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 10021–10050
ISEF · 2015
Building off the past few years of research in robotic search and rescue, this year, we write an algorithm that calculates the visible horizon and peaks of hills from any location and direct…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Biogenic Mn(II) oxidation holds great potential to reduce the toxicity of soluble mine waste in the environment at low cost. Abandoned mine waste sites, such as those in Arizona, pose a risk…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Corneas are among the most frequently transplanted tissues in the United States, with some 46,000 surgeries performed annually. Unfortunately, they can typically be stored for only 7-10 days…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Due to the fact that current conventional cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy, lack specificity, the development of new forms of therapy is essential to decreasing…
ISEF · 2015
According to World Health Organization, over 360 million people have disabling hearing loss, and it is expected to get worse with the younger generation due to exposure to loud music. The pu…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Bacterial infection of the human blood is a very common cause of illness and death. Rapid and accurate identification of the infectious agents is critical for proper antibiotic selection. Th…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment was to test and to examine how the design of a natural aquifer can be effective in filtering run off from roads in order to make it less harmful to the ecosyst…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Media multitasking is increasingly prevalent in our society, especially among the young. Processing multiple streams of information simultaneously, however, is cognitively challenging, there…
ISEF · 2015
This project was designed to recycle the by-product produced when filtering the carbon output of exhaust of fossil fueled cars to decrease carbon footprint. Filtration occurred when carbon d…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Background: Strain and Left ventricular mass (LVM) determination are essential for the evaluation of the progress and function of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Free of geometric assumpt…
ISEF · 2015
Ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury during heart attack may result in significant heart damage, and new therapies are needed. The goal of this study was to determine if the flavonoid quercetin…
ISEF · 2015
Motivated by a question proposed in combinatorial geometry, we attempt to categorize finite point sets that do not have a 5-hole (empty pentagon). We look at a finite set of points, P, and c…
ISEF · 2015
Cholera toxin causes a diarrheal response in patients by inducing chloride efflux from intestinal epithelial cells, but it does not kill the intoxicated epithelial cells. Cholera toxin also…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Cell immortality sounds good but is root cause of most cancers. This happens when certain functional tags attach to DNA periphery, suppressing apoptosis (self-dead), allowing uncontrollable…
ISEF · 2015
The problem of my project was: are there any trends in the data of playing Monopoly? And if so, what is the best strategy to use when playing Monopoly in terms of what properties should I pu…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Rhizomania, a severe disease caused by beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV), causes significant damage to sugar beet worldwide, not only physically harming the sugar beet root but also re…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Recent changes in the field of oncology have placed an emphasis on targeting cancer stem cells (CSCs) in order to effectively treat cancer. Despite the increased attention, an effective mech…
ISEF · 2015
In order to meet the future demands of computation and communication, new approaches are needed to increase data operating speeds to the terahertz (THz) frequency range. To accomplish this g…
ISEF · 2015
Photodetectors and other photovoltaic devices have garnered significant interest in recent years for their applications in high-speed data transmission and data processing. Graphene, a singl…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Recently, Continuous Flow (CF) Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD) have emerged as a long term alternative to heart transplant in heart failure patients. However, CF VAD support diminishe…
ISEF · 2015
One of the most famous mathematical problems concerns constructing figures with the aid of an unmarked straightedge and compass, specifically constructing regular polygons. Such construction…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solid oxide fuel cells require pure electronic conductors with composite designs and high operating temperatures. In this respect, mixed ionic electronic conductors are desirable due to thei…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Do chemical adjuvants inhibit murine lymphomas (like 2C3) and mammary carcinomas (like 4T1)? Cancer therapy currently involves surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Surgery does not ensure c…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Chocolate and caffeine are well-known to affect the quality of sleep. Chocolate, however,contains only minimal traces of caffeine but larger amounts of theobromine, a related alkaloid stimul…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
In America nearly 14 million people abuse alcohol and suffer from alcoholism. Moreover, nearly 6.6 million children under the age of 18 have at least one parent that is an alcoholic. The eff…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The disease Chytridiomycosis (caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) has been detrimentally affecting amphibian populations for the past two decades. To make matters worse, the…
ISEF · 2015
Detection of an object, such as a line or a circle, is one of the major components of computer vision applications. The Hough Transform utilizes a voting procedure to identify arbitrary obje…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Using three different types of cleaners (an oxygen, a chlorine, and a regular detergent) three by three squares were washed either one, two or three times. Eight common forensics tests were…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Diabetes is a serious worldwide epidemic that affects a growing portion of the population. While the most common method for testing blood glucose involves finger pricking, it is painful and…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Cellulosic bioethanol, an alternative energy source produced by saccharification and fermentation of plant polysaccharides such as cellulose and hemicellulose, is a promising renewable energ…