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 4261–4290
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Protein-protein interactions guide essential life processes, including DNA repair. Nucleolin has many roles, but few efforts have been made to fully characterize its role in DNA repair. In t…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on mental health due to the increased stress caused by the mental toll of events of the pandemic and isolation from necessary preventative measures s…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Infectious diseases are a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Among the major pathogens, SARS-CoV-2 is a coronavirus causing the current COVID-19 pandemic. MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV also belon…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Isoniazid (INH) is a ?rst line drug for the treatment of Tuberculosis, a disease that causes 1.5 million deaths per year. This drug has high e?cacy in TB-treatment, but can also lead to live…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
I will display how easy 3D printing can be and overall how the use of one 3D printer in just a single household can reduce waste and potentially contribute to the halt of global warming. In…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Excessive hemorrhage is a leading cause of mortality for civilians and military personnel under 50 years of age. The current treatment of donor derived platelet transfusion, is riddled with…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics Third Award
My research deepens connections between the two seemingly very different mathematical fields of algebraic combinatorics and algebraic geometry. In particular, I focus on the Bruhat order, a…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Material fabrication is an inherently irreversible process, with only a limited number of elements available for use and finite reservoirs of these elements on Earth. Programmable matter, an…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The Dana Glacier, a small Little Ice Age cirque glacier in the Sierra Nevada mountains, is rapidly retreating due to climate change. To predict when the Dana Glacier will disappear, I measur…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Deaf and hard-of-hearing people often use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate. Since ASL interpreters are frequently inaccessible, affordable robotic interpreters are a promising alt…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Under UV light, titanium dioxide performs photocatalytic reactions which produce harmful reactive oxygen species such as hydrogen peroxide, which causes phytoplankton mortality. Project Tita…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems First Award
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are around 1.3 billion visually impaired people, 36 million of which are blind. A predicted 79 million more will be blind in the next…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Bromelain is a potentially useful enzyme derived from pineapple plants that may protect cells from sun exposure. We tested whether bromelain sourced from pineapple waste could protect cells…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
The current mainstream idea for oxygen production on Mars has inefficiencies and produces the dangerous byproduct of hydrogen. I have developed a system that offers a resource-efficient alte…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
“Studies have shown that children with absent fathers are at a higher risk of having behavioral problems, 4 times more likely to live in poverty, 2 times more likely to never graduate high s…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry Fourth Award
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) has been connected to changes in liver function, immunity issues, thyroid disease, and kidney and testicular cancer. Due to these effects, PFOA is banned for us…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Pura Aer (PA) is an air purifier system that repurposes disposable face masks and integrates a peregrine falcon-inspired fan design. PA was developed in four phases, with design criteria set…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Background: The aim of my project was to explore whether music theory techniques exert objective emotional effects on listeners and assess the effect of age, gender, race, and musical expert…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry
This experiment was performed to see if the bioluminescence of Pyrocystis fusiformis would diminish over time after being exposed to a circadian rhythm that does not include both light and d…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In the pursuit of increasingly robust artificial intelligence, it is useful to look towards nature for inspiration. Neuroevolution does just this by simulating Darwinian-style natural select…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software
When quantum computers were first conceived of by Richard Feynman, the algorithm that motivated it was the simulation of quantum systems. Rapid performance of simulating quantum systems has…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over the past few decades, urban areas have been experiencing expedited rates of vegetation growth, a phenomenon known as “urban greening.” The increased vegetation growth and greening trend…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Linguistic polarization is a change in frequency of policy references in a representative’s lexicon. When incumbent representatives face challengers, they may change their speech patterns to…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Millions of people in the USA alone suffer from celiac disease or gluten intolerance. In previous work, I identified three fruit-derived enzymes that when combined have an efficient effect i…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software
Quantum computers promise to revolutionize several scientific fields by solving and simulating certain problems significantly faster than their classical counterparts. However, very few peop…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Around 3.8 million women in the US are diagnosed with breast cancer. In terms of the survival rate, late or misclassified diagnosis decreases an individual’s chance of survival from 90% to j…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Earthquakes are a major global risk, causing the most fatalities among all natural disasters and billions of dollars in damages. Current earthquake early warning (EEW) systems face significa…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics
With over 400 million annual infections ranging over the Americas, Asia, and Africa, dengue fever is classified as the disease most frequently transmitted by mosquitoes. Proper medication fo…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to develop a bio-conjugated nanomaterial to rapidly detect COVID-19 and to block the binding of the spike protein from SARS-CoV-2 to the ACE-2 receptor on the…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, has resulted in millions of deaths. Rare immune cells are minor cell types with reduced frequency, and their function in COVID-19…