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 10501–10530
ISEF · 2015
Switchgrass is a perennial, native prairie grass with strong potential as a biofuel stock crop. This project studied the relationship between switchgrass, fertilizer, and arbuscular mycorrhi…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment is to determine if bone char can successfully remediate water contaminated with arsenic, cadmium, copper, zinc, or a combination thereof. If bone char effectiv…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This project is designed to test the extent of people's short-term memory, and reveal how age and gender cause people's minds to function differently. The hypothesis was if the age of female…
ISEF · 2015
Storm water from parking lots, driveways, and gas stations is often contaminated with the aromatic compound benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) that are a fraction of gasoline…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this study was to investigate the anti-amyloid and anti-inflammatory properties of CNI-1493 as a treatment for intracellular amyloid beta toxicity and chronic neuro-inflammati…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
In 2008, people in the United States spent about seventeen billion dollars on health care for acute coughs. This project set out to create a program to diagnose Croup, Pertussis and Asthma f…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Glutathione (GSH) is a naturally found antioxidant in the body that reduces oxidative stress and assists in preserving tissue homeostasis. It has been shown that GSH levels are lower in diab…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
On average, pharmaceutical companies spend $2.6 billion and twelve years to develop a single drug. Most small molecule drugs are discovered by high-throughput robotic screening, an expensive…
ISEF · 2015
The number of citations held in the PubMed database currently numbers more than 22 million. The reverse PubMed search program is a search and retrieval method that returns ideas for further…
ISEF · 2015
Through my experience in 4-H and living on a farm, I became interested in the genetics and growth patterns of crops my family grew. I wanted to analyze the growth and fertilization of soybea…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Although most alternative energy advocates focus upon wind and solar, wave energy is also a viable option, since oceans cover over seventy percent of the Earth’s surface and even small swell…
ISEF · 2015
Exchange in the three body problem occurs when one body displaces a previously bound member of a binary system. Exact conditions for when such an exchange can occur are established through a…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
With the common occurrence of concussions in the sports world, there should be a way through technological means to stop or reduce the risk of receiving a concussion. The Robo F-Pads shoulde…
ISEF · 2015
Currently available robotic systems lack the ability to act and react without human intervention. As we expand to more diverse fields, we will require increasingly autonomous instruments tha…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leader in cancer related deaths. Actively researching genes that are not well understood such as miR-143 helps to…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
The objective of this study was to elucidate the genetic basis of super tasting ability and establish associations with childhood obesity. Obesity, which is associated with an increased risk…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
The model organism, Drosophila melanogaster, is commonly used in research due to their similarities to humans, ability to rapidly reproduce, and the simplicity of their genetic code. Phospha…
ISEF · 2015
My project is a second year study using paper and pozzolanic reactions to design a safe, affordable, and environmentally sound building material for seismically active regions in the develop…
ISEF · 2015
In a technological age where increased GPU performance is able to crack cryptographic functions faster, stronger and more subtle protection methods are necessary to prevent data loss. The ob…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
One in every 4,000 newborns is diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1), a common genetic disorder. Many NF1 patients develop painful tumors along their peripheral nervous system. NF1 patien…
ISEF · 2015
A study is being presented on observations of Kepler eclipsing binaries to study eccentric accretions. This study was done on binary systems KIC: 04848423, 010480952, 04157488, 4908495, 6620…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
n 2001, thiamethoxam, a second-generation neonicotinoid, was brought onto the insecticide market. Very few studies have been conducted on thiamethoxam for the purpose of integrated pest mana…
ISEF · 2015
For the past three years, we have been studying atmospheric inversions in the San Lorenzo Valley (SLV). In our first year, we established that strong inversions occurred frequently—as we had…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Detection of foodborne and environmental pathogens is becoming increasingly imperative for the maintenance of public health. Rapid detection of these detrimental bacteria may be greatly faci…
ISEF · 2015
This project’s objective was to build materials with unique optical properties, such as a custom tailored refractive index, with applications in solar cells and fiber-optics. Using self-asse…
ISEF · 2015
Traffic lights are one of the most dreaded aspects of daily life. They are slow and often inefficient. One possible fix is a self-driving car intersection. Since self-driving cars can drive…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of my experiment was to understand self-healing polymers and their interaction with catalysts. I studied the speed of rebonding with and without external catalysts on self-healin…
ISEF · 2015
Currently, between single-family residences, multi-family residences, and commercial buildings, buildings consume a significant share of the total energy in the United States, contributing t…
ISEF · 2015
We intend to build a low-cost electrical generator that will utilize the waves commonly found in a lake or stream. The rocking motion of these transverse waves will cause a set of magnets to…
ISEF · 2015
Representation theory is a field of mathematics that studies objects in abstract algebra by representing them as matrices. Objects can often be represented in many ways, and the most useful…