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 6391–6420
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from mixed gas streams is vital for industrial flue gas remediation, fuel gas refining, and chemical production. Existing liquid amine technology is hampered by…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
The need for an effective, renewable water filter is greater than ever. One solution to this is novel carbon materials, with a potential source of these materials being cyanobacteria. Cyanob…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to test whether foods rich in High Density Lipoproteins (HDL’s) cholesterol would be successful in treating heart disease. Because heart disease is caused…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Abscission, the final stage of cytokinesis, is characterized by the separation of cells through the severing of the intercellular bridge at the midbody. Components of the Endosomal Sorting C…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
This study investigates the use of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) to create equivalent circuits for human keratinocyte cells in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Media (DMEM) with and…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
At what point do our psychological needs compel us to ignore possible health risks? Could we be turning a blind eye to the possibly harmful effects caused by a simple communication device? A…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNA molecules that are implicated in many gene expression pathways. Because they can degrade genes before translation, they have been extensively resea…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) comprises approximately 90% of all head and neck cancers and represents the sixth most common type of cancer worldwide. Surgery, radiotherapy an…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
This project sought to determine whether Dark Matter dominated galaxies are nucleated. In January of 2015, an article was published that sparked interest in the scientific community. The sci…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Bone implants are supporting structures in the body commonly used to treat fractures. Their integrity is threatened by bacterial biofilms that trigger an inflammatory response, loosening the…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Time resolved X-ray crystallography produces molecular movies of proteins at femtosecond resolution. The elucidation of an enzyme’s structural dynamics during its catalysis has major implica…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: There is in an estimated 7.9 million bone fractures annually in which 5-10% of these result in delayed healing and progression to chronic nonunions. One factor that has previously b…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Hydroxyurea (HU) is a ribonucleotide reductase inhibitor which is used to treat diseases such as HIV, sickle cell disease, and chronic myelogenous leukemia (1). Yet, new evidence suggests th…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science
Deregulation of the tumor suppressor p27kip1 results in the proliferation of common and aggressive cancers such as breast and prostate cancer. The purpose of this study is to investigate the…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Neurodegenerative disorders represent a global healthcare crisis impacting over 60 million individuals worldwide at an estimated cost of over 800 billion dollars, that is exacerbated by a re…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
The Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte galaxy is a dwarf, irregular galaxy located in the constellation Cetus, that has yet to be fully and accurately analyzed. RR Lyrae variable stars are short-period v…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Chemotaxis is the movement of an organism up and down a concentration gradient. The aim of this project is to test and observe the effects of different concentrations of glucose on the chemo…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
PURPOSE: Patients often need to use their arms to assist with functional activities but after open heart surgery pushing with the arms is limited to minimize force across the healing sternum…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
EEG (electroencephalogram) based identification systems have a myriad of applications ranging anywhere from scalable EEG systems for disease diagnostics, anti-epileptic drug administration,…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of creating machines that can perform tasks which normally require human abilities (e.g. visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making).…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
Magic squares are defined as matrices whose rows, columns, and main diagonals all add to the same number. They have existed and have been a topic of great interest since as early as 190 BCE,…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
This number theory project investigates identities found by multiplying together quaternions in L[x,y,z,w], the Lipschitz quaternions L adjoined with the indeterminates x, y, z, w. Recall th…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
Serratia marcescens is one of the most effective Gram-negative bacteria for degradation of chitin 1, 4-B-glucosamine, which is a major structural component of not only the exoskeletons of in…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Stuttering, a communication disorder in which the flow of speech is broken by repetitions, prolongations, or abnormal stoppages of syllables, affects tens of millions of people. Stuttering c…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences Third Award
12% of the global population is impacted by undernutrition, the number one risk to health worldwide, affecting one in three children in developing countries. Fresh produce has large nutritio…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Over the last few years lead has been a large problem throughout the United States (1). Lead has impacted many states, cities, and even schools (1). One such city, Flint, Michigan is current…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
The purpose of this experiment is producing and characterizing in a non-lab setting corn oil and beef lard-based diesels by process of transesterification as well as plastic-based diesel by…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
This experiment was performed to determine the most efficient pH buffer for the production of glucose in lignocellulosic biomass as a result of the enzymatic effects of cellulase. The lignoc…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
The purpose of this project is to identify the calories in freeze-dried and dehydrated foods and then conduct a taste test to discover which one people prefer. I purchased fruits, vegetables…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software
The distribution of resources over geographic area is a key issue that can be found in many different fields and industries. For example, when given limited resources to build a certain amou…