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 10471–10500
ISEF · 2015
Oral Streptococcus of the viridans group are common bacteria with disease-causing potential and a high prevalence of antibiotic resistance (Whitney, 2000). The prevalence of ampicillin resis…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
One out of every twenty hospital patients will contract a nosocomial infection from invasive devices. We investigated the hypothesis that graphene, graphene oxide and silver nanoparticles po…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, which is characterized by the formation of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. The pathological hal…
ISEF · 2015
In this project, I wished to determine the best way to increase the efficiency of a wing. I hypothesized that leading-edge wing fences or full-body wing fences would correct wingtip vortices…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
This project seeks to solve two prevalent issues in our society, inefficient waste management and harmful nonrenewable energy sources, by means of micro-scale anaerobic digestion. The overal…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease known for significant brain atrophy and pathological lesions that are thought to damage synaptic connections between cells. In particu…
ISEF · 2015
The objective of our design project is for the AI to learn from past successes and failures and to adapt them to future games, utilising past pattern recognition. We began this project by re…
ISEF · 2015
According to a U.S. Census Bureau report, nearly 40% of people age 65 and older have at least one disability. Of those 15.7 million people, two thirds have difficulty walking. People who can…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Stroke is the leading cause of disability and the fourth leading cause of death in the US. Acute Ischemic Stroke accounts for 80% of cases in adult stroke victims. In this context, the prese…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Iron homeostasis is a vital biological process closely regulated by several signaling systems. One of the most important systems is HJV/BMP6; it regulates the release or sequestration of iro…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
Every year, over 2.5 billion people are at risk of dengue virus infection, killing over 25,000 of the people infected. Currently, details of the budding mechanism by which dengue virus infec…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Last year, the experimenter tested if there were differences in lip fissure patterns between ethnic groups. This year the purpose of the experiment was to determine if there is similarities…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
In response to ultrasonic pest control devices spouting unsupported claims, between 1985 and 1997 the Federal Trade Commission pursued legal action against six companies falsely marketing su…
ISEF · 2015
Polluted water is found all over the world. The developed world has found ways to filter our water for personal use. However, in less developed third world countries, the problem of heavily…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Bronchiolitis is one of the leading causes of hospitalization during infancy in the US with almost 150,000 admissions per year; it is mainly caused by rhinovirus (RV) and human metapneumovir…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
Though accurate, current cancer diagnostic methods are time-consuming, expensive, disease-specific, and qualitative. To improve clinical cancer treatment, a better quantitative system for ea…
ISEF · 2015
Quantum locking is the application of flux pinning to create a stable form of levitation which pins a superconductor within a strong magnetic field allowing movement only along regions of co…
ISEF · 2015
With the amount of agricultural land decreasing, it is essential to maximize the output of crops. Insects impact this output, reducing the amount of edible vegetation by about 20%. This proj…
ISEF · 2015
This project tested the entropy and randomness of several sets of data from different sources to determine the best way to generate random numbers. Random numbers are used in applications wh…
ISEF · 2015
3D printers have moved from the research lab into the home and the market for consumer level 3D printers is growing at a rapid rate. The most common type of 3D printing involves the process…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of my project was to investigate if a longer incubation period is necessary to show antibiotic resistance. During the twenty- four hour incubation time, there was a very high gro…
ISEF · 2015
Recycled hair fibers have been used previously for oil spill clean up as an alternative to non-organic sorbents, but the process of assembling these fibers is inefficient. Here, an alternati…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The colligative properties of solutions, including the boiling point elevation, are said to be only dependent on concentration of particles dissolved, not the identity of the particles; howe…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the capabilities of certain lactic acid bacteria species to bind aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) in milk. AFM1 is a carcinogenic mycotoxin that is often f…
ISEF · 2015
Humans have been using switches for controlling lights, and other power sources, for a long time. When people leave their rooms, they often forget to turn off these switches resulting in the…
ISEF · 2015
Today 5% of the United States’s total energy consumption comes from air conditioner use at a cost of $11 billion and a release of 100 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annua…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment was to find out the nitrogen release patterns of organic fertilizer (tankage), in two different soils (Poamoho and Waimanalo) by using four different nitrogen…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
In this current study, electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to formic acid was carried out by cyclical voltammetry utilizing novel Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) electrode coated with doped (…
ISEF · 2015
Within the research the regeneration of Articular Cartilage using hADSC and Heparin Sulfate was conducted. Different degrees of Methacrylation were tested on hADSCs and in different hydrogel…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Proper and functional innervation of the heart by the autonomic nervous system is critical for healthy cardiac function. Inadequate innervation or an imbalance of the two branches of the aut…