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 8311–8340
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Propofol is the most common anesthetic agent used in the United States, but 60% of the time patients feel pain on injection (Jalota et al. 2011). This pain is hypothesized to be from the fre…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
The goal of this project is to address two main issues, climate change and the growing demand for energy. As we all know, the biggest reason why we have increased levels of CO2 emissions in…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Third Award
The Zika Virus (ZIKV) has recently been a major cause of concern in many parts of the world. ZIKV infections are linked to fetal and newborn microcephaly, a spectrum of abnormalities in the…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Toxic heavy metal contamination has become an impending global threat due to rapidly increasing diffusion by water from mining settlements and industrial factories. Current sensing methods a…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
Site-specific mutagenesis, also known as site-directed mutagenesis, is the specific and intentional introduction of mutations into a DNA sequence. This technique has many applications in res…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This investigation was based on inducing a major hallmark of Type II Diabetes (T2D), insulin resistance (IR), in Drosophila melanogaster (DM) through high Sucrose diets (HSD) and characteriz…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
In this project, sustainable dye sensitized solar cells were optimized by fabrication of a novel organic dye composition which improved the stability and efficiency of the cell. A dye materi…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
This study of the Jovian system aims to determine the patterns of deviation magnitude produced from the orbital trajectories of the Galilean satellites based on three different parameters: t…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the name for a group of developmental disorders. ASD includes a range of symptoms, skills, and levels of disability. According to the Centers for Disease Co…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This research examines the hypothesis that intrinsic antibiotic resistance differs according to habitat. I think that the biofilm is creating an environment that is causing the microbes on t…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Peripheral neuropathy afflicts 20 million United States citizens and leads to sensory loss in the extremities as well as infection, injury, and amputation. Daily ambulation alone can cause d…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
FACT is a complex of 2 subunits: SSRP1 and SPT16. Both subunits are required to be present and associated with each other through their dimerization domain (DD) in order for FACT functionali…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
According to the Centers for Disease Control, hospital acquired infections (HAIs) kill over 100,000 people every year in the United States. Studies have shown that lab coats worn by medical…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
This research project aimed to identify the colored substance produced by the reaction of sulfuric acid with a specific type of gold ore that I discovered in Boulder, Colorado. The collected…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that can regulate circadian gene expression. This study investigates the relationship of miRNA and microbiome levels to diurnal variations in hum…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
With over 19,000 genes in the human genome, an effective method to link genes to the progression of cancer is needed. The identification of even one novel significant gene in the progression…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Second Award
In this project, Ricci flow and normalized Ricci flow were studied in a discrete 3-dimensional setting, where the manifold of interest is the boundary of a 4-simplex. This manifold is the di…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Antioxidants are known to play an important role in the protection of cells. Laboratory experiments using C-Fern spore cells were conducted to investigate the effect of antioxidants on spore…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Studying the 3D topology of the genome, in which DNA interacts to form loops, has become a promising field for building a better understanding of tumor biology. Although identifying 3D genom…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to investigate the significance of the relationship between the use of modern information technologies and the exacerbation of procrastination among teenagers…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
The purpose of the project I conducted was to test the short-term effect of changing water pH on pea plant growth. Changing the pH of water was supposed to simulate how polluted water effect…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The objective of this research was to determine if Eastern Oysters and Hard Shell Clams filtration ability to naturally filter and improve the overall water quality would be affected if the…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Previous literature has indicated that the goals that parents have for their children often become the goals the children have for themselves, and these goals influence certain character tra…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Urea electrooxidation has the potential for both waste remediation of toxic nitrogen compounds and efficient generation of hydrogen for renewable energy production. This work explored the ap…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
I estimate the effect of marginal changes in the minimum wage on the science scores of 15-year-old Canadian students in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 test. B…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
The harsh ultraviolet (UV) radiation at the Martian surface prevents viability of life as we know it by causing potentially lethal single and double-stranded DNA breaks. However, there are a…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
According to Adams and Galinsky’s (2012) enclothed cognition effect, clothing can have a strong influence on an individual's performance. Particular articles of clothing, such as a doctor’s…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
The use of a hand-held t-post driver to position posts for the fence is a practice which is frequently utilized, particularly in smaller scale farm and ranch operations. These hand-held devi…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Using ultraviolet radiation (UV), this project demonstrates genetic mutations in the DNA of the Drosophila Melanogaster. According to my hypothesis, if Drosophila Melanogaster are exposed to…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
With the increase of production and research of dye synthesized solar cells (DSSC), solar technology as a whole has advanced and could possibly cause solar technology to expand to all househ…