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 4111–4140
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
West Nile virus (WNV) is the leading mosquito-borne disease in the United States but is not currently preventable through vaccination or treatable by any medications. It has caused over 2,50…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Many water sources contain emerging contaminants (contaminants whose water presence has only recently been confirmed) that lead to debilitating health and environmental effects, yet current…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Large biomedical datasets routinely consist of more data points than can be displayed faithfully on a computer monitor. Computer screens are incapable of representing high-volume datasets wi…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Milled rice is deficient in almost all major classes of nutrients except carbohydrates. Poor nutrition of rice has resulted in severe malnutrition problems in developing countries where the…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Oral diseases such as tooth decay are expected to affect roughly 3.5 billion individuals worldwide. In most developing countries, access to primary oral health treatments is limited due to a…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Most plastics are made of polyethylene terephthalate, a polymer that is nearly indestructible, taking centuries to decompose. To be more environmentally-friendly, there are substitutes avail…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The goal of my project was to design a system that cooled a solar cell using the renewable energy of the sun. Knowing that a cooled solar cell performs better than a non-cooled solar cell I…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
The purpose is to determine the potential to reduce linear acceleration and tangential velocity during front and rear oblique impacts of a football helmet facemask. Independent Variables: No…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The purpose of this project was to create a more efficient drone that was still stable enough to fly FPV. The design I am using is a large central propellor to generate most of the thrust an…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This experiment tests the efficiency of three different metal electrodes in the process of hydrolysis. The hypothesis of the experiment is that the catalysts will have an effect on the effic…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Gravitational-wave (GW) detections of merging neutron star-black hole (NSBH) systems probe astrophysical neutron star (NS) and black hole (BH) mass distributions, especially at the transitio…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Streptococcus mutans causes an accumulation of reactive oxygen species in the oral cavity, damaging tissue as salivary antioxidants are depleted. I hypothesized that a hibiscus treatment wou…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if bioactive glass (BG) would be a good substitute for antibiotics resistant to Staphylococcus bacteria. BG are bioceramics which can be used…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
Arm injuries are common among all age groups. However, there are not many accessible ways for a patient with an arm injury to perform their rehabilitation while in a home-based environment w…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award
Climate change can be solved, but the window is closing. 90% of goods move by cargo ships, resulting in 4% of climate change emissions. There is a need for climate change technology that wor…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry
Since an effective and reliable antiviral drug against COVID-19 (caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus) has not been developed, research on novel therapeutic targets is crucial. The RdRp protein of…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science Second Award
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by toxic aggregates formed by amyloid beta (AB) and tau, which kill memory and learning neurons. With only symptomatic treatments for mild-moderate…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Phosphates are a major pollutant in waterways, coming from fertilizer runoff. Using varying concentrations of phosphate, species of algae, and light levels, I tested the hypotheses that alga…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
There is an unprecedented global mental health and substance abuse crisis including prescription drugs, affecting adults and youth. A recent FDA guidance requires abuse liability testing in…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
The hearts of humans as well as Daphnia magna are striated and neurogenic. In humans, substances that induce sleep also lower blood pressure and heart rate. Research indicates that when D. m…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
The remarkable ability of planarian flatworms to heal severe wounds, replenish missing tissue, and recreate missing organs has long captivated biologists, but across the hundreds of planaria…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death in the world. Because humans form few cardiomyocytes post-birth, engineering new myocardium could transform the treatment of heart…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Solving various social problems—such as environmental pollution and epidemics—requires the majority of the community members to pursue behavioral change. The type of behavior adopted is dete…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Protein kinases are important anticancer drug targets due to their crucial role in regulating key biochemical and cellular processes. Polo-like kinase 1 (PLK-1) is a key regulatory marker fo…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science Second Award
This study evaluated the cytotoxicity of two Centella asiatica (CA) methanolic leaf extracts on the metastatic, triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) cell line MDA-MB-231. CA is a plant regio…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Harmful algae blooms (HABs) containing cyanobacteria significantly lower oxygen levels in natural bodies of water, killing organisms in marine or freshwaters. They also produce microcystins,…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSC) utilize fluorescent dyes in a transparent material to absorb diffuse radiation in the ultraviolet region and re-emit it as visible light. The emitted li…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry Fourth Award
As of April 2022, there have been 500 million cases and 6.18 million deaths from COVID-19 worldwide. Current treatments are limited, thus necessitating the development of an effective therap…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is an autoimmune disease that develops in humans resulting from inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. This is due to an overabundance of myeloid cells…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry
The current pectin industry is built around the utilization of orange peels (citrus sinensis) as the most commercially viable option for pectin harvesting. Current estimates of pectin conten…