56 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
56 projects · showing 31–56
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Are synthetic fragrances (conventionally manufactured perfumes) more harmful than essential organic oils? Are the widely used body sprays and perfumes unknowingly putting the public at risk?…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Third Award
The Zika Virus (ZIKV) has recently been a major cause of concern in many parts of the world. ZIKV infections are linked to fetal and newborn microcephaly, a spectrum of abnormalities in the…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
The white cane has helped the blind for centuries, but how can this basic invention be revolutionized using twenty-first century technologies at an affordable price? This project tackles the…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical Second Award
Concentrated solar technologies that concentrate sunlight on a receiver are becoming popular not just for electricity, but also for desalination. My research focuses on improving efficiency…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
Today, emissions, a greenhouse gas, are a very controversial topic as many environmentalists believe they are part of the cause of global warming. In this project, I wanted to test one possi…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The traditional preparation of toishabui(chokecherry) was to grind the fruit with the seed and make it into a raw mixture. In the nontraditional preparation the berry is boiled, juiced, and…
ISEF · 2016
Studies have shown that fungi can be very beneficial in the production of biofuels directly from agricultural waste. The purpose of this experiment is to determine if mushrooms can be used t…
ISEF · 2016
The regulation and function of non-coding RNA is an important issue. Circular RNA (circRNA) is a prevalent type of non-coding RNA that forms a loop with itself. In Drosophila melanogaster, t…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
There are several “safe” food myths that are prevalent in today’s society, but the question remains whether or not they actually hold true. To determine the safeness of following certain foo…
ISEF · 2016
Sclerotium cepivorum, White rot fungus, plagues onion and garlic crops around the world. It’s particularly detrimental because of its unique reproductive cycle. It does not reproduce through…
ISEF · 2016
Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy (ANE) is a severe neurologic complication manifested primarily in young Asian children in the form of encephalopathy, seizures, coma, and symmetric brain les…
ISEF · 2016
Oil spills critically damage the environment. Spilled oil can be removed from water, but oil contaminated sand is dumped into landfills. The oil from the contaminated sand can leach into gro…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Solar power technologies, which offer sustainable, clean energy sources, are developing to improve efficiency of energy conversion and storage. Concentrated solar power (CSP) plants are an e…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Before starting this experiment there was confusion about how long that the food would take long, yet there was never a clarification on how long it would take. This experiment was designed…
ISEF · 2015
My project was designed to create a low-cost, easily manufactured, water durable, natural gait prosthetic foot. Some prosthetic feet cost $14,000 USD, and it’s too expensive for amputees in…
ISEF · 2015
In this project, I wished to determine the best way to increase the efficiency of a wing. I hypothesized that leading-edge wing fences or full-body wing fences would correct wingtip vortices…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Garlic and garlic extracts have numerous therapeutical properties that result from its organosulfuric compounds, notably allicin. The first primary objective of this experiment was to constr…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project was to determine the most efficient material used in a microbial fuel cell (MFC) for the maximum production of electricity. Also, if a septic system additive woul…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
In the experiment, the relationship between the pteridine eye pigments of the drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies), including wild type, sepia type, white type and brown type and their resp…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this experiment was to discover if copper paint on boat hulls, used to repel sea life adherence from the bottom of boats, can change the pH of ocean water. To determine if cop…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Bright and motivated high school students often choose to take the most rigorous classes possible in high school. The question then becomes why should a motivated, high achieving student sub…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Glucose (sugar) is the fuel of the body, but does it actually result in better performance? I tested the mental and physical responses to glucose. My hypothesis was that there would be a sug…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Our world is running out of fossil fuels! Scientists are continually looking for ways of producing the power needed to sustain our way of life. Solar, geothermal, wind, and nuclear power are…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Hormesis refers to an amount of stress in a threshold between average and bio-negative results that has been shown to increase life span, decrease cancer rates, and boost the immune system o…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
The purpose of this project is to test the effects of psychological distraction on the problem solving process in the average adolescents mind. Adolescents struggle with stress and learning…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
There are more than 30 forms of Muscular Dystrophy which combined affects nearly 20,000 children born annually worldwide. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is the most common form of muscula…