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 10411–10440
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Current mosquito control methods, including chemical approaches and genetically-engineered solutions are impractical in some cases as a form of vector control. In many emergent global region…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Background: Ventricular fibrillation (VF), is a potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmia, and the number one cause of death in the United States. This condition is traditionally characterized b…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Water is an indispensable resource essential for the survival of all species; however, 780 million people in the world lack access to clean water. Due to rising population, industrial develo…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Stroke is the 5th leading cause of death in Kentucky and the United States as well as the leading cause of long-term disability in several countries. Despite its vast implications, there is…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), a cancer of B1 cells, is the most widespread leukemia in the world. Current chemotherapies fail to effectively target the malignant B1 cell subset in CLL,…
ISEF · 2015
Impulse noises can seriously corrupt images. Median based filters are used to remove impulse noises. However, these filters introduce distortions while removing impulse noises. Traditionally…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
A new approach to UAV control, combining computer vision and control techniques, is introduced. Objects are detected using a UAV camera. The distance between the object center of mass, in th…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this research was to classify Near Earth Asteroids. The type of asteroid determines how dangerous they are to Earth and the best way to move them if they will hit Earth. The a…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The loss of cell to cell adhesion is one of the significant features of cancer. Proteins found in cell junctions, or groups of proteins which helps cells bind to each other, are downregulate…
ISEF · 2015
Animal Sciences
Problem: To determine if Turmeric or Motherwort is more successful in lowering the heart rate of a Daphnia. Hypothesis: If we are to expose the Daphnia to the Motherwort it will be a bit mor…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
The purpose of this experiment is to determine if a colostrum-based supplement will decrease the amount of time it will take a piglet to get up and sucking on a sow’s teat immediately after…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The purpose of this project is to learn where most medal winning Olympians are training. Using a computer with internet access, search for official Olympic data medal counts by athlete for t…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Immunotherapy, the interaction between cancer and immune cells, is one of the most promising treatments for cancer. A prominent research area is the B7-H1/PD-1 pathway. PD-1 (programmed cell…
ISEF · 2015
Oil spills in the environment pose a significant risk to both the environment and the ecosystem. This science fair project has explored the possibilities of finding and characterizing oil-de…
ISEF · 2015
In this paper, we develop a method for a problem not heavily touched upon by existing mathematical literature: evaluating the constructibility of n-division points by area that can be applie…
ISEF · 2015
Cerny's conjecture is a 50-year old question which concerns the combinatorial field of synchronizing automata. In particular, it postulates that the maximal length of the minimal reset word…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-threatening genetic disease that causes breathing and digestion problems in those who inherit it. The most common type of CF is caused by the deletion of a phe…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Our experiment seeks to prove the existence of elastic collision reactions occurring between ions emitted from a plasma beam and the target chamber wall. In order to prove this phenomenon, w…
ISEF · 2015
Organic photovoltaics are at the forefront of renewable energy because of cheap cost, nontoxicity, scalability, and rising efficiencies. However, PCBM (phenyl- C61-butyric-acid methyl ester)…
ISEF · 2015
Supercapacitors store ten to a hundred times more energy than a simple capacitor; however, supercapacitors possess only one tenth of the energy of a standard battery. Therefore, through the…
ISEF · 2015
The development of volumetric modulated arc therapy – or VMAT – plans for radiotherapy treatments require the optimization of parameters such as gantry angles and multi-leaf collimator (MLC)…
ISEF · 2015
BETA-glucosidase, an enzyme found mainly in fungal species, is essential in the breakdown of plant material and participates in a lysis reaction that cleaves cellobiose into glucose, which i…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Due to its ability to serve as a linkage within larger molecules, 1,2,3-triazole derivatives are widely used in pharmaceuticals as means to facilitate stability, utility, and permeability. T…
ISEF · 2015
Improving ground-level and aerial intruder detection is a growing concern in the advent of threats such as drones for which current detection methods are inadequate. This research adopted a…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Stem cells offer the unique potential to differentiate into many different cell types in the body during early life and growth including heart cells. This experiment tested the culture condi…
ISEF · 2015
Artificial disc replacement (ADR) is a relatively new spinal surgical procedure in the United States that has had only a small amount of time—less than a decade—to be conclusively criticized…
ISEF · 2015
Agricultural technology has advanced, so has its waste. Numerous studies show that fertilizers used on large scale farms often drain into local reservoirs of water, creating unique condition…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Quantifying successful fertilization of free spawning organisms in the wild requires an understanding of how sperm and eggs interact under various concentration and temporal constraints. In…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
“Oysters have held the power of life and death,” according to the Oyster Recovery Partnership of Annapolis, Maryland. During the Great Depression millions of Americans relied on the eastern…
ISEF · 2015
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The study investigated the thermogenic properties of green coffee bean extract on a nonparametric group, as well as placebo expectancy in regards to weight loss. Subjects were measure in fou…