25 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.
25 projects · showing 1–25
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Uncontrolled minor bleeding requires effective, safe, and accessible materials. However, most commercial hemostatic dressings rely on synthetic, non-renewable polymers and present high produ…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
The high microbial density of the oral cavity compromises the effectiveness of dental cements consequently increasing the number of secondary infections caused by remaining bacteria. Despite…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry Fourth Award
Several tons of crustacean waste are generated globally due to the mass consumption of seafood such as shrimp, lobster, crab, etc. These are a reservoir of renewable resources such as chitin…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Nowadays over 80% of the volume of international trade in goods is carried by sea. The majority of the ships still run on fossil fuels, causing high levels of pollutant exhaust emissions. De…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Eutrophication is a degradation process of aquatic ecosystems. As a consequence of the nutrient rise, the environment is disrupted. Thus, it is vital to develop efficient methods that remove…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Developing early and reliable forest fires detection systems is of most importance in the current climate change scenario. For that purpose, using radio waves attenuation patterns reveals se…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
The summer of 2020 was a different one: sea waters remain salty, the rivers ones persist crystal and clear; nonetheless, in the air, the threat hovers... The Covid-19 pandemic posed unforese…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
To start to question the general theory of relativity, one has to go back and has to be sure that everything that comes before is safe and sound. In the following pages, LIGO pipelines were…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
The role of iron (Fe) in marine ecosystems was proved an active element for the biogeochemical balance of the ocean's euphotic zone. However, such studies have been preferentially conducted…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The project that we are presenting tries to counter the following problem: deaths or injuries in fires. It is based on a robot controlled remotely by firefighters which are involved in a fir…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
In this project, it is presented a ROOT developed database for gravitational waves (GW) signal decomposition. Thus, it allowed the analysis of two GW detection events: GW150914 and GW170817/…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
The children in preschool age spend, at least, six hours in the school. The safety of these children is an aspect that more concern the parents /guardian as well the education professionals.…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Taking into account the environmental problems associated with plastics, it is increasingly necessary to look for less harmful alternatives, such as bioplastics. However, most existing biopl…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Synthetic polymers, like Polystyrene (PS), are a severe environmental problem. Recently published studies prove that the larvae of Tenebrio molitor (mealworms) are capable of biodegrading PS…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Human beings are exposed to mercury every day, either through their domestic or work environment. In 2017, a study was developed which assessed mercury contamination in a group of students,…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
The aim of this project was to verify the influence of halobacteria on the development and germination of lettucein extreme salt conditions. This hypothesis could be the solution to minimize…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Despite much progress, several important discrepancies between state-of-the-art models and observational studies in extragalactic astronomy subsist, particularly for star-forming galaxies. T…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Having in mind one of the most worrying issues of todays and future society, water polution, we intend to use banana peel in the cleaning of contaminated waters with both cationic dyes and h…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
To understand the molecular mechanisms involved in the onset and progression of neurodegenerative diseases aiding the discovery of new therapeutical targets, it is crucial to perform in vivo…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Wolf Rayet (WR stars), which are poorly studied in the field of astronomy, are massive stars with luminosities a million times bigger than the Sun’s and temperatures about 8 times higher. It…
ISEF · 2016
In a recent scientific paper, Monzo characterized semilattices of rectangular bands and groups of exponent 2 as the semigroups that satisfy the following conditions: x = x^3 and xyx \in {xy^…
ISEF · 2015
The IF Project - Intelligent Flow aims to create a solution to one of the most serious environmental problems of this century, the excessive consumption of water and specially its wastage. T…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Illiteracy, elder abandonment, elder abuse, poor scientific awareness, misunderstanding of what science really is... These are just some of the problems our societies face nowadays and makes…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
The aim of this project is to create a prototype of a bacteriophages concentrated cream, which can, in some way, prevent diseases caused by certain types of bacteria. Thus, it will be easier…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The ineffectiveness of the paramedics’ means in critical emergency situations is frequently caused by the delay that exists between the request for help and the triggering of the means of em…