108 projects whose affiliated fair was here, most recently in 2026.
ISEF records a state or province for some finalists and not others, so these counts do not add up to the country total.
108 projects · showing 61–90
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
A prerequisite for conventional mass spectrometry is the transfer of a sample into the gaseous phase followed by its ionic fragmentation in a vacuum. The technical limitations of conventiona…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics First Award
Classic rotorcrafts, such as helicopters, work due to complex mechanics and especially the interaction between the main and the tail rotor. Small and light microcontrollers are widely availa…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Third Award
When the first iPad came out I instantly wanted to be able to create illustrations freely from anywhere I am. After the introduction of high resolution displays working with vectors instead…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Have you ever wondered if there are things that fall faster than gravity? We definitely want to reply with a "yes" to this question and we are providing the answer with our project. If you d…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems Second Award
A computer cursor is usually being controlled by using a keyboard and in most cases by a computer mouse in addition. For presentation purposes people like to use a wireless "presenter device…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
A steady stream of a certain liquid, hitting a rough surface (e.g. a wooden board) perpendicularly, yields a surprising result. A water wall encloses a regular wave pattern centered on the w…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
For every sighted person it is easy to use public transport. But there are challenges for blind and visually impaired people like finding the entrance into the public transport as a vital pr…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Second Award
Purpose of this project is to show whether the toxical pyrrolizidine alkaloids of senecio jacobaea can pollute the local honey. These toxicants are carcinogenic, mutagen and moreover accumul…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Being the eighth most frequent surgery in Germany, the insertion of hip replacement is becoming more and more important in our society. A growing problem is the early wear of such implants,…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Water bears (phylum Tardigrada) are small metazoan animals which live in different environments, for example mosses or soils. Tardigrades have evolved many special adaptations to these speci…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Our project A.T.S.P. (Autonomic Thermal Soaring Platform) is an embedded system, which allows a fixed-wing aircraft an autonomic flight without requiring a motor permanently. The energy for…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
Flying wings offer an enormous potential to reduce drag and weight. Unfortunately, flying wings are significantly more critical in terms of flight stability than aircraft with tail assemblie…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
It is well known that pickles connected to DC voltage light up on the negatively charged electrode. We expected that performing the experiment with AC voltage would result in the pickle glow…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Augmented reality (AR) is a fascinating new lighting technology, where we can add virtual objects to our reality that are perceived as holograms within our actual environment. Special AR gla…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The number of small, commercially available drones (multicopters) has continued to increase for the last few years. Apart from useful applications, they are used to invade critical infrastru…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The prevailing identification and diagnosis of bacteria species requires the shipment of temperature-sensitive biological samples to a microbiology laboratory for biochemical, genetic or imm…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Third Award
Due to ongoing technical miniaturization, the importance of nanoparticles in research and application is constantly growing. When bombarding nanoparticles with energetic ions, atoms from the…
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
Chemistry
Chemically, rubies and sapphires are doped a-Al2O3 crystals, that means in this case that a certain percentage of aluminium cations is replaced by chromium(III) (ruby) or iron(II), iron(III)…
ISEF · 2016
In our project we develop and construct devices for the use in microfluidics using surface acoustic waves. Microfluidics has become an important field of modern research and allows the const…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
When an orb web is impacted by a small object, it is possible for spiders to locate the point of impact exclusively by measuring the propagation of the resulting transversal waves through th…
ISEF · 2016
Subsidized feed-in tariffs boosted CO2-friendly regenerative energy production in Europe, but were drastically reduced to limit costs. The reduced profitability caused stagnating regenerativ…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Spinal cord injuries (SCI) or illnesses like ALS or MS cause disabilities that make people dependent on a wheelchair and in their etiopathology are robbed of any movement at all. Our project…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The formation of planets out of gas and dust grains in protoplanetary disks is still a puzzling process. Observations of exoplanets - for example the detection of gas giants nearby their cen…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Experts predict the earth's crude oil reserves will last another 40-70 years. The era of "green gold" will begin at that point, replacing "black gold" as a raw material source. The most impo…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The goal of the research was to understand the processes going on under high voltage electrolysis and to bring attention to the possible applications of the new scientific field. Electrolysi…
ISEF · 2016
Currently, thermal energy gained from sun can be used for heating purposes. However, at the moment this huge amount of energy cannot be stored and used adequately. During this project I rese…
ISEF · 2016
This research focuses on the question whether sparklers can - when tangentially attached to a rotor - turn it only by their exerted force due to the burning process. To study the phenomenon…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
A chaotic water wheel is a special kind of mill wheel where the paddles have holes in the bottom so that they are leaking. If a water support is installed at the top, the top paddles where f…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
This project in its present form is the result of electrochemical production, analysis with new optical methods and application of aluminumoxide for a new electroluminescent device. The init…