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ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In the previous decade, cyanobacteria blooms in rivers have grown in both intensity and frequency due to climate change and water pollution, which are results of human activity. These blooms…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Annually approximately 20,000 people are wrongfully accused and imprisoned for crimes. Key eyewitnesses are often relied upon to help make these convictions. Cognitive Psychology studies the…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In the experiment, the group decided to investigate which genre of music creates the most amount of energy by using a mechanism that will use sound waves to convert them into energy. They fi…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chemotherapy resistance remains a challenge in treating cancer. There are many factors that can affect resistance, and it is not fully understood. PRPF39 is a pre-mRNA processing factor that…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Many questions have arisen about the effectiveness of masks, especially during the pandemic. In this project, the young scientist will attempt to answer some of these questions by observing…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Second Award
The existing studies in the broader literature have investigated epigenetics with the class Mammalia, contrary to the class Insecta that remained uninvestigated. To these ends, this study ai…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is a devastating eye disease affecting more than 10 million Americans like my great-grandmother. AMD is a neurodegenerative disease that affects the ma…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Analyses of voter turnout rates in the United States have established that nearly half of eligible American voters consistently choose not to participate in elections (Roberts, 2009). This t…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems
As America ages, it's estimated that by 2024, nearly 45% of the country's population will be over the age of 50. While retirement years may be filled with travel, hobbies, and time with fami…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Purpose: Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) is a sensitive detection and analysis technique which can detect chemical and biomolecules speedily, its detection speed is only 45 minute…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Every year on highways many accidents are caused by vehicles traveling in the wrong direction resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries. We have developed a novel system that can limit th…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
When fighting fires, firefighters still must expose themselves to great danger and enter hazardous areas such as burning industrial halls risking their own health. A self-designed and built…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software
The up to ninety-minute sessions that many patients spend in Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines, due to slow MRI data acquisition rates lead to blurry images, onsets of claustrophobia, hear…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
High-resolution X-rays require greater radiation dosages compared to lower-resolution X-rays. However, lower-resolution low-dose X-rays often lack the pathological detail and clarity require…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
In a world where water pollution extends well into the domestic world, accessible treatment solutions are more important than ever. Three years of prior research have proven enzyme-assisted…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences First Award
Honeybees are essential to society, performing over 80 percent of worldwide pollination. However, commercial hive populations have been decreasing at an alarming rate in the United States. R…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Radiotherapy is a cancer treatment that causes an excess of free radicals, which can induce a variety of chronic and degenerative diseases. Curcumin and piperine, potent antioxidants, exhibi…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Banana, Musa paradisiaca spp. (Musaceae) is widely cultivated, with a production of more than 50 million tons per year worldwide. Concurrently, an approximate of 1.4 million bananas are dump…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Several countries rely mostly on agriculture. Extensive agriculture using pesticides and herbicides pollutes water. These countries face several problems, such as water pollution, scarcity o…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The purpose of this project was to determine if vertical migration occurs among any of the zooplankton populations in the littoral zone of Lake Springfield. Samples were collected on five se…