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 7681–7710
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Exposure to organic environmental contaminants in water supplies can lead to adverse health effects. Non-thermal plasmas have been proposed for waste-water treatment as a means to degrade or…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Rapidly emergent within the scientific community are drug delivery systems, complex amalgamations of medicinals consolidated into a controllable vehicle that seeks to maximize immediacy and…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Organic polymeric materials have attracted extensive attention for optical devices, consumer electronics, and biomedical tools due to their combination of optical, electrical, mechanical, an…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
As the human population continues to increase, aggravating mosquito disease transmission, a control measure for mosquitoes is imperative. Mosquito control using sound would be an improvement…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
The presence of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in a patient's blood may indicate the aggressiveness of metastatic cancer, and the detection of CTCs can assist physicians in decision making a…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Diabetes is a multi-factorial disorder, characterized by chronic elevation of glucose in the blood. Chronic exposure to high glucose (HG) is a leading cause of cell damage, which is responsi…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Better understanding fruit growth and development could result in an increase in the world’s food and feed supply. This project employed classical molecular approaches together with a new ge…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Fourth Award
The opioid epidemic has reached alarming levels and was declared a national public health emergency. Use of street available opioids such as heroin have doubled and deaths from overdose have…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology First Award
Epstein-Barr virus is an oncogenic herpesvirus which causes over 150,000 fatalities annually and has no FDA-approved treatment. Latent EBV is characterized by limited gene expression, which…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Organ transplantation is facing a number of increasingly worrisome problems. Organ shortage threatens an increase in waitlisted patient’s mortality. Incompatibility and immunosuppressive com…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
A rapid, inexpensive, and non-invasive warning mechanism for imminent stroke and epileptic seizures was developed using gold nanoparticle-hydrogel composites. Stroke is the third leading cau…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), or the theory of the strong interaction, states that at the high temperatures and densities produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, nucleons de- confine…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical
High rise buildings waste the energy generated from millions of liters of falling water every day. They typically use a booster pump system, which requires substantial amounts of energy for…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
The Collatz function is defined as follows: start with a positive integer x. If x is odd, multiply it by three and add one, and if x is even, divide it by two. A recursion of this function c…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Robots are starting to interact more frequently with a dynamic environment, outside limited manufacturing sites, encounter a difficulty when needed to navigate from one location to another.…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
We hypothesize there exists an optimum nanostructure size and material to detect changes in the environment via optical responses. We perform this study to build the foundation for more exte…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
The objective of this research project is to define the optimal circadian rhythm, or length of night and day periods, of bioluminescent, or glowing, dinoflagellate algae for lengthening the…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Cancer immunotherapy is an important alternative to traditional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation, reducing the toxicity and negative side effects. By eliciting an immune respons…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Epilepsy is a very common and devastating neurological disorder that affects 65 million people globally. Electroencephalography (EEG) recording is an essential tool in evaluating seizure act…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
In a vastly increasing energy dependent society, there is need for the transportation of energy quickly and efficiently. Laser power beaming and transferring energy with fiber optic cables a…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
Fuel costs, depletion of energy resources, and emissions are environmental concerns in many industries today. Even a small improvement in burner efficiency could potentially save millions of…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
In bacteria, cellular energy is largely consumed by two essential functions: reproduction and chemotaxis, the behavior where single-celled organisms swim up a gradient of nutrients. When bot…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Feeding nine billion people is a daunting task, but the reality we will face by the mid twenty-first century. Population growth and climate change will require alteration of agricultural pra…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Synthetic biology seeks to imbue living cells with complex genetic circuits that execute localized logical computations. These genetic circuits are usually composed of multiple genes express…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Second Award
Reinforcement learning (RL) is an AI/machine learning technique capable of learning complex Markov decision process state-action behaviors from thousands of simulation to learn advanced deci…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
The start date for the current project is August of 2017 and the end date is May 2018. The hypothesis for this project is if a Multi-Layer MFC or a MFC with other various amendments can be s…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology Second Award
The purpose of this science project was to optimize the ratios of Manuka honey solution to adhesive in an antibacterial surgical adhesive. Specifically, the different ratios were investigate…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
The purpose of this experiment was to examine the Staphylococcus aureus found on most types of band instruments. Can the bacteria found on band instruments be potential pathogens for the hum…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Chemical Dispersant is primarily used to reduce the size of oil droplets, effectively preventing oil spills from causing environmental havoc at water-surface level. While standard chemical d…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
This project intent to determine the feasibility of making organic arch support out of plastics made from milk and vinegar mixture. The researchers hypothesized that if organic plastics be m…