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 9631–9660
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Nearly 460,000 people were sent to the hospital in 2012 for injuries related to exercise equipment, according to USA Today. Treadmills are the number one cause of exercise equipment injuries…
ISEF · 2016
Biochar and hydrophilic polymers: although very different from each other, these soil amendments together have the potential to drastically improve the standards of agriculture, as well as i…
ISEF · 2016
We tested if natural disasters had an effect on the micronutrient count in the soil. If we test the following scenarios: forest fire, grassland fire, and blizzards to see how they affect the…
ISEF · 2016
The growth in land development has resulted to a loss of arable land for crop production. The remaining unused marginal lands are low in productivity and can’t be utilized to produce food to…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
After a heavy rainfall, beaches are closed and swimming is prohibited. Sewers fill to capacity and are unable to handle the combined sanitary and storm water; thereby causing water to overfl…
ISEF · 2016
If we could capture all the energy the sun beams to the Earth in a single hour, we would have enough to fuel the world's needs for a year. Currently, solar power produces less than one-tenth…
ISEF · 2016
The objective of this study was to demonstrate the validity of triboluminescence (TL) as a structural health-monitoring characteristic within composite materials. Fiber reinforced composite…
ISEF · 2016
Querying RDF databases is now made accessible to everyone through a natural text to SPARQL query converter Java program. For this specific project, query generation was done in the context o…
ISEF · 2016
The least-cost graph traversal algorithm A* has diverse applications from video game pathfinding to accessibility programs for the visually impaired. While there is substantial research conc…
ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
This project focused on discovering how mealworms will be affected by Insect Growth Regulators, specifically focusing on the Juvenile Hormone Mimics pyriproxyfen, methoprene, and hydroprene.…
ISEF · 2016
In this study, a spectroscopic data analysis of Titanium Oxide Presence in stars will be presented and the elemental composition will be discussed. The experimental procedure consisted of an…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
Spotted wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzukii, is a new fruit fly species that has become a serious threat to fruit crops. Using a prominent and serrated ovipositor, the female SWD pierc…
ISEF · 2016
A small group of hobbyists and I built an ultra-high-powered quadcopter with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 8:1 with the hope of setting a world record. Because the quad was constructed from of…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
Coloniality is a vertebrate social system, observed in 13% of avian species, occurring when individuals breed in densely clustered territories. It is known that coloniality provides species…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
1,205,127 acres of land have been lost in Louisiana since 1932 which has a detrimental impact not only on the economy but the ecosystems. The objective of this research was to determine the…
ISEF · 2016
Heart disease is the number one killer in the world. Every year, 720,000 heart attacks happen in the U.S. Despite medical technology advancing rapidly, medical science lags behind. This is b…
ISEF · 2016
Montmorillonite is a common silicate mineral that is a major constituent of the Earth's soils. This clay also belongs to a group of clays known as swelling clays, which increase in size when…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
The increasing drug resistance among Gram-positive bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has become a growing threat and thus the necessity for novel antibacter…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The purpose of this retrospective and observational study was to see the effect of the missing X chromosome in women (a condition known as Turner Syndrome) on the liver. It was expected that…
ISEF · 2016
In the body, sucrose is broken down into glucose and fructose, and this process in catalyzed by an enzyme referred to as sucrase in humans and invertase in plants and yeasts. As a result of…
ISEF · 2016
Current methods of data transfer are limited by speed-of-light transmission delays, a problem for interplanetary communications and other applications. The possibility of communication via l…
ISEF · 2016
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPRs) are genetic elements that function with CRISPR-Associated (Cas) proteins to cleave genes. The CRISPR-dCas9 system is modif…
ISEF · 2016
Sickle Cell Disease is a genetic condition present at birth. We screened willing participants within our area to indicate whether or not they had the trait or the disease. The screening cons…
ISEF · 2016
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
What I hope to achieve in this experiment is to determine the percentage of students who have anxiety disorders, if females have it more commonly than males, or vise versa, and what age grou…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Coffee and tea are the two most common beverages in the world. Generally coffee is made from beans, while tea is from leaves. Every year, the tremendous amount of used coffee grounds and tea…
ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
Whiteflies (Bemisia Tabaci) are phloem-feeding pests that carry and spread diseases, with the capability of causing widespread damage to global food production. Thus, whiteflies are one of t…
ISEF · 2016
Previous research has shown evidence that Elderberry (Sambuscus) has synergistic effects against bacterias when used with Chloramphenicol, Ampicillin, and Trimethoprim. This study is an atte…
ISEF · 2016
Current methods for production of biodiesel are not cost competitive when prices of crude oil are low. This study proposes a biodiesel production method that produces surfactant as a coprodu…
ISEF · 2016
Running is an aerobic sport that requires training to help you improve. In my experiment I wanted to know: How does heart rate and respiration rate reflect upon a person’s fitness level? Hea…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
A growing body of evidence suggests that failures in aminoacyl-tRNA editing lead to perturbation of protein homeostasis, damaging the cellular environment. Studies in human cells lines have…