55 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.
55 projects · showing 1–30
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Localized surface plasmons (LSPs) are collective oscillations of free electrons on metallic nanoparticles. By confining light into nanoscale volumes, LSPs generate strong electromagnetic nea…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
A planet is a celestial body that orbits a star. Thousands of exoplanets (planets outside of our solar system) have been discovered to date, with many additional candidates identified by mis…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Due to population growth and technological advancement, global energy demand is on the rise. Yet 86% of the world's energy is from burning fossil fuels, with only 8% from sustainable methods…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
A planet is an object that moves through space in a fixed path, orbiting a star or remnants of a star. An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system. The TESS space telescope has identif…
ISEF · 2025
Chemistry
Recent advancements in surface plasmon (SP) structures have led to the utilization of metallic hole arrays for color generation and filtering, offering reliability and color tunability. Thes…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry
Herpes Simplex Virus-1 (HSV-1) infects around 70% of the global population, causing cold sores on the lips and genitals. This study presents a novel antiviral approach targeting plakin prote…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The most common biological neuron spiking computational model is the Integrate&Fire (I&F) model. It computes the neuron's potential by summing its inputs and fires spikes accordingly. The Fi…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The human microbiome is a term for the community of microorganisms living in the human body. The composition of the microbiome has the ability to influence the expression of various diseases…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Stem cells play a central role in the development of organisms; hence, studying them is of great importance. RE:IN modeling of systems involving them allows us to investigate their behaviors…
ISEF · 2024
Materials Science
Damselflies exhibit a variety of distinctive colors and patterns. Among the limited number of animal species changing body coloration, the blue-tailed damselfly, Ischnura elegans, stands out…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Text-generation AI services are unaffordable for most people at $10 to $20 a month. I developed and published an open-source efficient text-generation algorithm called grouped sampling to en…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The HIV virus caused millions of deaths in the last decades. Today's treatment for HIV infection has substantial shortcomings. Genetic engineering of B cells by inserting a gene encoding ant…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The majority of passenger aircraft today are powered by Turbofan engines, renowned for their quiet and efficient operation at subsonic speeds. The Turbofan engine is, however, unable to exce…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems
Homeowners around the world face the challenge of birds attempting to nest on their balconies, despite the availability of many products on the market designed to deter birds. These birds ha…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alternative splicing is a process that occurs during gene expression, in which a gene codes for multiple proteins by including or excluding segments (exons) from the mRNA transcript. The spl…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) are lymphocytes capable of recognizing and attacking cancer cells. During continuous attacks, CTLs undergo an exhaustion process, gradually losing their abilities un…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
The global water crisis has gotten worse while freshwater sources around the world are being reduced and the quality of the water is in a constant decline. Surface water pollution is caused…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Abrupt climate changes around the world, coupled with the rapid growth of population, are leading to a critical shortage of water, thus creating a need for reliable, up-to-date, and efficien…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Optical fiber-based sensors are becoming more and more attractive over other types of sensors thanks to their ability to function in unconventional environments over long distances with a si…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by impaired memory and accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aß) plaque in the brain. Type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for devel…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
Mathematical research has always been done by humans - mathematicians with the help of their thinking abilities. From the 1950s onwards, computers began to be used to perform a variety of ta…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Inherited retinal diseases may cause retinal degeneration which can lead to blindness. There are about 250 different genes associated with inherited retinal diseases resulting in many differ…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Batteries are integral components of our daily life. The commercial batteries comprise a liquid electrolyte, that closes the electric circuit between the positive and negative electrodes. Al…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry First Award
Aerogels are the least-dense class of solid material available today, with an enormous surface area relative to their weight and volume due to their porous nature. This makes aerogels attrac…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Future space missions may use resources embedded in asteroids for fuel, water or oxygen. Carbon-based asteroids are suspected to contain water; therefore, NASA sent the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer related mortality worldwide. Angiogenesis refers to the growth of new blood vessels from preexisting ca…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Experiment Purpose Inside the earth’s mantle, chemical reactions take place between different rocks via a fluid-rock reactions which in turn influence their chemical properties. These reacti…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
Purpose: Modern mobile devices require quicker charging times and larger power supplies. We combined the qualities of batteries and capacitators to create a hybrid device that is flexible, o…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Purpose of the Experiment: What can our brain process without us being conscious about? The current study focuses on one aspect of this question - what are the relations between integration…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This research examines the possibility to use computer algorithms to solve problems which involve creativity and artistic skills. In this work machine learning algorithms are applied to a me…