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ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
The total generation of solid waste in the US is 292.4 million tons/year, EPA (2024), and its processing requires the use of one of the least efficient vehicles on the road, the garbage truc…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Purpose: Design a vacuum unit suitable for integration into multiple water heating systems to prevent the waste of cold water that comes first when we want to use hot water in the taps in th…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Oil pollution on water surfaces remains a critical environmental challenge, with over 20 million liters of oil discharged into aquatic ecosystems each year. These spills endanger marine life…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Pumped storage hydropower (PSH) is a battery free, energy storage system that uses the potential energy of water to generate hydroelectric power. Our hypothesis was that we would be able to…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Recent discoveries like GJ 9827 d's water-rich atmosphere have brought to light an understudied class of exoplanets—water worlds. The discovery of water in this exoplanet atmosphere simultan…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a significant climate phenomenon with far-reaching impacts on global weather patterns, ecosystems, and economies. This study aims to enhance ENSO f…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Oil spills pose serious threats to marine ecosystems, disrupting biodiversity and causing widespread environmental and economic damage. Conventional cleanup techniques—such as booms, skimmer…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
The continuous monitoring of human physiological health without the presence of a doctor has been a recent subject of innovation. A popular method for detecting various factors involves anal…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Traditional auscultation devices and methods have inherent limitations in spatially localizing body sounds and suppressing interference—restricting their diagnostic potential. This project d…
ISEF · 2025
Technology Enhances the Arts
Communication between the hearing impaired and the general people has long been an unresolved issue. Although sign language can solve this problem to some extent, sign language becomes ineff…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Wastewater runoff from textile industries – especially in regions with high amounts of both textile and agricultural production (typically east-Asian countries) – can seep into groundwater a…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software
Artificial intelligence has developed quickly and improved daily life for the majority of individuals, yet accessibility challenges persist for the visually impaired. Existing assistive tech…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Pneumonia is a potentially lethal lung disease characterized by inflammation of the alveoli. Chest X-ray (CXR) imaging is the primary diagnostic tool, but human interpretation requires signi…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
This study investigated the effects of temperature, mordant additives, and pH on the colorfastness of natural substantive dyes. The hypothesis proposed that alum would enhance colorfastness…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Access to treated water is a challenge in many communities around the world. Globally, 2.2 billion people do not have access to drinking water. In Brazil, over 33 million people face this pr…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The aim of this project is to determine how having two methods of movement (wheels and legs) affects the movement capabilities of a robot. First, a robot with both wheeled and quadruped syst…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women, with over 2.3 million new cases diagnosed worldwide each year. Obese breast adipocytes secrete pro-inflammatory cytokin…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
Wound care management is a major medical challenge, causing significant clinical, social, and economic burden. To address this, I developed WoundView, an AI-powered app for real-time wound a…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
The extreme nature and strong gravity of black holes make them a great laboratory for testing our fundamental theories of the universe. We can not see black holes because their gravity is so…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The main goal is to build a robot that can manage plant diseases autonomously for efficient disease management in agriculture. Conventional approaches are time-consuming, laborious, and inac…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences
Huanglongbing (HLB) or the Citrus Greening Disease (Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus) is the most destructive citrus disease worldwide. Currently, no pesticide is registered to cure this di…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Anti-apoptotic B-cell leukemia/lymphoma (Bcl-2) family proteins are reported to be overexpressed in around half of all human cancers, linked to tumorigenesis, chemotherapy resistance, and po…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Chronic wasting disease(CWD) is a contagious, fatal prion disease found in cervids, specifically whitetail and mule deer, resulting in their decline. Data (sex, species, CWD status, and harv…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
With steel demand set to increase ~15% by 2050, current iron reduction methods still emit 2–3 tons of CO2 per ton of steel, making the shift to hydrogen-based technologies essential to mitig…
ISEF · 2024
Materials Science
Stem cell therapy holds tremendous promise for treating illnesses by regenerating damaged body tissues. However, no stem cell treatments for cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, or ortho…
ISEF · 2024
Embedded Systems
Water is essential for life, but accessing clean water is a challenge in many places due to pollution. In this study, we focus on plankton, tiny water organisms that can reveal a lot about w…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
The ability to visualize cell behavior within the 3-dimensional space of a tissue is invaluable for understanding cell function. Although open-source and professional software exist to analy…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
As the third largest coral barrier reef system in the world, the Florida Keys is home to thousands of marine life species and faces a myriad of threats resulting in a 90% decline in healthy…
ISEF · 2024
Embedded Systems
Many studies estimate that over 150,000 police-reported accidents are caused by drowsy, distracted, or drunk driving, resulting in over 400,000 injuries and over 4,000 deaths annually. An em…
ISEF · 2024
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Leukodystrophies, rare genetic disorders that cause abnormal myelin development or destruction, have recently been discovered to be associated with the polr3a gene. This experiment aimed to…