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 5041–5070
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
Curcuma caesia and Curcuma longa (turmeric) have been found to have anti-cancer agents. Both turmeric species were used to determine the ability to inhibit cellular pathways targeted in Neur…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a psychiatric illness characterized by the deliberate restriction of caloric intake, which can result in a slowed metabolic rate, hyperactivity, and dysbiosis of the…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Cellulosic biofuels are a potential solution to the renewable energy crisis but are currently too expensive to be actualized. Economic, eco-friendly, and efficient cellulosic biofuels from i…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
Current COVID-19 testing is invasive and requires certain equipment, making screening difficult without such devices. Furthermore, when testing can be expedited, it often brings with it a su…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
Snails are seemingly harmless animals in agricultural ecosystems: they are decomposers that feed off rotting vegetation and surplus soil nutrients. However, in order to move and maintain hom…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
On average, beef cattle have twins once in every 100 births or a 1% twinning rate. My family’s herd of 35 cattle had five sets of twins in the 2020 calving season, which is 14% of the herd.…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Third Award
Topdrops, a mapping of permutations first introduced by John Horton Conway, is examined. Topdrops has so far been under-researched compared to the similar topswops variant. A proof that the…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Fourth Award
Plant-parasitic nematodes account for 14% crop losses globally and $157 billion lost annually. Root-knot nematodes are yield-limiting and threaten crop production. Toxic chemicals, such as o…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Year 3 of this project tested how the filtration system can further be improved upon. A filtration system was created that runs off of only solar energy and ocean currents to filter the ocea…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
Bacteriophages are specific viruses that are able to infect bacteria. Multiple phage varieties have been found for multiple types of bacteria. Because of the interactions between phages and…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Cognitive Bias, often referred to as “subjective reality”, is the unconscious tendency to have a preference for something based on previous experiences or knowledge. Since all people have pa…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
As a result of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have increasingly become depressed and lonely. This is having a significant effect on high-risk senior citizens and virtual…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of my experiment was to determine whether I can use the Equation of Continuity as a predictor for convergent nozzle design performance for subsonic exhaust flow during wind tunne…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Within this culture of choice, there is a need for a new, more helpful and descriptive model of adolescent Jewish identity formation that portrays the crucial role individual choices play in…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Jumping spiders, the largest family of spiders, perform body saccades -- or turning toward stimuli in a series of brief, rapid turns rather than a continuous motion -- when tracking moving o…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
Space debris of any size can cause irreparable damage to multimillion-dollar satellites. Satellites typically dodge space debris via an orbital maneuver drawing from their finite fuel supply…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Kawasaki disease (KD) is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children, and its early diagnosis is crucial for effective intravenous immunoglobulin treatment within ten days, signi…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Huge amount of fat, oil and grease (FOG) in the food waste enters the sewer system on daily basis and finally form “fatbergs” which can lead to significant economic loss and are costly to re…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of my project is to show the feasibility of useful machine learning applications on a small scale and with low performance requirements, allowing it to run on common devices and…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Mosquitoes, particularly the Aedes genus, are responsible for the transmission of Zika, Dengue, West Nile, and Malaria, which have no vaccines/treatments available. These result in 700millio…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
To prevent the leaching of contaminated water (leachate) into the surrounding environment, current landfills utilize a system of liners that often contain Bentonite powder, a material intend…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Third Award
Real world mathematical models are often built to incorporate dynamical features like Lebesgue measure preservation, but the algebraic, group theoretical properties of dynamical systems have…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this research was to determine how Lemna minor could supplant commercial fertilizers and result in lower nitrate and phosphate levels in runoff. A null hypothesis states that…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
E-cigarette usage is growing in popularity, however the correlation between frequent e-cigarette use and ensuing respiratory disease remains unexplored. To that end, a correlation between ex…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences
To combat pathogens, plants have evolved a battery of defense mechanisms that first require recognition of Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns (MAMPs). These macromolecules are conserved e…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In densely populated mountain valleys like Utah’s Salt Lake Valley, air pollution is a constant concern. Cold inversions trap PM2.5 in winter, creating smog-like haze, and hot summer months…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software Second Award
The necessity of developing and deploying interactive web applications quickly has become more prevalent over the last decade, resulting in developers creating libraries and frameworks to si…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are widely used to carry out segmentation tasks in biomedical images. Most DNNs developed for this purpose are based on some variation of the encoder- decoder U-Ne…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems
Recent advancements in Cloud Computing have given more flexibility to services on the Internet, remaining online as long as the network itself is still operational. However, many types of na…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) is an inhibitory receptor that provides a checkpoint against autoimmunity. The PD-1:PD-L1 signalling pathway inhibits T cell function, which allows cancer cell…