17 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
17 projects · showing 1–17
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Second Award
E-Waste makes up 70% of all toxic waste. The abundance of heavy metals such as mercury, lead and cadmium entering landfills leach our soil, groundwater, and atmosphere to horrific ends, yet…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The investigation was centred around a field study conducted at the Mindil Beach Mangrove ecosystem. A transect line and quadrat surveying along the line were utilized to analyze the abiotic…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences Second Award
Legumes form root nodules in which nitrogen-fixing bacteria are housed and flavonoids are necessary to activate nodulation genes in rhizobia. Isoflavonoids are known to protect legumes from…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Background radiation is the collective term for highly ionized particles and waves that are present in the environment. The amount of background radiation that reaches the Earth’s surface va…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Many weightlifters acquire unnecessary back injuries from manually picking up, moving and loading weight plates onto a barbell. To avoid these injuries, the Weight Plate Loader, a full-sized…
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 · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this investigation the environmental impacts of the introduced species, Salix fragilis, which is commonly called Crack Willow were researched and investigated. Crack willows are listed on…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
Saccharomyces cerevisiae has a preference for consuming disaccharides and monosaccharides relative to any other carbon source. It is able to respire either aerobically or anaerobically, rele…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
RoboBall aims to respond to the lack of high quality training facilities and coaching that regional soccer players have access to; the impact of these inequities between regional and metro p…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
I invented and developed The Giraffe Walker to address one of society’s significant issues- the incidence of falls by the elderly and the consequent injury, loss of confidence, self-esteem a…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Second Award
Each year, 60 million tons of biodegradable and organic matter are thrown into landfills, where they are unable to decompose and continuously produce greenhouse gases. Despite a proposed cor…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences Second Award
Native plants are a core identity of Australian Coastal Living. With over 80% of the population living on the coastal fringe, consequently, many assets are located within the Sydney sandston…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
The past few decades have seen an exponential increase in demand for high-rise buildings. However, the constant motion of tall buildings makes them more susceptible to wind loads - reducing…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Global warming has had a worldwide impact with methane gas being a significant contributor. According to calculations by the Environmental Defence Fund (EDF) based on a 2018 Intergovernmenta…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
Oysters are niche creatures within the marine ecosystem that filter phytoplankton to ensure clarity of water. As global plastic production reaches 4.8 - 12.7 million tonnes annually, their e…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
I was fascinated by my community’s use of local plants for medicinal purposes. Elders in my community have used (and are still using) bush medicine whenever any of our people get sick. I wan…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
Determining the quickest network route from point A to point B is a common introductory Graph Theory or Combinatorics activity and algorithms such as Dijkstra’s algorithm are effective tools…