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 9541–9570
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
The solar to electrical conversion efficiency of photovoltaic panels suffers when they operate at elevated temperatures. It was hypothesized that a passive phase change material (PCM) based…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Water and energy are linked. Water is needed for energy production and energy is needed for clean water production. Because many have limited access to both water and electricity, sustainabl…
ISEF · 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this project was to simulate different variations of daylight by varying the distance of an artificial light to a solar panel in order to produce hydrogen. Procedures…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
ADHD affects more than one in ten adolescents in the United States. Additionally, neuropeptide Y (NPY), a neurotransmitter that regulates stress and emotional behavior, is strongly associate…
ISEF · 2016
Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sanguinis are two bacteria that compete for limited tooth surface. This study was done to determine which one was stronger. Through experimentation, it…
ISEF · 2016
Heavy metals are an environmental hazard and a human health concern. They are difficult and costly to remove from the environment. Phytoremediation is an inexpensive and effective alternativ…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Plant roots are susceptible to damage from insects, microbes, and poor soil conditions, but their high capacity for regeneration gives them the ability to recover. Many of the molecular step…
ISEF · 2016
The research conducted focused on developing a method to perform a semi-quantitative platelet count on abnormal blood smears (Hemaglobinopathy, or sickle cell anemia, and Elevated Mean Plate…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Drug resistant malarial parasites and inability to monitor patient response to treatment kill nearly a million people every year. Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a highly sensit…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Coxa Saltans, a condition of the hip, comes in three forms that manipulate a snap, but the contributing factors vary. Internal Coxa Saltans, on which this research focuses, occurs when the i…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
Polymers that form polymer-DNA complexes (polyplexes) have been established to be safer and more effective -without causing death to harmless cells- than Chemotherapy and viral-mediated tran…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment was to investigate which homemade biogas generator was the best one for daily use in a household. Five different designs of biogas generators were built based…
ISEF · 2016
Ultrasound targeted microbubble destruction (UTMD) has become a widely researched method of drug delivery. This method utilizes the behavior of gas filled microbubbles in response to targete…
ISEF · 2016
The loss of a hand is severely traumatic both emotionally and physically. Prosthetic's are devices that can help restore some of the functionality to the user. However, current prosthetic's…
ISEF · 2016
High altitude balloon research conducted by universities and government research teams like NOAA and the EPA are expensive projects. The total equipment value for an average flight exceeds $…
ISEF · 2016
Predictable or Chaotic: Orbits vs. Weather investigates the predictability of planetary and weather systems. In order to do this, a computer code was written to model each system. A simple a…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
A non-invasive risk-analysis tool was developed for assessing HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer using oral-rinse samples. The idea for this tool came from work that showed evidence of abno…
ISEF · 2016
Despite the widely known health risks of obesity, there is no accurate and reliable way to predict if an individual will become obese in the future. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are cap…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of my project is to predict the progression of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) by creating a computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system using image features from an MRI. I hypothesized that I…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Synergistic drug combinations for cancer have the potential to save millions of lives each year through lowering toxicity, limiting side effects, and drastically increasing the efficacy of t…
ISEF · 2016
Every year, severe burns kill approximately 265,000 people due to opportunistic infection from normal flora, such as Staphylococcus epidermidis. This research studies the efficacy of using f…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Approximately 80-90% of Americans develop allergic reactions upon contact with poison oak or poison ivy. The allergen in both of these plants is a molecule known as urushiol, which binds to…
ISEF · 2016
Every year, an average of 37 children dies from hyperthermia (heat), when left unattended in the car. The objective of this experiment was to find an effective way to detect when the baby is…
ISEF · 2016
Pricey to Priceless Gel Electrophoresis’s purpose was to design a more cheap and effective way for forensic analysists to measure the accuracy of evidence in DNA testing of criminals, along…
ISEF · 2016
Wearable electronics are finding new applications in everyday life. Future adoption of wearable electronics into applications such as medical diagnostics, identity protection, and asset situ…
ISEF · 2016
Heart disease is one of leading causes of death in the United States. Electrocardiograms (ECG or EKG) are often used to diagnose cardiac conditions. The actual output from an ECG is not easy…
ISEF · 2016
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a rather widespread, devastating psychiatric illness without defined causes. Studies have implied an immunological dysfunction hypothesis for SCZ by identifying abnorm…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
To decrease the distance of model rocket drift after deploying a recovery system, the project goal was to develop a low-cost, guided system to bring a model rocket back to the launch area. A…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Nearly 40% of people age 65 and older have at least one disability; of those, two-thirds have difficulty walking. Wheelchairs can help people who have a hard time walking, but they are diffi…
ISEF · 2016
When we were younger, our father taught us how to program. We became involved with programming using Arduino. It became a hobby of ours. We were able to create a color sensor, temperature se…