504 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
504 projects · showing 61–90
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The increasing demand for high-performance electric motors in electric vehicles and modern appliances has intensified the reliance on rare earth metals for permanent magnets. However, concer…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Global pest infestations cause over 220 billion in crop losses and approximately 700,000 human deaths each year. Traditional pesticides not only harm human health and the environment but als…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Neurodegenerative disease therapeutic development faces hurdles from multi-omic complexity and the poor interpretability of standard ML models (e.g., MLPs), limiting target discovery. We dev…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry
Despite being the sixth most fatal cancer worldwide, esophageal cancer is largely overlooked. The high mortality rate of esophageal cancer stems largely from its high metastatic capability.…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software
This project investigated whether Meta's Interaction SDK was sufficient for accurate American Sign Language (ASL) detection. This was tested in a virtual reality (VR) environment in an attem…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Worldwide temperatures are rising due to increased greenhouse gas emissions, and energy production and consumption are the largest contributors. The purpose of this experiment was to assess…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Over 300,000 cetaceans die every year due to human activity–primarily ship collisions and fishing entanglements–with roughly 67% of all whale deaths attributed to human interactions. Many wh…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Quadrotors, or drones, have the distinct potential to streamline wildlife observation research efforts, which, in turn, focus on improving the biodiversity and carbon sequestration of ecosys…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Increasing prevalence of remotely operated and autonomous underwater vehicles necessitates engineering propulsion systems that maximize thrust while aiming to limit anthropogenic-sourced noi…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Remarkable declines in migratory songbird populations necessitate the investigation of persistent gaps in the study of migration ecology. As songbirds in active migratory passage have proven…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and chronic disease in the United States. Current glucose monitoring devices require painful blood sticks that lead to poor monitoring adherenc…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The m6a methylation of the TAR region promotes neuroinflammation in HIV-1 neurocognitive disorders. This is facilitated by the RBM15 protein recognizing and binding U-rich bulges to act as a…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Olfaction or the sense of smell plays a fundamental role in the animal kingdom's survival and may serve a marker for human disease, including mental disorders. This study’s objectives are: 1…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
The NOAA defines microplastics as "plastic pieces less than five millimeters long." Microplastics have been found from the Mariana Trench to Mount Everest, and from the human brain to the pl…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences
The limited variety of weed suppression treatments has contributed to herbicide resistance in several invasive species, threatening crop yields and global food security. Allelopathy—the natu…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
In modern spacecraft, hydrocarbon-based rockets can only reach a Specific Impulse (Isp) of 300-400s. This relatively low efficiency will be an issue on future, long-distance, space missions…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
The presence of microplastics in the human body has been recently discovered, but little is known about whether they can cause harm to bodily systems. This experiment uses C. Elegans as a ba…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
The aerodynamic efficiency of a rocket is significantly influenced by the geometry of its nose cone. The shape of the nose cone directly affects drag, a resistive force that opposes motion a…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
Strokes are a leading cause of global mortality and disability, with ischemic strokes accounting for the majority of cases. Even worse, the current treatment for ischemic stroke, tissue plas…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have emerged as a promising therapy for late-stage lung cancer. However, the response rate to ICIs remains low. As a result, there is a need to better und…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry Third Award
Alzheimer’s is a terrible neurodegenerative disease affecting millions of individuals around the world. However, all FDA approved drugs for the illness offer only symptomatic treatment and h…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Microglial cells have the ability to engulf HIV-1 infected glial cells by binding to neuronal blebs, effectively stopping the subsequent encephalopathy. However, two HIV-1 accessory proteins…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Current commercial and research-grade prosthetics lack fine motor movements and have limited degrees of freedom. These functional limitations force the amputee to compensate, which causes ot…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
With over 150,000 new amputees each year, the need for more affordable, fully functional prosthetics continues to grow. The aim of this project is to create a cost-effective prosthetic hand…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Ocular melanoma is one of the rarer types of aggressive cancer. The only option for someone with this cancer is to undergo radiation or surgery. In both cases, there is a high likelihood of…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is an endocrine disorder characterized by hormonal imbalance due to excessive levels of androgens and affects approximately 10% of women. Caenorhabditis eleg…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
This study proposes a generative AI procedure for managing land resources to optimize the payoff between economic and environmental benefit. Randomly selected land usage images in the northe…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Wastewater Injection is the practice of injecting leftover wastewater from industrial practices such as fracking and liquid and gas extraction operations underground. With the rise of these…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
For decades, lung cancer has been the leading cause of cancerous deaths worldwide. Much of lung cancer's lethality is attributed to its high incidence of tumor relapse and drug resistance. I…
ISEF · 2024
Microbiology Second Award
Fusarium is a genus of fungi that produces biofilms, a collection of microbial cells that confer high antifungal resistance to opportunistic Fusarium pathogens, which cause lethal infections…