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 9781–9810
ISEF · 2016
Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy (ANE) is a severe neurologic complication manifested primarily in young Asian children in the form of encephalopathy, seizures, coma, and symmetric brain les…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science First Award
The HIV-1 strand of the human immunodeficiency virus is an evasive retrovirus due to its ability to invade a cell and use the outer membrane to multiply and invade other cells. The p24 capsi…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Autism Spectrum Disorder affects one in sixty-eight children in the United States and awareness and coordination of the two sides of the body, known as mid-line awareness is a common issue.…
ISEF · 2016
The problem that faces every mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, automobile manufacturer, airplane designer, and anyone working with engines in general is how to obtain more efficiency.…
ISEF · 2016
Vibrio is a large and diverse genus of marine bacteria, some of which are known to cause illness in humans. In particular, Vibrio vulnificus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus, common to brackish F…
ISEF · 2016
Cosmic rays (CRs) composed of mostly protons have energies typically in the range of 10e8-10e13 eV and can plausibly be produced by active galactic nuclei (AGN) such as super massive black h…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
3D printing is the emerging technology for making complex objects directly without assembling parts. Ink-jet printers at home allows one to print delicate 2D structures on paper and the visi…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
Abnormal blood vessel growth, termed neovascularization, causes diseases such as wet-age related macular degeneration (wet AMD), leading to blindness. Wet AMD is a chronic eye disease that c…
ISEF · 2016
Alzheimer`s disease is one of the leading causes of death and affects millions of people worldwide. Since this form of dementia has such a large impact on the human population, it is imperat…
ISEF · 2016
This study explored the relationship between a pond's distance from the nearest paved road and the health of the frog populations inside. It was hypothesized that ponds greater than 100 mete…
ISEF · 2016
The accumulation of heavy metal ions in rivers can have detrimental effects on the ecosystem. My project investigates the possibility of using an invasive aquatic plant called the water hyac…
ISEF · 2016
The following project will include a series of experiments to find biological consequences that exposure to electromagnetic fields may bring not just to Drosophila Melanogaster and their rep…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment is to create a device that measures the temperature of diabetic patients’ feet so that it can alert and record when the temperature difference of each foot is…
ISEF · 2016
Background: Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed male cancer in the western world. In over half of the patients, Ets Related Gene (ERG) has been found to express in prostate…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
Increased globalization has led to more diversity in the United States, yet, people are often reluctant to initiate interracial interactions. These interactions may engender identity threate…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Cisplatin cures cancers but increases mortality due to its nephrotoxicity. My in vitro studies led to the hypothesis that mice treated with acrolein or cisplatin will promote kidney fibrosis…
ISEF · 2016
In Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) and Beam Target (BT) fusion systems secondary electrons are a product of beam-target and beam-beam interactions. these secondary electrons can the…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Development of cancer-specific drugs is critical to improve quality of life and survival of cancer patients. This integrative research demonstrates a novel concept to improve specificity of…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Electronic-cigarettes, or Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), represent a major public health issue, but little is known about their toxicological effects when inhaled. This study e…
ISEF · 2016
We all know fire can be fought with water, chemicals, and even fire, but could we have ever imagined that sound could fight fire? In my experiment, I set out to create a sonic fire extinguis…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The Mpemba Effect is a rare phenomenon that results in the freezing of hot water faster as opposed to cold water temperatures. The foundation of this finding were the studies done by the Tan…
ISEF · 2016
The anti-tumor and anti-viral properties of curcumin, in addition to its pharmacological safety and negligible cost render curcumin an effective agent against cervical cancer, which continue…
ISEF · 2016
Does loss of taxa affect trophic function? To examine this question I estimated taxonomic diversity and trophic function for aquatic insects across streams exhibiting a gradient of habitat d…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This study involved the fabrication and characterization of copper substrates treated with six different self-assembling monolayers following electroless galvanic deposition of silver. The s…
ISEF · 2016
Martian dust has an electrostatic charge which causes it to easily attract to moving objects, has the ability to invade machinery, and is hazardous to humans. With space exploration heading…
ISEF · 2016
Renewable energy offers potentially endless supplies of power. It's becoming vital to harness any of these sources in the most efficient way possible. Wind power is just one source of renewa…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this study was to create a more efficient method of papaya production through the clonal propagation of hermaphroditic Hawaiian papaya. The current labor-intensive practice in…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this research was to determine whether controlled amounts of Escherichia coli, K-12 could be killed by a makeshift water filtration system and UV irradiation. Twenty four nutr…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Boron Neutron Capture Therapy is an emerging cancer radiation therapy employing the use of high energy alpha particles produced in the reaction between thermalized neutrons and Boron-10 to s…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Researchers have investigated the Cross Race Effect – own race bias- before; however, not to the specificity of eyewitness testimony as this experiment does. Based on our research, we believ…