ISEF · 2018
Safety Collar
Biomedical Engineering
According to 2011 data, 48.4% of individuals with disabilities in Palestine suffer from mobility disabilities; 49.5% in the West Bank compared with 47.2% in the Gaza Strip. Followed by learn…
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ISEF · 2018
Salvum Cars
Embedded Systems
If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving? Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day[1]. The critical reas…
ISEF · 2018
Satellite Modeling of Wildfire Susceptibility in California by Using Artificial Neural Networking
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Wildfires have become increasingly frequent and severe due to global climatic change, demanding improved methodologies for wildfire modeling. Traditionally, wildfires are assessed through po…
ISEF · 2018
Satellites and Cows
Animal Sciences
Ranchers want to know what their cows are doing in the day. To know what their cows do, they could put GPS collars on the cows and analyze the data. One of the major reasons they may want to…
ISEF · 2018
Save It, Repeat and Eat It
Earth and Environmental Sciences
During a year plants provide large amounts of matter full of cellulose. The biggest part of matter can be found in the crops, leaves and grass. People do not use this matter enough and even…
ISEF · 2018
Saving Lives with AFLOAT: Airbag Flotation Anti-drowning System
Physics and Astronomy
Submersion causes the highest mortality rate of all vehicular accidents. These might be caused by crashing into a water body or by road flooding. Cars normally sink very fast, giving occupan…
ISEF · 2018
Saving Our Environment: Ash to Concrete
Engineering Mechanics
In my project, I looked into different ways of recycling in Hawaii. Due to the fact that Hawaii has very limited landfill space, any form of recycling would have a large impact on the local…
ISEF · 2018
Saving Skin: A Mobile Application for the Prevention of Skin Cancer, Using Risk Analysis
Systems Software
The incidence of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, continues to rise due to ignorance regarding personal risk of melanoma development and regarding skin protection. I created a mo…
ISEF · 2018
Saving the Honey Bee from Varroa destructor Using RNA-Interference
Animal Sciences Second Award
Over 1/3 of the world's crops are pollinated by honey bees. Without them, many wildflowers and trees won't get the pollination they need, and agricultural expenses will skyrocket. Over the p…
ISEF · 2018
Screening Malignant Glioma Using an Electrical Differential Impedance Spectrometer and Artificial Neural Network
Translational Medical Science
In the United States, 23,830 new primary malignant tumors of the brain and central nervous system (CNS) are expected to be diagnosed in 2018, according to the Central Brain Tumor Registry of…
ISEF · 2018
Screening of Yeasts in Azalea Nectar for Bioethanol Production
Microbiology Fourth Award
Yeast species in floral nectar, especially Saccharomyces cerevisiae, show high alcohol fermentation properties, with nectar-dwelling non-Saccharomyces yeast Metschnikowia pulcherrima additio…
ISEF · 2018
Searching for Hydrothermal Vents in the Samoan Archipelago
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This takes place in the Samoan Islands, located in the South Pacific Ocean.I have been working on finding this underwater vent for 8 months, and it has involved so much of my time and resour…
ISEF · 2018
Secondary Crater Morphology with Distance from Primary Crater
Physics and Astronomy
Craters are categorized as primary or secondary. Primary craters are created by the initial impact of interplanetary debris and secondary craters are created by the ejecta from that primary…
ISEF · 2018
Seeing Clearly and Farther: Augmented Perception for Safe Driving in Adverse Weather and Reduced Visibility Conditions
Systems Software First Award
Adverse weather such as fog, rain, snow, and severe haze can greatly decrease visibility, making it difficult for drivers to perceive traffic information. Such reduced visibility increases t…
ISEF · 2018
See the Bees Speak: Confined Direct Analysis in Real Time and SPME-GC-MS for B. impatiens and A. mellifera Alarm Pheromone Detection
Animal Sciences
Both honey bees and bumble bees are frequently used as pollinators for crops around the world. Bumble bees are active at lower temperatures and have smaller hives, increasing their use over…
ISEF · 2018
Self-Learning Robotic Arthropod
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Purpose: Studying the evolution of simple creatures is key in order to unlock new knowledge. This could help us create genetic algorithms that allow robots to learn new techniques on the fly…
ISEF · 2018
Sex Perspective Rigidity and Sex Discrimination
Behavioral and Social Sciences
I created the "Family Relationship Questionnaire"(FRQ) to categorize participants as sex perspective (SP) "rigid" or SP "flexible". Rigid participants were those who could not see themselves…
ISEF · 2018
Sharis Sohcahtoa
Mathematics
The machine will help learners with hearing impairment to read cosines,sines and tangents of an angle at the same time to improve mathematical performance in special schools(schools for the…
ISEF · 2018
ShealS - Sea Heals Soil
Microbiology Second Award
Marine macroalgae, due to exposure to adverse abiotic conditions, have developed defense mechanisms such as the ability to produce biologically active substances that, when assimilated by ce…
ISEF · 2018
Sheep Vocalization Analysis from Gestation to Birth
Animal Sciences
Understanding vocal mothering in sheep is vital to increase lamb survival rates and farm efficiency. Ewes have been observed to vocalize differently before and after giving birth. It is conj…
ISEF · 2018
Should Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Regret their Choice of DNA Repair Mechanisms?
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) have a huge potential use in regenerative medicine. However, the mutant frequency of hiPSC reaches the level of differentiated cells rather than…
ISEF · 2018
Silent Information
Physics and Astronomy
Science has already proven that Noise (i.e. Sound Pollution) in public spaces is not limited to the sound originating from other space users but also from administrative audio warnings & not…
ISEF · 2018
Silver Nanoparticles: Reducing Environmental Toxicity Through Shape Control
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The increasing usage of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in consumer and antibacterial products without regulation raises concerns about their environmental toxicity. Silver nanospheres have bee…
ISEF · 2018
Silver Nanoparticle Water Filtration Incorporating Ultra-Violet Sterilization
Environmental Engineering
In the 1900’s silver was used extensively as an antimicrobial agent. When antibiotics were developed they became very popular and silver as an anti-bactericide decreased (Alexander, 2009). T…
ISEF · 2018
Simplex RPG Engine
Systems Software
Purpose: Game development without a specialized set of tools requires the developer to write interface between the game logic and the hardware layer. Using various technologies and multiple…
ISEF · 2018
Simulation, Optimization, and Validation of a Closed Wing Airplane
Engineering Mechanics Second Award
A systematic design and analysis process was conducted for a closed wing airplane configuration. A closed wing configuration consists of two staggered wings connected at the tips. The closed…
ISEF · 2018
Single Chamber MFC: Role of Extracellular Phosphate in Heavy Metal Precipitation
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Microbial fuel cells (MFC) are a more renewable, cost efficient, and a more effortless form of energy production. MFC take advantage of specific ion producing exoelectrogenic bacteria (G.sul…
ISEF · 2018
Single Crystal Synthesis, Structure, and Magnetic Properties of CrAl3Bi2O9, the First Cr-Al-Bi-O Compound
Physics and Astronomy
In this study, the first chromium aluminum bismuthate is synthesized with a formula of CrAl3Bi2O9 as an orthorhombic single crystal with interesting magnetic properties and potential thermoe…
ISEF · 2018
Single-Step Breast Cancer Detection Method Through Measurement of Gold Nanoparticle Adsorption to Lysine Amino Acid
Biomedical Engineering
When citrate ligands-capped gold nanoparticles are mixed with a sample of positively charged proteins at pH 7, a protein corona is formed on the nanoparticle surface due to electrostatic ads…
ISEF · 2018
Single vs. Multiple Planetary Systems: Insights from Analysis of Exoplanetary Data
Physics and Astronomy
In the last few years, many exoplanetary systems have been discovered, especially by NASA’s Kepler mission. Much recent work has focused on finding other Earth-like planets, within potential…