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 7741–7770
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
There remains a continued need for inexpensive techniques for filtering out heavy metals from contaminated water. Studies have shown efficacy of biochar (pyrolyzed organic matter) for heavy…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Third Award
This project, which is in number theory, explores the connections between quaternions and primitive Pythagorean quintuples. It is known that the square of a Gaussian integer (a complex numbe…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
In this research, MDA-MB-231 cells were placed in a microfluidic device in order to determine the effects of fluid flow on breast cancer circulating tumor cells. The cells were trapped in th…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics consist of small plastic particles in commercial products as well as plastics that degrade in the environment. Microplastic pollution is of growing concern because microplastic…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
The reason behind this experiment was to discover the identity of a material found in an old classroom. In order to accomplish this goal, we observed the physical characteristics of the meta…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
The misprocessing of amyloid-ß precursor protein (APP) has been genetically linked to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) as a major causative factor for the disease. Cleavage of APP by ß-site APP clea…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
This experiment was conducted as an effort to further technology utilized to better protect humans from this radiation. The goal in performing this experiment was to determine if carbon nano…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
In 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster released a considerable amount of radioactive materials into the environment. In the time after the disaster, the government had a deficit of…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Irreparable DNA lesions caused by radiation therapy induce apoptosis, a suicidal response that occurs in both cancerous and normal cells. Remarkably, mouse and human tissues in experiments t…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
The goal of my project was to develop a polymer blend that would allow the consumer waste stream to be used as an additive manufacturing feedstock. I designed my experiment to determine if a…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This engineering project studies ancient art mediums by recreating ancient paints from iron oxide, charcoal, and animal fat. To test the experiment, iron oxide and charcoal were mixed with d…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the most common type of open heart surgery performed in the United States, and the surgery most commonly involves harvesting the saphenous vein and…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Test-Taking Anxiety is an issue that impacts students worldwide, it occurs through the stress-response system, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. If Test Anxiety is untreated it can le…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Turfgrass is extremely important to many homeowners, athletes, and other people. It gives homeowners’ lawns a healthy, aesthetic appeal. Athletes use turfgrass to play sports. One fundamenta…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
At first glance, diabetic kidney disease and cancer may seem to have little in common besides sharing high mortality rates. Diabetic kidney disease is a condition in which increased glucose…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Medical professionals have struggled to develop delivery systems for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to mitigate inconsistent dosage and inconvenience from traditional forms of drug…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Microfluidics is a technology that operates with fluids in sets of miniature channels. Using small samples allows for reduced cost, harmful waste, reaction time, and analysis time. Microflui…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
The number of reptiles kept as pets in the United States alone currently stands at 9.4 million and all of them are susceptible to lack of proper UVB exposure. UVB light is required for vitam…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Concrete is the most widely used construction material on the planet. The production of Portland cement, concrete’s major component, contributes 8% of the world’s human induced carbon dioxid…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Mimicking the human mind is paramount in modern research fields such as autonomous vehicle development. The accepted computational model of vision by Miconi et al. (2016) mimics the way huma…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
Restoration efforts of wild oysters are often unsuccessful, in that they do not produce a robust population of oysters that are able to successfully reproduce. Furthermore, the dynamics of w…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Research was conducted to determine relationships between fish species growth within three freshwater bodies in agricultural communities in Fulton County, Ohio. The objective was to resurvey…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Third Award
The research project aims to reveal slight changes along specific user defined temporal frequencies in live videos. Video images are captured by a commercial video camera and rendered into R…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT, Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome) is a genetic vascular disorder arising from endothelial cell proliferation and hypervascularization. Patients with HHT…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Stroke is an increasingly common injury in the world today and it can cause serious long-term problems with mobility in many body parts, including the arms and hands. Many researchers have d…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
GATA4 is a transcription factor critical in the developmental process and early differentiation of the gastrointestinal tract. Studies using genetically modified mouse models have shown GATA…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a musculoskeletal disease often caused by overuse or injury but recent literature has suspected G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling of cell surface receptors a…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), an aging related detriment, is the most common cause of mortality in the world. In addition, chemotherapy jeopardizes cardiovascular integrity and was shown to…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
Our project tested the theory that cattail roots could produce a sufficient amount of ethanol to be considered a viable supplement in the production of ethanol used as a clean burning fuel a…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical First Award
In this integrative research, two tunable plasmonic nanostructures were used to significantly increase the short circuit current output (Jsc), total current produced (A), maximum optical gen…