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 8101–8130
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Eye cancer has affected over 500,000 people worldwide in the past decade. Approximately 10% of people with eye cancer will die because it is not diagnosed early enough, causing it to metasta…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Environmental health and sustainability are major concerns for the twenty-first century. Therefore, this project was designed to create a sustainable, cost-efficient multi-step procedure tha…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to analyze the effectivity of 3D constructed external ears in conducting and transmitting various frequencies (Hz) and intensities (dB) of sound. This proc…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
The World Health Organization states that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Fourteen million people die annually from cardiovascular disease and stroke. Antipla…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
The goal of this project was to design a deformation sensor with optimal performance utilizing graphene nanoflake powder, having the potential to replace or rival current sensors on the mark…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
The Collatz conjecture is an unproven conjecture in mathematics; any initial input to the Collatz sequence will give an eventual output of one. The importance of proving the conjecture is du…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a form of a cancer treatment that involves administering a photosensitizing drug and irradiating it with an external light source. Upon exposure, the photosensi…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
The initial investigation of this project was to see if the salinity levels of water runoff would decrease after the application of a salt-tolerant grass buffer zone, activated carbon, or ca…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Today, increased tectonic plate activity in the Cascadia Megathrust Subduction Zone, located on the Pacific American Coast, has the potential to cause a high magnitude earthquake and resulti…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The formation of a hairpin core structure by the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) transmembrane glycoprotein gp41 is the critical event that triggers viral fusion to the host cell…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Third Award
The unique properties of gold nanorod's (GNR's) biosensing capability were applied to produce a multiplex, cost and time-effective, biodiagnostic assay for the early detection of multiple di…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Cancer is one of a vast collection of diseases that kills millions of people each year across the world. Normally helping to prevent cancer, tumor suppressor genes like Antigen NY-CO-13 (p53…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Desalination and purification of seawater could prevent droughts and give all humanity access to clean water. However, current desalination techniques like reverse osmosis (RO) are difficult…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Each year, 15 million infants—one in every ten born worldwide—are susceptible to hypothermia. This makes thermal stability a necessity for infant survival, with negligence of a stable enviro…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Melanoma is one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer, causing 80% of skin cancer mortalities. However, it is fully curable if diagnosed early. Diagnosis is conducted by visually examining l…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Ice cores extracted from ice sheets contain valuable information about the past atmospheric makeup inside air bubbles within the ice, which are measured by releasing the contents of trapped…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
The purpose of this experiment was to compare three types of auto-suturing (4, 5, & 6-sutures per segment) and control of continuous hand sutured anastomoses. It was hypothesized that if thr…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biodiversity is very important for environmental health since it adds to genetic variability, preventing soil erosion, and discovering new resources. Endemic plants add to the biodiversity o…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Third Award
Conducting polymers (CPs) combine the electronic properties of semiconductors with the biocompatibility and mechanical properties of polymers. However, the capabilities of CPs are limited by…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology Third Award
The current rise of multi-resistant bacterial strains has required increased development and production of new antimicrobial compounds. Research into the “cryptic biosynthetic pathways” of a…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Platelets, also known as thrombocytes, are one of the three blood cells of the human body that play a major role in the physiological process of hemostasis. Platelets, unlike erythrocytes, h…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The multiparameter CMOS optical sensor developed in this research utilizes visual parameters to determine the existence of microbial forms in water samples. Though current PCR and bacterial…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Cancer is among the leading causes of death around the world. Immunotherapies have the potential to improve cancer survival by utilizing the immune system for treatment and reducing radiatio…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
This project aims at challenging the underlying conjectures in many modern encryption systems. The problem of integer factorization, and its associated difficulty is solving, is essential to…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Detection of harmful chemicals used in industrial complexes is crucial in order to create a safer environment for the workers. Presently, most chemical detectors used in workplaces are expen…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
In the futuristic dystopia, The Minority Report starring Tom Cruise, the police would be at the crime scene before it occurred. Is this really possible? My project uses data science and mach…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Award
Cardiometabolic disease (CMD) is a cluster of correlated diseases. Risk of heart disease, the world’s leading cause of death, is greatly increased by metabolic syndrome, a combination of dia…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Parkinson’s disease (PD) diagnostic methods are hindered by lack of validated biomarkers, or objective indicators of disease onset. Clinical symptoms occur when up to 60% of dopamine neurona…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Since the last implementation of sociometrics in 1970, the dynamics of a school room, public opinion, and social classes has changed greatly. Our study was contrasted on comparing past class…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
This study aimed to take a novel approach to bacterial detection using a the chemical, 3-aminophthalhydrazide, also known as luminol. An additional goal of experimentation was to attempt to…