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ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
For over a year, the majority of households in Haiti have been without power. This is the cause of large amounts of food waste due to a lack of cheap and accessible methods of food conservat…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software Second Award
Ransomware attacks render data unusable and demand a ransom in order to restore data integrity. These attacks destroy billions of dollars every year in lost data and productivity at the indi…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems First Award
Self-assembling modular robotic systems are a type of swarm robotics that allows for the assembly of different complex robotics configurations. Each system is composed of many individual mod…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
This project developed a leader-wingman drone swarm that can autonomously detect and track objects of interest (OOI). The leader drone is a custom-built X500 quadcopter equipped with a Jetso…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
Nowadays, liquid biopsies based on detecting cell-free DNA (cfDNA) by Real-Time PCR have gained momentum in cancer diagnosis owing to their painlessness to patients. However, detecting cance…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Climate and agriculture are intricately interwoven, as seasonal change produces a wide diversity of crops. Climate change has ramifications for agricultural health, yield, water, and soil. C…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences Second Award
Arsenic accumulation in rice is becoming increasingly problematic, threatening the health of over 150 million people globally. This project aims to use rhizoremediation with rice plants tran…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
Pythagoras’ theorem is a foundational theorem in geometry, with many far-reaching implications in other fields. There are many proofs of Pythagoras' theorem - from geometry, trigonometry or…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As the world pivots away from fossil fuels, the challenge becomes to satisfy the world's energy needs with intermittent zero-carbon sources such as wind and solar energy. In order to balance…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Globally, 775 million people don’t have access to electricity. Maximizing the use of renewable energies could enable more people to have access to electricity, however renewable energies are…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Visually impaired individuals need a low-cost assistive aid that can provide a new form of mobility and navigation. Currently, the blind rely on canes, guide dogs, and other tools to navigat…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The goal of this project is to develop an automatic American Sign Language (ASL) production system that generates high-quality ASL captions for multimedia content, making it accessible to th…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software Third Award
Medical imaging holds profound value in disease diagnosis for millions worldwide. However, studies show that physician imaging orders may frequently be inappropriate (26% of cases) for the c…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software
The purpose of this project was to create a working program that was capable of challenging someone to a game of Tic-Tac-Toe. I coded the basic A.I. using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript coding. O…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software
Food allergies are an important health issue that is ubiquitous in the world. However, the way to determine if food contains allergens is to check the back of the food, which is difficult to…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
A dead zone is an area in a body of water in which oxygen has been depleted to an extreme. These zones are caused by algae blooms which is an immense growth of algae. Algae blocks sunlight w…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project was to analyze the anatomy of the human hand and translate its mobility into a functional robotic hand (Alice) with the ability to translate English into American…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
More than seventy conditions are attributed to oxidative stress, including neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, and chronic pathological processes. The exposure of DNA demethylation by the in…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences
Skin allergies in dogs are common, leading to discomfort. Medications used to treat allergies are expensive, not always working. To combat this problem, the researcher believes an Aloe Vera…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
Bipolar Disorder is a mental health condition characterized by its traits of mood swings/manic episodes. It consists of two varieties, Bipolar One and Bipolar Two, One displaying full Manic…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Over the past decades, robotics has become an increasingly popular method to engage students in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math(STEM). However, due to the lack of af…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Introduction: Climate change, population growth and poor water conservation continue to worsen water shortages in the world. Engineering Goal: To develop a low cost, water-on-demand, soil mo…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry
Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is the most common inherited cause of Autism Spectrum Disorder. FXS is caused by transcriptional silencing of the FMR1 gene, which leads to the loss of the translati…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Climate change, ocean acidification, and decreased pH are causing detriment to kelp in our marine ecosystems. This decrease in pH is known to change the solubility of essential micronutrient…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Cancer cells develop resistance to chemotherapy by rewiring their metabolism. In Year-1 of our project, we showed that melphalan-resistant multiple myeloma (MM) cells had higher amounts of m…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a disease that causes extreme memory loss in people and can severely affect their day-to-day life. AB is a molecule that accumulates in the brains of AD patients…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Accurately determining the number of exoplanets in planetary systems is essential for gaining insight into planetary formation, the search for potentially habitable exoplanets, and the desig…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
Hampton Roads is located on the east coast of the United States, where it faces the threat of Atlantic Ocean hurricane season. Maximize the evacuation traffic flow is essential when facing s…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Flageolet harmonics is a playing technique on bowed string instruments, in which a player lightly touches a nodal point on a string with their finger. Previous studies have reported that the…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software
American Sign Language is the third most-used language in the United States following English and Spanish. More recent studies on speakers of ASL show that there are around 500,000 who commu…