Every Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair project Fairfolio holds: 17,565 entries across 13 years, with the abstract, category and awards the fair published for each one.
Counts cover every year of this fair and use its own category labels, exactly as the source published them. Each one links to that category's ISEF projects.
17565 projects · showing 12841–12870
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Due to population growth, urban areas in Oregon have been expanding, leading to increases in impervious surfaces and net losses in wetlands, riparian vegetation, and forestation in the North…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences Third Award
Potato late blight caused the Irish Potato Famine and still causes billions of dollars of annual crop damage. Tracking and predicting its spread remains problematic. Growers overspray potato…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The kth nearest neighbor algorithm (kNN) is a non-parametric method used for classification, in which a query point is compared to a data set of points with predetermined classes. The neares…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Pancreatic cancer (PC) remains resistant to most chemotherapy and radiation techniques. Consequently, its five-year survival rate is less than 6%. Most current studies elucidate how cell pat…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
Many machines that are used for building prototypes of electronical devices have a similar setup but although every machine must be bought, it is rarely necessary to use all of them at the s…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Cyperus esculentus and C. rotundus, or yellow and purple nutsedge, are widespread throughout many areas of the United States and have been classified as two of the world’s most invasive weed…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Herbicides are chemicals for managing weeds, similar to antibiotics used in human health. The repeated use of herbicides has resulted in the evolution of herbicide resistant weed populations…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science First Award
Nanoporous graphene membranes have the potential to solve the problem of a dwindling supply of fresh water that affects nearly half the world’s population by enabling low cost, efficient des…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The objectives of this project were to determine the general response of vegetation to drought conditions; to test whether moisture deficiency was the limiting factor for vegetation growth i…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
The EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Act, governs the legal threshold of contaminants allowable in public water systems. The Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for arsenic, the #1 ranked toxin, was re…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this project is to be able to provide a sustainable method of water filtration and to purify water safely and easily. Moringa Oleifera is a highly-valued plant, distributed in…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Every day, thousands of people in the underdeveloped world die from lack of a clean drinking source or a water related disease. This led me to my science fair project: can water be easily pu…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
The following scientific research seeks to determine through computational analysis and experimental tests; which is the best angle of attack to achieve greater stability of a truck of an in…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering First Award
Intracortical microelectrodes are essential tools in the rapidly growing brain-computer interface (BCI) and brain-machine interface (BMI) fields. The development of flexible intracortical mi…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Second Award
Number theory is a field where you study integers and the way they relate to each other. We look at a section of number theory called multiplicative functions. These functions act as machine…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The purpose of this experiment was to identify molecular mechanisms involved with the regulation of the MAPT gene and the subsequent formation of neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer’s disea…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical Third Award
Wave energy conversion devices absorb the forces associated with surge, roll, heave, pitch, sway and yaw motions of the ocean. Globally there are few devices that are being tested: point abs…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Antibiotics have been extensively used to treat patients with infectious diseases. As these drugs have been used widely for long time, the organisms the antibiotics are designed to kill have…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Second Award
Multilayered nanoparticles are promising carriers to deliver therapeutic biomolecules across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic brain injuries. Capabl…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
A cloud of space debris is formed when numerous defunct space objects orbit collectively around the Earth. Space debris clouds can have a much greater impact on space vehicles in low earth o…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
The family Cactaceae is recognized in Peru due to its great diversity of life forms, distributed along coastal desert, crossing the Andes Mountains and inter-Andean valleys to the Amazon tro…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
With the increasing number of urbanized people working with shifts and dealing with heavy stresses, the effects of sleep-related problems are greatly amplified. Our project aims to use cheap…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Muon scattering tomography is a passive imaging technique able to interpolate the elemental structure of high-Z materials. Given that development of the technique is in a stage of relative n…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Music braille is made up of more systematic and various symbols compared with text braille. Therefore, the translation of braille music requires extensive knowledge of the music and the brai…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
In this work, experiments were conducted that were designed to induce mutations in soil bacteria in an effort to make mutants that could grow in conditions similar to those on Mars. Seven di…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Fourth Award
The integration of deaf-mute people in our everyday life has been always a challenge for our society. Our educational application Mutasd! opens the door to anybody to easily learn to communi…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Strokes are a leading cause of death throughout the world, but little has been done to assess stroke susceptibility or provide retainable education for the subject matter. Increasing medical…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Commercial fertilizer usage has caused drastic environmental impacts. Its use has lead to the overgrowth of bacteria, causing death to aquatic ecosystems, carcinogenic effects in humans, and…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
My ePass is a platform-independent infrastructure which enables individuals and businesses to establish secure and seamless digital communication. Worldwide, there is a big diversity of stan…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Parkinson’s disease is one of the most commonly seen neurodegenerative diseases. It has no cure and becomes worse over time. Parkinson’s symptoms often go unnoticed in early stages, leading…