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 8971–9000
ISEF · 2016
I created an artificial muscle using monofilament fishing line. The muscle is heat sensitive, and by applying heat to the muscle, it contracts lifting weight. To make the muscle, a nylon mon…
ISEF · 2016
Developing a defensive barrier against invasive species that destroy native citrus populations is major problem for agricultural developers throughout the state of Florida and United States.…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
To address global fresh water scarcity, a novel hydrogel based seawater desalination technique using a superabsorbent starch based polymer is proposed. Current approaches rely on thermal, me…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
Glioblastoma is the primary cause of cancer related fatalities in pediatric and adult populations. The current standards for treatment have been unsuccessful in preventing tumor relapse due…
ISEF · 2016
Nanomaterial synthesis has gained widespread attention in personalized nanomedicine to offer promising treatments for combined therapy and diagnostics. Capable of disease detection, drug del…
ISEF · 2016
Many regions in the world are facing the dangers of water shortages, and are not able to produce enough food. If an agriculture system were extremely cost and water efficient, then farmers i…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
An efficient and economically profitable process for the electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide to valuable chemicals such as methanol and formic acid was investigated to address the s…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
What if type-1 diabetes could be cheaply and non-invasively detected? Untreated type-1 diabetics produce large amounts of ketones, which are not otherwise typically produced in the body. Tes…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Surface plasmons are vibrations from free electrons residing on the surfaces of metals such as gold. Since the frequency (or the wavelength) of these vibrations is very sensitive to surface…
ISEF · 2016
Background: Today, part of our daily lives is handwashing. This is a common practice that every individual uses to clean their hands after they handle or touched certain objects that may be…
ISEF · 2016
This project in its current form is the result of a three part experimentation on the relationship between the algae strain Chlorella and the amount of biofuel it produces. The purpose was t…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As more and more hydrophobic compounds are turned away each year due to the fact that the cannot dissolve in the human body, the goal of this project was to a novel alginate-based drug deliv…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this study is to test for the presence of Ketamine and Flunixin transference to insects from injected pig tissue during different decomposition stages by using body farm techn…
ISEF · 2016
Earthquakes are devastating natural disasters which affect regions all around the world. One of the many problems is that first-response teams struggle to recover victims buried under piles…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Background: Sleep is believed to play a role in the clearance of potentially harmful substances that accumulate in the brain during wakefulness. One such harmful substance is beta-amyloid, a…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this project was to explore alternatives to commercially manufactured antibiotics. This experiment was meant to test if natural alternative medicines, honeys, and herbal essen…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Liver tissue for transplant is unviable for many patients as a result of hepatocellular damage during transport. Standard cold storage, the usual method of transport has been shown in multip…
ISEF · 2016
In its present form, this fourth-year investigation into Alzheimer's disease risk factors addresses the following question: what factors contribute the most in increasing an individual's lik…
ISEF · 2016
One of the most challenging problems in the field of medical science today is predicting the drugs that will work for specific cancer patients. The future of personalized cancer therapies re…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are unique proteins that lack rigidly defined three-dimensional structures. Due to their conformational flexibility, IDPs serve diverse protein funct…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Multifactorial diseases are a product of simultaneous alterations in several genes. However, there exists no computationally robust method to fully understand the relationship between co-alt…
ISEF · 2016
The presence of toxic phenolic compounds in drinking water presents a major health concern in areas near aerosol manufacturing plants. Maintaining quality drinking water in these areas requi…
ISEF · 2016
The Ebola virus has infected over 30,000 people, killing almost 13,000 in Africa since its discovery in 1976. Since then, outbreaks occur on average every 1.5 years. A mathematical model of…
ISEF · 2016
In response to the recent surge of viruses in rural areas, the international community has put an extra emphasis on preventing the spread of these diseases. The World Health Organization has…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this investigation was to develop a means of encoding information into DNA sequences that can then be decoded and to develop error correction methods to detect and correct pos…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This research was based on previous research conducted on obtaining biofuels from various food waste sources. It was determined that wasted grease was the best source for biofuel production.…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond detectors are being investigated as alternatives to scintillators for neutron detection in fusion environments. Data were obtained for four CVD detect…
ISEF · 2016
Oxidative stress is present during kidney disease. Nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a transcription factor which combats oxidative stress and compounds inducing Nrf2 red…
ISEF · 2016
Intracortical electrodes can be utilized by those with severe brain injuries. When they are implanted the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) is breached causing neurodegeneration and inflammatory res…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Antibiotic resistance constitutes one of the world's greatest public health issues. Through natural selection, bacteria have developed mechanisms that confer this resistance - creating a pre…