318 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
318 projects · showing 301–318
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Aim: This study aimed to spread hand hygiene information and promote behavior change throughout a school population and beyond through student development and sharing of a social media (SM)…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to determine how different factors affect the accuracy of artificial neural network, specifically for cancer detection. Every factor tested did lead to a ch…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences First Award
Water scarcity is a huge problem in our world today. Although essential for life, almost one billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Scientists at Rice University recently discove…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
This study was done in a seventh grade life science classroom to determine if there is a correlation between the knowledge of personality types and how well different personality types works…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
The purpose of this experiment is to determine how the da Vinci robot compares to other surgical methods. IRB approval was obtained through the major medical hospital. Using the data bank re…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Reusing food waste and using natural fertilizers on organically grown produce is important to me. I redesigned and rebuilt a compost grinder to create a new type of organic fertilizer for se…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
The chiral structure of glucose, fructose, and galactose rotate plane polarized light. This angle changes depending on the concentration of sugar in a solution of sugar and water. The purpos…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
One in every 3,500 newborns is diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1), a common genetic disorder. Many NF1 patients develop painful tumors along their peripheral nervous system. The NF1 di…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
Potato viruses affect the potato farming and production industry each year. Finding tubers with resistance to the viruses is important for potato breeders in order to yield healthier tuber p…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The purpose of this project was to develop a new helpful multi-modal hand hygiene device that could be implemented into a healthcare setting. The device would determine whether an audio remi…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
With an interest in agriculture and renewable energy, I merged them into a two-part study to determine if biosolids from a wastewater treatment plant would enhance the growth of CP 25 Bioene…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), roughly four out of five women will use birth control at some point in their lives. After the main hormone, Ethinyl estradiol, runs its cou…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
As of late, drones have become a huge topic of interest at a commercial level but one aspect has yet to be challenged, improving the air time. To combat this, the PEGASUS 1 (Portative Energy…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Danio rerio are tropical transgenic zebrafish that contain a mutant strain, making them glow when their muscles fluoresce (Zebrafish, 2010). The question was: Can Quantitative Polymerase Cha…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Drimentines are a novel family of nine alkaloids that exhibit antibiotic, antifungal, anticancer, and anthelmintic activities. Nine forms of drimentines (forms A-H and 3,25-dihydrodrimentine…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Third Award
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, and currently treatment requires patients to receive chemotherapeutic drugs intravenously, which is both inconvenient and e…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Third Award
The objective of this project is to create a remotely operated rescue robot that can navigate dangerous situations such as a natural disaster or a fire, locate a person in need of rescue, pr…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Neogobius melanostomus (Round Goby) are a benthic dwelling invasive species of fish in the Great Lakes. The question is: What effect does gender, tones, and sound location have on the respon…