ISEF · 2014
Fone2Find
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
A great deal of time is wasted trying to locate misplaced keys. This can ruin your day, leave you late for work or school, stretch relationships, increase the blood pressure and can result i…
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CSEF · 2014
For the Venus Flytrap, Does Food Type Affect the Speed of a Trap's Closure and the Duration of the Trap's Closed State?
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment builds on a body of knowledge in the field of carnivorous plants. It investigates an area in which little is known: In a Venus flytrap, does food type affect…
ISEF · 2014
Fracking Contamination
Materials Science
Based on research done last year, it was decided that an experiment would be completed to observe the contamination that occurs during hydraulic fracturuing. In an experiment done in 2013, i…
CSEF · 2014
Fracking Earthquakes: Testing the Correlation between Deep Injection Wells and Earthquakes
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment is to test the correlation between fracking waste water disposal wells and seismic activity. I hypothesize that I can show deep injection well…
CSEF · 2014
Frankenfood, Fertility, and the Food Chain: The Effects of Secondary Consumption of GMO
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to expand my experiment from last year when I observed the effects of GMO versus organic papaya diet on the longevity and fertility of fruit flies.…
CSEF · 2014
Freezing Warm: Thermopoles in the Snow
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals We wanted to find out why animals make subnivean (meaning in the snow) homes in the freezing cold snow during winter. Methods/Materials We conducted our experiment in Januar…
ISEF · 2014
Frequency Modulation Feedback Control for Near-Field Acoustic Characterization of Mesoscopic Fluid Films
Physics and Astronomy
The enigmatic properties of the mesoscopic fluid confined between two solid objects or adsorbed on a substrate have puzzled scientists in the field of condensed matter. One of the current me…
CSEF · 2014
Fresh Water from the Sea by Desalination
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals California has been through many severe droughts such as the recent drought of 1987-1992, where Santa Barbara turned to desalination, installing a temporary emergency desali…
ISEF · 2014
Fringe E-Fields of Flat and Cylindrical Deflectors and a New Proposal for the Proton EDM Experiment
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Most fundamental particles have a magnetic dipole moment. None yet is found to also have an electric dipole moment (EDM), i.e., a displacement of positive and negative charges along the dire…
ISEF · 2014
From Factories Waste to Fertilizer: Producing Ammonium Sulfate from Gypsum and Fluorosilicic Acid
Plant Sciences
A large amount of gypsum and fluorosilicic acid wastes is produced each year from a fertilizer factor in Hai Phong, Vietnam and negatively affects our environment. The goal of our study is t…
ISEF · 2014
From the Antibiotic Resistance Acquisition by Bacteria to the Impact of the Resistant Tuberculosis on Society through a Computer Modelling (IbM)
Microbiology Fourth Award
Since the discovery of penicillin, bacteria have developed mechanisms to avoid its effects and, therefore, survive. Furthermore, during the last decades and because of the overuse of antibio…
ISEF · 2014
From Waste to Electricity and Hydrogen Gas: A Novel Power Management Device for Microbial Fuel Cell-Microbial Electrolysis Cell Coupled Systems
Engineering Mechanics
The microbial fuel cell-microbial electrolysis cell (MFC-MEC) coupled system may pose an effective solution to current energy and environmental problems as it links electrically in series tw…
CSEF · 2014
From Waste to Energy- Cellulosic Ethanol Production from Chaparral: Comparison of Two Pretreatment Conditions
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to create a process that converts chaparral, a plant that is currently being removed under the California Fire Mitigation Plan, into eth…
CSEF · 2014
Frozen Flight: The Aerodynamic Effect of Ice Contamination
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine what, if any, was the aerodynamic effect of ice on an airfoil. The aim was to specifically determine the differences in lift a…
CSEF · 2014
Fruit Fly Frenzie: The Effect of Temperature on Gender Development of Drosophlia melanogaster
Zoology
Objectives/Goals Drosophila melanogaster, a small fruit fly, feeds and lives on fruit because of the high sugar content of most fruits. D. Melanogaster originated in Africa, about 10,000 yea…
ISEF · 2014
Fruit Waste Based Ammonia-Biosorptive Permeable Barriers
Environmental Engineering
Near domestic and commercial agricultural settings, ammonia runoff is a threat to freshwater ecosystems. Research by scientist Milena Beniolo found that banana peels effectively absorbed pos…
CSEF · 2014
Fry and Reuse
Chemistry Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to find the most effective type of fruit peel that lowers the oxidation of oil. Once this is discovered, the frying oil will be able to be…
ISEF · 2014
Fuel of the Future
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this project is to show which oil is the best to use when making biodiesel. This procedure involved making biodiesel using olive oil, peanut oil, and canola oil. Each oil was…
ISEF · 2014
Functional Equations: Rational Functions and Their Matrix Isomorphism
Materials Science Third Award
Functional equations are equations involving unknown functions. Solving such equations can be tedious and perplexing. However, utilizing the power of abstract algebra, solving them can be ma…
ISEF · 2014
Functions of BldD Respressor in Teicoplanin Producer Actinoplanes teichomyceticus
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Actinoplanes teichomyceticus is a producer of antibiotic, teicoplanin, which acts against multi-resistant G+ pathogens. There are few industrial teicoplanin-overproducing strains with increa…
ISEF · 2014
Fungus among Us
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Black mold can grow in houses and is extremely dangerous to humans. The purpose of my project was to find the best household remedies to remove black mold. I tested 8 different solutions to…
ISEF · 2014
Fun in the Sun! Increasing Grätzel Cell Efficiency Using Diatomaceous Earth
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
In 2013 approximately 36 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide was released into the atmosphere – intensifying the greenhouse effect and contributing to global warming and rapid climate change. As de…
ISEF · 2014
Fuzzy Logic Based Web Browser for the Motor Impaired
Embedded Systems
Paralyzed or paretic individuals lack the ability to move their limbs and may be speech impaired. They cannot use traditional human-computer interaction methods to harness the power of web-b…
ISEF · 2014
G-14: A New Kind of Multi-rotors
Energy: Chemical
All UAVs have some problems like helicopters can't fly in narrow places and exposed to crash and have bare propellers which make them more exposed to crash. The G-14 is a round anti-collisio…
ISEF · 2014
Game for Visually Impaired with 3D-Sound
Embedded Systems
The number of digital games is increasing rapidly. They are developed across many categories, such as mobile games, 3D-Games, sports games, and even educational games. But less than 0.001% o…
CSEF · 2014
Game On: Creating a Worthy Connect Four Opponent with Heuristic Algorithms
Mathematics & Software Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to design a computer program to model the game of Connect Four and to sometimes win against average human beings using defensive, offensive, and look ahead…
ISEF · 2014
Games of the Future: Brainwave-controlled Devices
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Electrical activity that the human brain produces is directly correlated with the task an individual is performing. This activity can be recorded with electrodes, giving us an electroencepha…
CSEF · 2014
Gasoline Soaker-Upper
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals There have been disastrous gasoline spills throughout history. In addition, the runoff from the rain carries gasoline into the surrounding soil causing even greater damage.…
ISEF · 2014
Gas Phase Ion Chemistry and Ion Mobility of Pharmaceutical Substances in Counterfeit Formulations: Technology for Measurement and Confidence of Detection
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The health and well-being of populations in certain critical regions of the world are threatened today by the presence of counterfeit pharmaceuticals which are often authentic materials dilu…
CSEF · 2014
Gas: Which Beverages Release the Most Gas and How Does It Affect the Stomach?
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals To see which beverage would release the most gas and how it would affect the stomach. Methods/Materials EXPERIMENTAL METHOD: 1) Pour equal amounts of beverages in each plast…