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 661–690
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
I was investigating and tracking the kinds of pollen that different colonies were collecting. Specifically local hives vs. domesticated hives. I compared four different hives, two which were…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
Oil spills cause large-scale destruction of marine ecosystems and economies. Current remediation methods primarily rely on mechanical recovery, typically recovering only 2-6% of spilled oil.…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Carotenoids are lipid-soluble dietary pigments and vitamin A precursors that regulate gene transcription via RARA and RXRA nuclear receptors. Retinoid signaling controls differentiation, pro…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences
Powdery mildew is one of the most widespread and damaging agricultural diseases in the world. As the nation's leading agricultural region, Fresno, California’s 9 billion annual crop revenue…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
Diethylene glycol DEG contamination in medicinal syrups represents a persistent global health crisis, having caused over 300 child fatalities since 2022 alone, and occurring recently as of O…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences
Salinity in soil is one of the greatest environmental stressors for plants. It has been estimated that worldwide 20% of total cultivated and 30% of irrigated agricultural lands are afflicted…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
More than 50 million tons of electronic equipment waste is generated per year, creating a strong demand for sustainable conductive materials. Yet, biodegradable conductive materials face a c…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
Plastic recycling is limited by mis-sorting across polymer families and additives. Current identification methods, such as SPI resin codes, labels, and visible/near-infrared/Fourier Transfor…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
Reducing carbon emissions in modern engineering has a critical tradeoff: materials must be lightweight to improve energy efficiency, yet strong enough to maintain structural integrity. Polye…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
An estimated 92 million tons of textiles are discarded annually, yet fabric-to-fabric recycling accounts for less than 1% of production due to quality degradation and financial barriers. Thi…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Suborbital research access costs $30k-$90k per mission, pricing out universities and independent researchers. Current reusable rockets depend on throttleable liquid engines for landing, whic…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastic (MP) contamination is a persistent environmental and public health threat, with polyethylene terephthalate (PET) MPs detected in drinking water, human blood, and placental tissu…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
The healing process for severe thermal skin burns is often impeded by inflammation in the wound site and apoptosis, or programmed cell death. Typical treatment for burn wounds revolves aroun…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project investigated which type of prompt would generate the most educationally effective response from Gemini as perceived by ninth grade students. Three ninth grade classes completed…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common malignant brain cancer in adults, and patient survival still remains low. However, 83% of GBM cases have Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase promoter (TERT…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive primary brain tumor. It is associated with poor survival and frequent development of resistance to the first-line chemotherapeutic agent temozolomid…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry
Acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) are proton-gated, voltage-insensitive transmembrane proteins activated in acidic conditions, playing crucial roles in neuronal signaling. ASIC subunit 1a is…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Hemorrhagic stroke occurs when a cerebral blood vessel ruptures, creating an urgent need for intervention to prevent fatality. Developing a neuroprotectant designed to form a synthetic barri…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
Following the infamous January 2025 Palisades Wildfire that devastated our Southern California community, an urgent need was identified for a lightweight respirator capable of protecting fir…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Minnesota’s 4 million drivers release heavy metals into the environment through their vehicles’ emissions. Copper, Lead, and Zinc account for 90% of vehicle-derived heavy metal pollution, wh…
ISEF · 2026
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Azole antifungals have served as frontline therapies for Candida infections. However, increasing azole-resistant Candida species presents a real clinical challenge requiring alternative anti…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infects 300 million people worldwide, causing 1.3 million annual deaths. Current treatments can suppress viral replication but fail to eliminate covalently closed cir…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Modern High-Throughput Screening (HTS) is a system used in drug discovery labs that can rapidly test hundreds of thousands of chemicals against a target in a disease with the aim of developi…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Partial-thickness burns make up 85.4% of all clinical cases (Ji et al., 2024). At the same time, those in underrepresented areas display higher burn incidences and are less likely to adminis…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
Wilderness search-and-rescue (SAR) operations across U.S. national parks exceed 4,000 to 4,500 incidents annually, with over 40,000 missions between 2015 and 2025. In August 2024, a multi-da…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Drug-resistant epilepsy affects nearly one-third of patients and often requires surgical intervention; however, success depends on accurate localization of the seizure onset zone (SOZ), curr…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
This project explored whether quantum batteries, which utilize the quantum mechanical principles of superposition and entanglement, have the potential to serve as an important energy storage…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum computers use the principles of quantum mechanics — superposition, entanglement, and coherence — to solve problems that classical computers simply cannot. In the current era of Noisy…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology
Phytochemicals are naturally occurring compounds in plants, relatively understudied for their ability to interfere with bacterial communication mechanisms, and the underlying modes of action…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This project aims to explore the mechanisms the rabies virus uses to evade the immune system while traveling through the nervous system. We are motivated by the challenge of comprehending ho…