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 9511–9540
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The main purpose of this project is to further improve the models available for calculating the energy output of tidal barrages. This project will build on the previous year's project, which…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Cancer cells metabolize some basic nutrients, such as glucose, differently than normal cells do. Recently, investigation on cancer metabolism has increased due to the discovery of new metabo…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of my project was to determine if I could create a nutritionally balanced meal in Midland, Texas using the allotments provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. I…
ISEF · 2016
An intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) is a protein that lacks a stable tertiary structure. A key aspect of such a protein is that it goes against the traditional dogma that protein struc…
ISEF · 2016
After observing the devastating effect of natural disasters, such as super storms, flooding, and rising sea levels; an engineered pile driving design was created as a noise control acoustic…
ISEF · 2016
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that kills 4,000 people a day worldwide. The bacteria that causes Tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, can easily mutate and develop drug resistanc…
ISEF · 2016
When studying the methods and techniques of cryptography the topic of PKC or public key cryptography is often brought to mind. PKC allows for keys used in encryption and decryption to be pos…
ISEF · 2016
The goal of this project was to engineer a Home Automation system that was completely Open Source and centralized. Design constraints were the cost of the project, and also the method of con…
ISEF · 2016
Metabolic reactions within organisms rely on enzyme pathways, which catalyze fundamental biochemical reactions within cells. Recent publications conclude that interenzyme distance plays a si…
ISEF · 2016
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) refers to the recognition of printed characters by a computer. While there are many different algorithms for OCR, they fall into two main categories: Matr…
ISEF · 2016
The recent increase in counterfeited documents, banknotes, and medications impacts society, calls for new security technologies that are difficult to reproduce. Nature mimicking materials wi…
ISEF · 2016
When a solar cell is illuminated by light, free electrons are generated in the semiconductor. They need to diffuse to an electrode to be collected to form a current. A quantity called electr…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The United Nations estimates that 2.5 billion people worldwide are living without access to clean water with over 2 million dying each year from waterborne disease. Continual exposure to unc…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
A developing cancer treatment is photothermal ablation therapy (PTA), which uses the conversion of light to heat to kill cancer cells. Gold nanoparticles support surface plasmons, or waves o…
ISEF · 2016
The primary objective of this investigation is to improve the efficiency of the UltraScan-III software, which uses supercomputer environments to study soluble molecules in analytical ultrace…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this project was to was to find the optimal mixture of two enzymes, Cellulase RS and Macerozyme R-10, in order to maximize protoplast yield, viability, and size. Plant protopl…
ISEF · 2016
With the global energy crisis and pollution issues, like the BP Oil Spill and Flint Water Crisis, there is a major need for clean, accessible energy and sustainable remediation methods. Micr…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Space debris emerges as an imminent threat to space vehicles in low earth orbit. Tracking space debris beforehand to alert spacecraft of a threat to maneuver spacecraft away from a collision…
ISEF · 2016
Sustainable energy resources have gained enormous research attention in recent years and there exists a need for achieving independence from fossil fuels. Among several sources, solar energy…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
There is no curative therapy for liver cancer, the second leading cancer mortality worldwide, therefore cancer chemoprevention is the most impactful strategy to improve the dismal prognosis.…
ISEF · 2016
Amphipathic, self-assembly peptides consist of alternating hydrophobic and hydrophilic components. When introduced to water, the peptide self-assembles by burying hydrophobic residues while…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
In the U.S., millions suffer from life-impairing involuntary shaking of muscles called tremors. Tremors are caused by a variety of diseases, injuries and conditions, including traumatic brai…
ISEF · 2016
Password security has become an increasingly high priority nowadays as more and more information is becoming stored online. This project seeks to develop a password algorithm that can quickl…
ISEF · 2016
Continued fractions (CFs) provide well established advantages over other numeric representation systems, including greater accuracy, elimination of round-off and truncation errors, and a var…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
The purpose of this project was to see how a set of participant´s scores were affected by their peers´ answers. The purpose of this experiment was to test conformity in the youth. This drast…
ISEF · 2016
With the development of continually shrinking technology, the subject of nanomaterials has become an increasingly relevant topic. Peptide nanotubes have a unique ability to self-assemble pro…
ISEF · 2016
Advances in the manufacturing of semiconductor structures have allowed the observation of electron spins which are potentially useful for the construction of quantum computers. This project…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Robots and computers are now essential tools in today’s society that automate tasks in every field. Programmers utilize the concepts of machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)…
ISEF · 2016
Every year, several million skin lesions are diagnosed as cancerous in the US. In many cases, this disease is correlated to an excessive exposure to harmful ultraviolet radiation. Applicatio…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The ability of a cancer cell to alter its metabolic capacity was described by Warburg in the 1930s as an increase in energy production via glycolysis. Today, it is understood that transcript…