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 9331–9360
ISEF · 2016
Escherichia coli (E. coli) is one of the main contaminants in water, resulting in deaths all around the world. Easily made water filters made from common materials are needed to filter out E…
ISEF · 2016
Marine biologists studying the endangered Eubalaena glacialis experience difficulty in recording the condition of the remaining right whales due to inadequate tracking and differentiation me…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
To challenge a history of reliance on qualitative information for public decision-making purposes, this study develops a novel policy modeling approach by projecting the relative health, env…
ISEF · 2016
The Red Lionfish (Pterosis Volitons) has overwhelmed South Florida's coastal waters and needs to be eradicated before consuming unsustainable amounts of the native fish, which are utilized f…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science First Award
The risk of cardiovascular disease, the world's leading cause of death, is greatly increased by metabolic syndrome, a combination of hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and type-2-diabetes. A rapi…
ISEF · 2016
During the previous year’s experimentation, it was found that both honey and propylene glycol (two safe ingredients) showed significant signs of being able to replace methanol and ethylene g…
ISEF · 2016
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the number one greenhouse gas emitted from human activities through the combustion of fossil fuels from transportation vehicles and industry factories. Recent increas…
ISEF · 2016
Rapid increase in bacterial resistance to life saving antibiotics is a major threat to human health because antibiotics are becoming ineffective in treating bacterial diseases. Innovative cu…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
The economics of wind energy can become a lot more favorable with high power wind turbines which could be feasible with higher-field magnets. (Gd,Y)BaCuO superconductor tapes with embedded B…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of my project was to determine which varied combination and concentration of enzyme ingredients produced the highest fermentation yield in barley. In my project, I used barley as…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Both biochar and layered double hydroxides (LDH) have received substantial attention for their abilities to adsorb chemical contaminants, yet little research has been reported on LDH/biochar…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Nosocomial infections are a potentially lethal and prevalent hazard in the hospital setting. There are over 99,000 associated deaths in American hospitals annually with 1 in 25 hospitalized…
ISEF · 2016
This study aimed to develop a new method for the searching and identification of galaxy clusters, and then to test the method to find new clusters. Algorithms are often used to search throug…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
As antibiotic resistance becomes an ever-greater issue, understanding of bacterial evolution is crucial. Growth advantage in stationary phase (GASP) enables rapid evolution in stress conditi…
ISEF · 2016
Every year over 3000 automobile accidents occur due to the sun impairing a driver’s vision for an extended period of time. While there have been attempts to solve this serious problem, such…
ISEF · 2016
Personalized cancer treatments promise drastic improvements in clinical benefit over traditional therapies. To develop individualized treatments, accurate models to predict drug response fro…
ISEF · 2016
The objective of this investigation was to to design and test an economical, audio-based gunshot detection method which can be used in two different use cases to increase situational awarene…
ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
A better understanding of cetacean populations in the Long Island coastal waters is greatly needed as environmental management issues emerge for licensing of offshore wind turbines. Data wer…
ISEF · 2016
Satellites have many uses, such as communications, monitoring, and navigation. Satellites orbit the earth according to Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation. According to this law, the perio…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Increasing atmospheric CO2 levels and depleting fertility in agricultural soils is a world-wide dilemma. A variety of processes and interactions occur between plants and soil microbial commu…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
To solve the problem statement - of the 6.1 million mobility device users in the United States, those who push or pull on the walker when sitting or standing cause it to become unstable - th…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Several drugs, including aminoglycosides and platinum-based chemotherapy agents, are well known for their ototoxic properties. However, the ototoxic potential of most therapeutic compounds i…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this project was to construct a robotic prosthetic hand that functions as good or better than robotic prosthetic hands presently being developed or currently on the market. Us…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Besides anthropogenic influences, the effects of temperature and El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Cycles on Chelonoidea are a secondary effect towards the decline of the population of the…
ISEF · 2016
Hospital acquired infections are infections that patients catch from the hospital environment or staff. According to the Centers for Disease Control, hospital acquired infections infect 1.7…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experimentation is to determine whether photo luminescent concrete coatings (containing strontium aluminate) will be effective as a building material by testing the resis…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Humans are able to quickly and accurately determine intent from early motions of other agents in the social environment. Through real-time analysis of biomechanical patterns, the mind uses p…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of the current study was to determine whether scaling typography to the Golden Ratio improves cognitive fluency, and therefore reading comprehension abilities, in nystagmus patie…
ISEF · 2016
Numerous methods, such as chemical reduction, biosynthesis and laser ablation, all account for the generation of nanoparticles. However, the environmental-friendliness and swiftness in plasm…
ISEF · 2016
My experiment was designed to determine if increasing the diameter of the exhaust ports in a Tesla Turbine correlates with the torque of that turbine, in order to optimize Tesla Turbines. I…