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 9061–9090
ISEF · 2016
With increasing irrigation and farming costs, new methods of remotely controlling and managing water use have to be created and applied. In 2012, a university began developing a collection o…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
The objective of this study is to test electroencephalogram (EEG) segments to determine if a logistic regression classification algorithm can predict epileptic seizures based on the variance…
ISEF · 2016
Differential gene expression analysis is commonly used to associate gene expression with a biological or clinical subtype of patients. However, patients rarely divide into homogeneous groups…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Sixteen percent of all deaths every year are caused by infectious diseases. Currently, many models over or under-predict the long term progression of diseases, and provide little information…
ISEF · 2016
A progressively neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer’s disease presents a serious emotional and physical cost to patients and their families today. It is thus imperative that a cure is devel…
ISEF · 2016
Prevotella intermedia is an anaerobic pathogenic bacterium. It is known to cause infections of the mouth such as periodontitis disease and gingivitis. In addition, P. intermedia produces hem…
ISEF · 2016
The ability to detect and diagnose cancer greatly influences patient survival rates. Current cancer detection methods take multiple days to process, are inefficient, and relatively expensive…
ISEF · 2016
With the agreement reached by the Paris Climate Talks, a dire need for renewable energy collection with greater efficiency and lower cost has arisen. The goal of this research was to develop…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose for this project was to discover whether golf courses or nearby preserves had greater arthropod diversities within their leaf litter. I hypothesized the leaf litter from the pres…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose is to create a particle detector in the form of a bubble chamber to detect dark matter particles. This is done through determining the optimal temperature and pressure settings f…
ISEF · 2016
Our Earth is in a multi-planet system, and this is thought to have been crucial for the formation of life. Yet it is poorly understood whether multi-planet systems like our Solar System are…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Huanglongbing (HLB) disease causes worldwide losses in citrus industry worth billions of dollars every year. The causative bacteria of HLB, Candidatus Liberbacter is transmitted by the Asian…
ISEF · 2016
The growth of new materials based on the self-assemblage of individual atoms is one of the most promising methods for achieving nanofabrication at the atomic scale. To achieve this goal requ…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
The microwave oven is a commonplace appliance used by millions worldwide. Even after half a century from its commercialization, this technology has remained static and no fundamental improve…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The goal of this research project was to assess the effectiveness of virtual psychotherapy treatments and to develop an intuitive self-help software application for treating obsessive-compul…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of three species of prairie plants in inactivating Escherichia coli (E. coli). The species of plants included: Asclepias incarnate-Swa…
ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
C. elegans is a viable homolog for multitudes of human genetic disorders; research using C. elegans previously has benefited those afflicted with some disorders. The purpose of this study wa…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
I used recycled food from the my school's cafeteria to design a food supplement for dogs housed in a kennel and adoption facility. My veterinarian agreed that my plan would have no negative…
ISEF · 2016
Proton exchange membrane fuel cells are a type of electrochemical energy conversion device that can potentially replace conventional energy sources in a wide range of applications because of…
ISEF · 2016
Bar Visibility Graphs were introduced by Duchet et al. and Schlag et al. to model Very Large Scale Integration (VSLI), the process by which billions of transistors are wired together on a si…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
As humans, we like to believe that we are fully in control of our minds. However, we are discovering that subconscious biases greatly affect our perceptions. Learning more about the roots of…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
In agriculture, soil microbial communities can have a significant impact on plant growth and strongly influence the characteristics and health of the soil itself. Turning the top layer of so…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
In this experiment, changes in percent transmission resulting from changes in temperature were studied in reflectin. Reflectin, a protein found in the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid, has the ability…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
According to NASA, 2015 is the warmest year since modern record keeping began. The majority of assessment models designed to mitigate global temperature rise above 2 degrees Celsius indicate…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the correct height of a dining room table that would prevent buttered toast from falling buttered-side down and soiling a perfectly good carpet…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Metal cations and especially Mg2+ play a very important role in many biological processes such as RNA folding and catalysis. In order for Mg2+ to interact with RNA, a water molecule must fir…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
A concern with violent video game play is that they may increase aggression. I used alternating bilateral sound stimulation (ABSS) to try and decrease ANS arousal, aggression, negative affec…
ISEF · 2016
The Collatz Conjecture is a worldwide math problem that has been unproven for nearly 80 years. The Conjecture starts by taking any positive integer n. If n is even, divide it by 2 to get n /…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
In 2007 Meaghen Ross, a seven year old girl with Down Syndrome, was asked to leave a movie theater because she clapped her hands and started moving around a good deal when her favorite actor…
ISEF · 2016
Recently, antibiotics, one of the greatest advancements in modern science, have been losing their effectiveness because of the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Diseases such as Methici…