504 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
504 projects · showing 1–30
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The $191.3 billion U.S. infrastructure repair backlog and unreliability of traditional manual visual inspections, which miss up to 94% of cracks, demonstrates the urgent need for improved in…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Aerospike engines eliminate the 30–40% efficiency loss from conventional bell nozzles, yet no aerospike has achieved full operational flight due to extreme thermal loads on the central spike…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry
The main feature of cancer is that the cell's normal metabolic process has changed to allow for uncontrolled growth. Monocarboxylate transporter 2 (MCT2, encoded by SLC16A7) is responsible f…
ISEF · 2026
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Flavonoids, a subclass of polyphenols, are known for their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, potentially reducing the risk of cancer. This experiment tested the ability of five s…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Expansion Microscopy (ExM) enhances spatial resolution by physically enlarging tissues, enabling detailed visualization without requiring advanced microscopy systems. ExM has proven effectiv…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Dehydration is one of the leading causes of hospital admissions. Evaluations to measure hydration status in clinical settings utilize methods such as blood tests, urinalysis, and skin turgor…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Breast cancer, the most common cancer in women, is treated with chemotherapy drugs, a systemic treatment prone to multidrug and chemoresistance. An improved adjunctive treatment that increas…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
Assistive technology continues to improve for the hearing impaired with the creation of smaller technology utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) models inside of hearing aids. However, even…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Disease-spread and its consequences are governed by a multitude of factors, but only recently has culture been considered among its predictors. The individualism-collectivism spectrum, which…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Currently aviation produces considerable carbon emissions and high operating costs, making sustainable flight a key focus. Electric aircraft are widely viewed as an alternative due to their…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lead toxicity is an important environmental issue and a major global challenge, particularly in developing countries where water contamination can pose serious health risks. Heavy metals con…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Phubbing (phone use during face-to-face interactions) affects 75% of smartphone users and correlates with depression, loneliness, and relationship dissatisfaction. While contingency manageme…
ISEF · 2026
Technology Enhances the Arts
Damage to musical strings can degrade sound quality or even cause sudden failure during a musical performance. For large wire-cables, complex methods measuring the propagation of vibrations…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Particulate soiling reduces photovoltaic panel efficiency by 5-30% in arid environments. Current mitigation relies on water-intensive cleaning or chemical coatings containing per/polyfluoroa…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Certain neuromuscular disorders, such as stroke, Parkinson's Disease, multiple sclerosis, and spinal cord injuries, can disrupt neural pathways between the brain and the muscles, leading to…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The purpose of this project was to determine if a more thermostable Hemagglutinin H protein could be discovered. The research question is: What is the effect of Protein Engineering methods t…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, largely due to diagnosis at advanced stages when treatment is limited. Although low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) sc…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Motion-induced quicksand, or secondary rheology, refers to the sinking of an object into dry sand fluidized by distant movement in the same granular medium. In granular environments like des…
ISEF · 2026
Cellular and Molecular Biology
A hallmark of Alzheimer's disease is misfolded tau proteins, driven by hyperphosphorylation. This study investigates the structural stability of tau protein domains—N-terminal, proline-rich…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This project built upon last year’s research (2024-2025), testing the relationship between the final current (Cf) and the final temperature (Tf) of a cotton candy machine modified for plasti…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Worldwide, breast cancer kills 700,000 women annually. Although 5 years of tamoxifen (Tam) therapy cuts the risk of progression in half, 40% of patients develop resistance (TamR), driven by…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Globally, pests destroy over 40% of crops annually. Traditional pesticides are highly harmful to the environment and human health, and current application methods—either wasteful mass sprayi…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
E-cigarettes are a growing public-health concern, as new studies indicate that heavy metals, including lead, can be found in vape liquid. Despite this desperate need for research, the long-t…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
My project is a Chesapeake Bay case study simulation built using an existing Lagrangian tracking model, driven by real National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) current and wind da…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Benchmarks often fail to capture true large language model (LLM) trustworthiness, as models behave differently under evaluation than in real-world deployment. This research introduces a syst…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is a non-invasive treatment for esophageal, skin, and non-small-cell lung cancers that relies on light-activated drugs called photosensitizers to generate cytotoxi…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Data clustering is an unsupervised machine learning technique that groups similar data points together based on their characteristics. Although numerous data clustering algorithms have been…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Installed wind power capacity has tripled in the last decade, motivating significant research in wind turbine performance optimization. Traditional optimization methods often evaluate blades…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Alzheimer's is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by causes such as amyloid plaque accumulation, microglial dysfunction, and chronic neuroinflammation. Current treatments target the e…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
How efficiently a runner uses their energy at a submaximal pace is called an individual's running economy. Current running shoes incorporate a plate made from carbon fiber which results in a…