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 6781–6810
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
Formed millions of years ago, as islands when Florida was submerged underwater, the Florida Ridges have been undisturbed for the past millennia. The endemic plants living on the ridge have t…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
Iron-based superconductors (IBSCs) hold a promising future for exhibiting superconducting behavior at increasingly high critical temperatures (Tc), potentially leading to a wide range of app…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
The purpose of this investigation was building a reactor that combined carbon dioxide and water molecules into artificially synthesized carbohydrates and identifying those carbohydrates that…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Cigarette filters (CF) and plastic straws are the number one pollution source because they are not biodegradable. It could take up to 25 years to degrade CF and straws under UV light, but th…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Convenient and inexpensive colorimetric chemical sensors (like pH paper), which change color when exposed to chemicals with different concentrations, are attractive due to low cost, ease of…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Hypoxia (reduced oxygen) is common in many brain tumors, including gliomas. Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1 Alpha (Hif-1a) is upregulated and stabilized under hypoxic conditions, leading to tumor…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Oil spills and oil-contaminated industrial wastewater have raised major environmental concerns because of their catastrophic damages to marine and freshwater life, plants, animals, and human…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
This research project seeks to analyze the characterization of the Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (HER2) and the Dopamine Receptor D2 (DRD2) that is overexpressed in cancer cells. Th…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Reinforcement learning (RL) is an emerging field with numerous applications in a wide variety of fields, such as robotics, supply chain and network optimization, marketing, and more. Our res…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Environmental DNA (eDNA) detection is utilized to non-invasively detect logistically difficult to identify organisms. Genetic material shed into the environment is concentrated from samples…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This experiment is to determine if teenage females detect motion, shape, text, or color first in their peripheral vision. Three teenage females were tested with a vision protractor to determ…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
Future energy sources must be renewable and environmentally neutral to counteract the effects of the immense volume of carbon emissions that are released into the atmosphere by burning fossi…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Purpose: Shell waste contains useful compounds: chitin, calcium carbonate, and protein. Yet unlike plastics, they can naturally degrade in the environment. Inspired by the concept of marine…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
The purpose of this project is to provide those in need of visual aid with another option for safe navigation. I programmed and soldered an Arduino (small computer) to trigger speakers (base…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics Third Award
Dimensionality reduction techniques are becoming widely used in academia, business, and machine learning to reduce the time required to process a higher dimensional dataset. In this context,…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics Third Award
Given S, a set of n points contained in the unit square Q = [0, 1]^2, let f(S) denote the area of the largest axes-parallel rectangle that does not contain any of the points of S in its inte…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
An interesting dilemma in today’s society is that even in the most underdeveloped nations, there is an unprecedented, widespread access to smartphones. Adapting the increasing technological…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
Because of strong absorption of middle infrared (mid-IR) light by organic molecules in human tissue, mid-IR lasers have applications including laser surgery, tissue ablation, non-invasive me…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
As particle accelerators enter the high-luminosity era and begin operating at unprecedented beam energies, the resulting increase in radiation dosage is causing critical damage to these acce…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Cells are composed of membraneless organelles that form through self-assembly of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). These IDPs are thought to self-associate to form mesoscale protein…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
Caves are found on Earth and some extraterrestrial planets (e.g., Mars) where mineral precipitation and microbial growth allows for the formation and preservation of microbial biosignatures…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Physical Third Award
The recent global energy crisis has resulted in a push for the development and commercialization of renewable energy sources, most notably solar cells. In 2009, Kojima et. al. revolutionized…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
Supercapacitors (SC) are energy devices that have higher power densities and quicker charge times than lithium-ion batteries (LIB). The main issue with SC is their lower energy densities com…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
The need for clean, renewable energy sources is critically important as fossil fuels are consumed and environmental damage increases globally. Ethanol is a useful and versatile energy source…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Advances in the mobility of bone marrow transplants have benefited many different types of people from all aspects of the socioeconomic ladder. This project demonstrates the process of cryop…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Modern research laboratories place a strong emphasis on image-processing, which commands a great deal of human resources and time on a daily basis. Fluorescence Confocal Microscopes, a tool…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Free radical damage to skin caused by particulate matter and ultraviolet (UV) radiation takes over nine million lives per year. Current creams can be remedial barriers; however, particles, (…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Diabetes is one of the most prevalent diseases on Earth. The most commonly used pharmaceutical to treat diabetes is metformin HCl. Attention and alarm over the environmental effects of this…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Approximately 7 x 10^8 kilograms of dye are produced annually and 15% are released into aquatic bodies, causing global human and environmental health problems. Many conventional purification…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
New York City process approximately 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater daily and with such quantities, wastewater treatment has become increasingly energy intensive and costly (DEP, 2016). In…