · 2025
Chemistry
As the climate crisis demands cleaner and more efficient energy systems, hierarchically self-assembled nanostructures are emerging as promising tools for sustainable technologies. Hierarchic…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Supermassive black hole accretion disks, predicted to emit optical continuum from regions spanning light-hours, remain challenging to resolve via traditional reverberation mapping (RM) techn…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Compared to common open-loop stepper motors, 3-Phase synchronous motors can deliver superior responsiveness, repeatability, and speed with minimal noise, wear, and heat. Brushless DC (BLDC)…
ISEF · 2025
Chemistry
Electrochemical CO2 reduction to C2 hydrocarbons has been intensively studied as a promising approach for utilizing CO2 emissions and meeting the high demand for ethanol and ethylene as valu…
ISEF · 2025
Chemistry
One common environmental activity at school is collecting and sorting old batteries for recycling. However, it is just the first step of the treatment process for lithium-ion batteries, whic…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Some objects can transform between multiple geometric configurations when you interact with them. These systems, known as deployable structures, have significant applications in space techno…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software
Heart murmurs are abnormal sound signals generated by turbulent blood flow and are closely associated with specific structural heart disorders. Current murmur analysis methods only look towa…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Keeping our homes safe is more important than ever, and technology can help make security smarter and more convenient. This project introduces a smart home security alarm system designed to…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Falls cause serious injury and even death, according to the World Health Organization (2021). According to CHUBB (2020) most falls in the home occur when climbing on a chair or ladder. This…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Three-hundred and eighty three children have died in school shootings since the devastating Columbine high school tragedy. Exsanguinating hemorrhage is the main cause of death from gunshot w…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Global warming is a significant environmental threat, and vehicles contribute to it greatly. This project not only aims to design a power supply that does not contribute to global warming bu…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Microplastics are widespread pollutants that pose risks to human health. Caenorhabditis elegans, a small nematode with a simple nervous system, is commonly used in biological research to ass…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
For my Science fair project, I investigated the cleanliness of public restrooms, specifically finding which area was the grossest. My hypothesis was that door handles would be the dirtiest s…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Columnar jointing is a well-known feature of frozen magma flows. World-famous examples include the UNESCO world heritage site, the Giant's Causeway, UK. Columnar jointing can be divided into…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
This project tested which prosthetic materials are habitable for human epithelial cells, primarily to determine if a prosthetic could integrate with the body. Three mesh materials (stainless…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software
With extreme heat events becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change, accurate temperature prediction is critical for preparedness and risk mitigation. Traditional offline models…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
ABSTRACT: The HYDROCULT project aims at transforming the kinetic energy generated by passing vehicles into usable energy for producing molecular hydrogen, eliminating the need for batteries…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With the accelerated need for clean energy sources, hydrogen stands at the forefront of widespread adoption. Hydrogen leaks are difficult to detect due to the lack of odor, near invisible fl…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Fresh water is earth's most critical resource. Key limitations in water purification include reliance on external power, lack of between microbial disinfection and electrochemical decontamin…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Resulting from climate change and aggressive farming practices, desertification is a major threat to the environment and survival of millions, as according to the United Nations, desertifica…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
Purpose: To conserve water in space, scientists have come up with an efficient way to recycle it. While studying this, I wondered how the water would be conserved once we find a planet fit f…
ISEF · 2025
Technology Enhances the Arts
In the last decade, there have been monumental breakthroughs regarding the use of artificial intelligence in "human" fields, such as language and art. Coinciding with these developments, the…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are non-coding RNAs that bind to the coding sequences of target messenger RNAs (mRNAs), where they regulate gene expression. Mutations of miRNA binding sites within risk g…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Epigenetics is the study of how environmental stimuli affect gene expression without altering the DNA sequence. DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism in which a 5-methyl group binds to…