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 5221–5250
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Abstract: Stress Urinary Incontinence, also known as SUI, is the leakage of urine by vigorous activities such as coughing and sneezing when pressure is exerted on the urethra. SUI is prevale…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In last year's study, open-cell lignin foams were prepared from Kraft lignin through a simple baking process. Lignin foams demonstrated good biosorbent capabilities for removing heavy metals…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Microplastic pollution is becoming an increasing threat to the viability of marine organisms and ecosystems. The concentration of these particles actively parallels humanity's increasing nee…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Recent approaches in cancer immunotherapy revolve around encapsulating immunostimulatory molecules within nanoparticles and using systemic delivery to deliver them into the tumor, generating…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning coal for industrial and energy purposes account for a sizable portion of the United States total CO2 emissions. Commercially viable CO2 sequestrat…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Access to clean water is a major challenge in many developing counties partly due to municipal and industrial pollution. Thus, developing low-cost technologies to provide clean water is vita…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Mississippi River carries an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution into the Gulf of Mexico every year. This pollution has turned more than 18,000 square miles of the Gu…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
My science fair project is intended to help people who like to do art. I love to draw and mistakes are inevitable so I decided to make my project about removing permanent marker ink. My expe…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project demonstrates that a new paradigm in energy storage should be considered. Materials science engineers have historically focused on creating ever more energy dense materials to ge…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Every year in the United States, 133 billion pounds of food waste is produced, of which 68% is potentially edible. At the same time, 35.2 million people in the U.S. struggle with food insecu…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project investigates porous concrete as a potential mitigation tactic for the surface runoff of tire wear particles (TWP). To maintain grip on the road, a tire gradually wears down its…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
3D printing also known as additive manufacturing is an area of technology that has been on a rapid rise in recent years. Through the use of 3D printing it has become easier to manufacture an…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Applications of machine learning (ML) to the cancer pathology field will lead to earlier and more accurate cancer diagnosis. Cancer must be treated in its early stages for the treatment to b…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Award
The CRISPR Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex is well known for its precise gene editing abilities. Catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) also has diverse applications, including base editing, C…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Printable inks, both synthetic and soy-based, require chemical separation during the recycling process resulting in contaminated wastewater and the release of dangerous volatile organic comp…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
The future of food production involves physiological growing adaptions to nutrients that will increase the nutritional value of crops. This study tests the ability of lettuce biofortificatio…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Plastic pollution is a major pandemic for the environment. For the last 27 years, over 9.5 million volunteers have collected 163 million pounds of garbage from more than 330,000 miles of coa…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
There are 5 outbreaks that have happened in 2019, which have been estimated to have caused over 400 illnesses and waste over 500,000 pounds of food in the US. The current system of treating…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
The purpose of the Rotating Weekly Pill Dispenser is to assist with medication compliance among older people and allow a caregiver to lock medication into organized compartments that automat…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Every year in California, broken utility poles and conductors ignite approximately 500 fires. In 2017 and 2018, four utility-caused fires destroyed 27,000 buildings, killed 133 people, and c…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry Second Award
There exist evolutionarily-conserved genetic similarities between signals for planarian regeneration and human inflammation. The ROS-activated TRPA1 ion channel is implicated in planarian re…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Intragenomic conflict occurs when selfish genes attempt to increase their own prospects of replication at the expense of the organism. It has clinical and ecological significance–the genes a…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
Polyurethane foam, a material valued across countless industries for its high performance and versatility, is composed of hazardous, nonrenewable petrochemicals that continuously off-gas int…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
The COVID-19 Pandemic emphasizes the need for a Track, Trace, and Isolate approach (TTI) in society. Solutions (like mobile apps and Bluetooth devices/sensors) proposed for COVID-19 risk man…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Peripheral nervous system (PNS) demyelinating diseases, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, are characterized by nerve impulse conduction anomalies. These anomalies can be caused by demyelinati…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
If passed, a recent proposal by the EPA will take away the Clean Water Act’s protection of intermittent headwater streams which make up around 9 million of America’s stream miles. Due to the…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics have become ubiquitous in marine ecosystems. Toxic chemicals can leach from microplastics posing significant health risks to marine life. Removal of microplastics is difficult…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
Vision, one of the most important senses for survival, depends on the detection of light by the eye. Antarctic icefish live in an environment where there is no sunlight for six months of the…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The areas of the brain that become active when someone formulates a lie, or “deceit patterns”, are denoted on fMRI scans, yielding results that are more accurate than the polygraph. Using pu…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems
In the United States forty percent (2.4 million) of all six million accidents a year on average are caused by rear end collisions. Given these statistics our mission is to design a system th…