245 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
245 projects · showing 181–210
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
Translational Medical Science
The purpose is to determine if volatile organic compounds (from flexible vinyl flooring) play a role in the creation of aberrations in cellular function, growth and morphology that might be…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
Fossil fuels are currently used in the automobile industry. Many problems have occurred because of the harmful emission of greenhouse gases and alternatives such as hydrogen fuel can help re…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry Fourth Award
Typical graphene is grown through chemical vapor deposition (CVD) which requires high temperatures (1,100-1,600 °C) and complicated transfer processes that frequently result in the loss and…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
The drug Rapamycin (Rapa) delays age-related diseases, increase lifespan, and inhibits the mechanistic target of Rapamycin, a kinase that prevents the clearance of Aß. However, the applicati…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In city developmental processes, extended depths of soil are often removed, changing the soil composition and reducing its overall quality, especially in terms of its ability to infiltrate w…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry Fourth Award
Often times, those clean walls in your house will become stained with household chemicals. Increasing the stain resistance of the water-based latex paints has become increasing difficult due…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology First Award
It is evident that the tongue perceives tactile sensation, but little is known about the neurons that mediate this. Since tropomyosin receptor kinase C (TrkC) neurons are mechanoreceptors on…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this experiment was to study the potential benefits of a novel design on the efficiency of the lift and drag relationship for airfoils. The physics of the fluid flow dynamics…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Platelet endocytosis is very important, especially for fibrinogen uptake. Platelets contain several integral membrane proteins called soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor Attachment Pro…
ISEF · 2016
Oxidative stress is present during kidney disease. Nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a transcription factor which combats oxidative stress and compounds inducing Nrf2 red…
ISEF · 2016
As of 2015, it has been estimated that over fifty percent of all cancer patients will receive radiation therapy during some phase of their treatment. Despite clinical potential, the therapy’…
ISEF · 2016
The growth of new materials based on the self-assemblage of individual atoms is one of the most promising methods for achieving nanofabrication at the atomic scale. To achieve this goal requ…
ISEF · 2016
The recently developed Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) primary battery technology possess theoretical efficiencies of of 2.5V and a capacity of 1000 mAh g-1; however, these batteries are only limited…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Engineering Goals/ Questions:The project is attempting to create a hybrid inkjet 3D printer that utilizes two inkjet cartridges and traditional fused filament deposition methods to create em…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics serves to deliver rapid and robust results in resource poor settings; however, current tests have been hindered by qualitative “yes-or-no” results. The purpos…
ISEF · 2016
My research has focused on the development of the first ever low-cost, open-source, integrated hearing test and hearing aid. The hardware for the device consists of a Teensy 3.1 - an Arduino…
ISEF · 2016
The team sought to create a polymer fiber material that would serve as a viable drug delivery system for the diffusion of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Alpha (VEGF) on the human heart a…
ISEF · 2016
Tsunami waves can cause a massive amount of damage to communities around the world. Waves with a higher wave velocity result in more damage because there is more energy transferred from the…
ISEF · 2016
This project will be used to eliminate the amount of water wasted while the water is heating up, by using a simple water diverter connected electronically to a temperature sensor. The user w…
ISEF · 2016
This work was carried out to investigate the effect of acid surface treatment on the flexural properties of a uniaxial composite made from 50% volume fraction of epoxy and hemp bast fiber. H…
ISEF · 2016
I had a desire to understand how muscles compensate following a surgery or injury. I competed at Trampoline and Tumbling Nationals months before I discovered I had cancer. A 13 cm x 10 cm x…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the sixth leading cause of death in the nation. Although AD research is bustling, a concrete and effective treatment has yet to be found. The purpose of this proj…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Recognizing and reacting to a hazard in sufficient time to avoid the hazard is essential to safe driving. Anything that detracts from the vehicle operator’s ability to focus on the driving t…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
It is necessary to understand human haptics because of the explosion of multi-sensory interfaces and growing need for devices that utilize weight perception to decide force required for obje…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Cisplatin cures cancers but increases mortality due to its nephrotoxicity. My in vitro studies led to the hypothesis that mice treated with acrolein or cisplatin will promote kidney fibrosis…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
The purpose of this experiment was to study the interactive effects of radiation, convection, and fluid vortices in a forest fire heat transfer environment. Applying these principles to fire…
ISEF · 2016
The Marangoni effect describes the transfer of mass down a surface tension gradient along the interface of two fluids. While this effect has been utilized for millennia by spiders and microv…
ISEF · 2015
The objective of this research was to implement an iris recognition system with a self-developed elliptic curve algorithm or hash. It was hypothesized that if this elliptic curve hash could…
ISEF · 2015
Purposes/Goals: 1. 3D print and construct a paste extruder and 3d printer to be utilized to print UV resins? 2. Is UV resin accurate to use in fused filament deposition(FFD) 3D printing? 3.…