11705 projects whose affiliated fair was here, most recently in 2026.
ISEF records a state or province for some finalists and not others, so these counts do not add up to the country total.
11705 projects · showing 3031–3060
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In the last year, five student-athletes participating in high school basketball tore their ACLs. This project aimed to determine if a correlation exists between the Q-angle of an athlete’s k…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
While driving, mere seconds are the difference between life and death. These seconds are your reaction time. Teenage drivers are too relaxed at the wheel. They believe they are driving safel…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Hi-C, a chromosome conformation capture-based method, allows researchers to interrogate chromatin interactions between any two genomic loci in a bulk of cells and study the spatial arrangeme…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
Photometry is an area of astronomy that involves measuring the magnitude of stars and other celestial objects. Traditional photometry observations require thousands of dollars of equipment a…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
For seven decades, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has been psychiatrists’ diagnostic textbook-of-choice, but do its pages belong in 2023? The DSM’s problems…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Microbial DNA is a novel analyte for early cancer detection. Although recent studies have found distinct communities of bacteria and fungi between tumor types, they have not investigated mic…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Eco-Navigator, novel software, designs routes for ships to navigate to favorable wind and minimize fuel consumption. Wind-assisted shipping has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissio…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software
Student failure and dropout in universities are detrimental in many ways, costing $1700 on average in tuition fees, risking future financial aid, and prompting issues in mental health and mo…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Idiopathic Pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive, fibrotic lung disease with high morbidity and mortality with limited treatments currently available. A key feature of IPF is ai…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of my project is to determine whether there is a significant daily variability regarding sleep efficiency, heart rate variability, and percentage of time in deep non-REM sleep du…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
On the moon, rovers and humans disturb the surrounding lunar dust by moving, creating plumes of dust. When two objects collide, they may become tribocharged and carry a level of voltage due…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Grassland bird species are among the most vulnerable organisms in North America due to the reduction of available grassland habitat. Freshkills Park in Staten Island, NY, is an urban reclaim…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
With the increased necessity for sustainable agriculture comes the need to understand the complex systems plants use for growth. One of these systems is the GS/GOGAT cycle, a mechanism used…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Every day, tons of expanded polystyrene (Styrofoam) end up in landfills and waterways all over the world, doing incalculable harm to the environment. Previous studies have found that the Zop…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Climate change is a very current and real problem, and the most effective way to combat it would be to switch energy production from unsustainable fossil fuels to sustainable, renewable ener…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Planaria dorotocephala are flatworms that live in freshwater. Planarian have the ability to regenerate when injured or cut in half. Using FeHEDTA, a commercial herbicide, we tested if herbic…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The Keap1Nrf2 Pathway, responds to oxidative by signaling to the MHS1 complex to activate CD8 and CD4 T-cells via APCs. CD4 and CD8 T-cells function in conjunction to fight invading pathogen…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
In the experiment, four groups of five trees each were tested to determine if Pseudomonas fluorescens or Mycorrhizal fungi would improve the success rate of grafting with trees. The tests we…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Second Award
With climate change’s increasing impacts, we must reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, specifically methane, to lower the intensity of cascading disasters. In 2019, landfills contr…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Pollutants have been shown to affect soil characteristics, particularly soil pH. Microplastics, an increasingly widespread pollutant, increase soil pH, according to literature. To understand…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology Third Award
Phosphorus is a problematic pollutant; wastewater treatment plants use two methods to remove phosphorus from wastewater: chemical precipitation and biological nutrient removal. In the latter…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences
Methylmercury (MeHg) is a neuro-toxicant that disrupts neural processes and neurogenesis of animals in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems at sublethal levels. Recent studies using zebra finc…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
The concept of causality allows physicists to study the universe under the lens of cause-and-effect relations, to achieve a deeper understanding of the connections between events. More forma…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
Effectively utilizing atmospheric water is a sustainable solution to short-term water shortages. Fog water meets international safety standards and reduces the technical complexity and cost…
ISEF · 2023
Chemistry
Poor aqueous solubility is an increasing problem for achieving effective formulation and pharmacokinetic properties for novel small molecule oral therapies. This problem could be potentially…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Based on the last three years of research into alternative energy sources using microbial fuel cells (MFC) that answered which Utah lake mud, which electrode material, and which diameter gen…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The world's increasing demand for energy, combined with concerns over climate change, highlights the need for more sustainable energy sources. Piezoelectric energy harvesting is a renewable…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology First Award
Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles that interact with various cellular components, including the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). This essential interaction occurs through mitochondria-as…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Introducing an innovative solution to a long-standing problem: Aphasia. This debilitating condition, commonly suffered by stroke victims, severely impairs verbal communication abilities by d…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics Fourth Award
We investigate a special variant of chip-firing, in which we consider an infinite set of rooms on a number line, some of which are occupied by violinists. In a move, we take two violinists i…