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ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Research shows that approximately 10 million Americans have essential tremors. Of these 10 million, 4-5% begin tremors as young as 40 years old. There is also a 50% chance of a child inherit…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
Due to the Covid 19 pandemic and the rapid increase in cases schools, businesses and public buildings needed to introduce a system of screening and sanitizing pupils and visitors. Automated…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
A pesticide is a chemical or biological agent such as a virus or bacterium that deters or kills pests. Farmers use pesticides to protect crops from harmful insects and pests that use up thei…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
The ARTHETA-0 is a 3D printer with a novel motion system that specializes in printing vascular-stents. The stent manufacturing industry, as it stands, uses extremely inefficient and unafford…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) have been recognized as an increasingly severe threat to many communities with far-ranging consequences for environmental conditions, economic prosperity, and hum…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Fourth Award
Waste plastics are the major cause of environmental pollution due to low-recycling rates. Herein, I demonstrate the first use of waste plastics as a source of carbon nanoparticles catalysis…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The integration of A.I. into homes, workplaces and transportation has increased with the development of new technology. Voice-activation and interaction is required to use and perceive these…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Despite the fact that polar regions are classified as a pivotal position in geology and palaeoenvironment research due to the unique natural conditions and location, the extreme environment…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics First Award
The self-replicating machine will revolutionize human industry. Not only will self-replicating factories raise the standard of living across the globe, but it is also a vital step toward a s…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Electrochemical microactuators that work by using the development of gas in a miniature electrolysis cell to create pressure or generate mechanical work were studied in this paper. A number…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
In recent years, many severe and destructive wildfires have plagued the state of California. Extreme fire conditions, such as drought, that occur especially during autumn months in Californi…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Overwatering and underwatering are widespread issues with environmental, financial, and safety consequences. Current approaches to assessing grass water use efficiency (WUE) are inaccessible…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), a type of dementia, is attributed to the overproduction of the amyloid-beta (Aß) protein caused by the cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein. This project focus…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
To limit the spread of COVID-19, government policies are necessary. Current research focuses primarily on documenting proposed policies rather than assessing the efficacy of said proposals.…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The transforming growth factor beta (TGFB) superfamily consists of a group of regulatory proteins that bind to membrane receptors and generate an intracellular signal to regulate cellular pr…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Reinforcement learning is a form of machine learning that trains a digital model by associating a reward value with different actions based on how beneficial they are. Several algorithms hav…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
PURPOSE: Using the dried milk spot (DMS) method, it is possible to reveal the nutritional balance and imbalance of human breast milk and react to the needs of the new-born. We wanted to find…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Last year, 43.3 million individuals were estimated to be completely blind, while close to 300 million suffered from moderate to severe vision impairment. By 2050, these numbers are predicted…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems
In this modern age the use of computer on a regular basis in our daily life is very significant, technically, all the daily tasks revolve around the computer screens. Therefore, people who h…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
216,262,500. That’s the number of steps an average human takes over their lifetime, yet the shoes that humans use for this have not evolved over time and are found to have major flaws such a…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
In this work, I studied cas9 protein, one of the proteins of the CRISPR-Cas bacterial defense system. It was chosen because a genome editing system based on it is currently under development…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
A study of abundance and diversity of pollinators in four urban gardens in downtown Eureka Springs and two trails by Black Bass lake to be used in the local pollinator conservation effort an…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia aspires to achieve food security despite obstacles including and abundance of desert ranges and the spread of plant diseases. Since ancient times, medicinal plant…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
This study began after contemplating the low recycling rate, which is the biggest problem of plastic, and focused on plastic cups that cannot be recycled due to the ink printed on the outsid…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increased interest in health and well-being, particularly preventing the spread of diseases. To this end, various research on anti-bacte…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
The purpose of this research is to develop an easy and inexpensive kit that detects heavy metal ions in drainage and monitors the degree of water pollution. It was assumed that Luminol’s lum…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Antibiotic pollution in soils and groundwater is one of the world’s most pressing problems. There are 1.4µg of antibiotics per-liter of freshwater and 125,000 tons of antibiotics polluted ev…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The purpose of this project is to see if Atrazine passes its negative effect on the sensory, motor, and learning behaviors of planaria to the second generation planaria. The second generatio…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
A randomized controlled trial was run over the course of a 5 week period on 40 high school students to investigate the effects of simulation racing (SR) on attentional control. Prior researc…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software Fourth Award
With the inherent interconnectivity of online communications comes the presence of disinformation. While the utilization of disinformation by individuals is harmful, the tactic is worse when…