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 8551–8580
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Fourth Award
285 million people worldwide live with a visual impairment that prevents them from basic access to written or virtual materials. Current braille code standards such as Unified English Braill…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Respiratory diseases present a challenge to public health in both industrialized and developing countries due to their frequency, economic impact, severity and projected trends. Additionally…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Allergies are an important health issue. We want to study the allergy signal cascade by characterizing IgE receptors in mast cells. Mast cells are immune cells. Our project focuses on an IgE…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
60,000 domestic cases of Parkinson’s disease (PD) are diagnosed annually, while 7 million individuals have Essential Tremor (ET). My project provides simulation, diagnosis, and therapy to re…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Solar Water Disinfection(SODIS) is an inexpensive and effective method for disinfecting water using cost-effective materials like PET bottles and sunlight. Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) i…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Due to population growth, urban areas in Oregon have been expanding, leading to increases in impervious surfaces and net losses in wetlands, riparian vegetation, and forestation in the North…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences Third Award
Potato late blight caused the Irish Potato Famine and still causes billions of dollars of annual crop damage. Tracking and predicting its spread remains problematic. Growers overspray potato…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The kth nearest neighbor algorithm (kNN) is a non-parametric method used for classification, in which a query point is compared to a data set of points with predetermined classes. The neares…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Pancreatic cancer (PC) remains resistant to most chemotherapy and radiation techniques. Consequently, its five-year survival rate is less than 6%. Most current studies elucidate how cell pat…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Cyperus esculentus and C. rotundus, or yellow and purple nutsedge, are widespread throughout many areas of the United States and have been classified as two of the world’s most invasive weed…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Herbicides are chemicals for managing weeds, similar to antibiotics used in human health. The repeated use of herbicides has resulted in the evolution of herbicide resistant weed populations…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science First Award
Nanoporous graphene membranes have the potential to solve the problem of a dwindling supply of fresh water that affects nearly half the world’s population by enabling low cost, efficient des…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The objectives of this project were to determine the general response of vegetation to drought conditions; to test whether moisture deficiency was the limiting factor for vegetation growth i…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
The EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Act, governs the legal threshold of contaminants allowable in public water systems. The Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for arsenic, the #1 ranked toxin, was re…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Every day, thousands of people in the underdeveloped world die from lack of a clean drinking source or a water related disease. This led me to my science fair project: can water be easily pu…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering First Award
Intracortical microelectrodes are essential tools in the rapidly growing brain-computer interface (BCI) and brain-machine interface (BMI) fields. The development of flexible intracortical mi…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The purpose of this experiment was to identify molecular mechanisms involved with the regulation of the MAPT gene and the subsequent formation of neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer’s disea…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Antibiotics have been extensively used to treat patients with infectious diseases. As these drugs have been used widely for long time, the organisms the antibiotics are designed to kill have…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Second Award
Multilayered nanoparticles are promising carriers to deliver therapeutic biomolecules across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic brain injuries. Capabl…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
A cloud of space debris is formed when numerous defunct space objects orbit collectively around the Earth. Space debris clouds can have a much greater impact on space vehicles in low earth o…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Muon scattering tomography is a passive imaging technique able to interpolate the elemental structure of high-Z materials. Given that development of the technique is in a stage of relative n…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
In this work, experiments were conducted that were designed to induce mutations in soil bacteria in an effort to make mutants that could grow in conditions similar to those on Mars. Seven di…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Strokes are a leading cause of death throughout the world, but little has been done to assess stroke susceptibility or provide retainable education for the subject matter. Increasing medical…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Commercial fertilizer usage has caused drastic environmental impacts. Its use has lead to the overgrowth of bacteria, causing death to aquatic ecosystems, carcinogenic effects in humans, and…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Parkinson’s disease is one of the most commonly seen neurodegenerative diseases. It has no cure and becomes worse over time. Parkinson’s symptoms often go unnoticed in early stages, leading…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Up to date, one of the key features of nanotechnology is its wide range of applicability across multiple biological scenarios ranging from gene therapy to immune system modulation due to the…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Second Award
To detect biomarkers, diagnostic devices must obtain small enough feature sizes to manipulate biomolecules that are just a few nanometers in size. Electrodes separated by a nanometric gap ha…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
Supercapacitors (SCs) are promising energy storage devices due to their fast charge-discharge speed, long-term cycling stability, high power/energy density and high safety. In this study, pe…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Nanosilver particles can cause potential threats to animals, the enviroment, and even humans if taken or exposed to by a large quanity. So, do nanosilver particles commonly found in househol…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
We spend billions of dollars to clean up our environment from oil disasters all over the planet. The current methods never fully remove all of the oil that is spilled. The winds and ocean cu…