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 10831–10860
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical First Award
An exoskeleton is a machine comprised of an outer framework, which is worn by a person for the purpose of applying energy to aid limb movement. The uses of such a device include helping pati…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
Multidrug resistance is a major obstacle in the treatment of cancer. One of the major causes of resistance is P-glycoprotein, an ATP binding cassette transporter that binds and removes toxin…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software Second Award
The goal of the project was to develop an RNA interference (RNAi)-based, highly specific, bio-pesticide for the control of the psyllid vector of citrus greening disease. Citrus greening dise…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Second Award
In order to overcome the limitations of standard digital cameras, high-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging is used by fusing a “stack” of multiple pictures with different exposure times. This projec…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
A method of identifying and utilizing relationships within data was created. This system was implemented using a collection of agents that have individualized goals and are capable of self-d…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to create a new method of automated theorem proving for first-order logic. The method is a template for computer programs that attempt to prove theorems. The p…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are promising alternatives to conventional silicon solar cells due to their ease of manufacturing, flexibility, transparency, light weight, and low light e…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Alzheimer’s disease is the 5th leading cause of mortality in the elderly population. The disease progresses through the formation of plaques in neuronal synapses, leading to neuronal death.…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
This project developed a new statistical measure of effect size: rate-adjusted standardized mean difference (RASMD). The new measure represents an adjustment to Cohen's measure of standardiz…
ISEF · 2014
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The question to be answered is what water quality parameters contribute to the greatest amount of fertile Cephaloscyllium ventriosum eggs being laid. The main objective was to record how man…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
One prominent treatment for prostate cancer is androgen deprivation therapy, which slows tumor growth by targeting the androgen receptor signaling pathway. Unfortunately, most tumors progres…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical First Award
The utilization of half-metallic ferromagnets (HMF’s) has been proposed as an ideal method of producing spintronic devices, such as magnetic random access memory and magnetoresistive read he…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Third Award
The ability to be deployed through small access points and traverse through tightly-confined spaces much more efficiently than conventional mobile robots makes snake robots (a type of hyper-…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science First Award
The widespread use of CNTs in aquatic devices has led to an alarming amount of CNTs entering aquatic ecosystems. Due to their relatively new introduction, researchers have only been working…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
Overzealous MDM2-mediated ubiquitination of p53 characterizes and sustains over 50% of all human cancers. Targeted cancer therapy hinges on a thorough understanding of the ubiquitination pro…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
There are an estimated 5.1 million Americans currently suffering from Alzheimer's Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder, and by 2050, it is estimated that over 15 millions will be diagnosed…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
Since the recent birth of the Network-On-Chip (NoC) paradigm for simulating System-On-Chip activity, various topological and routing models have been presented to advance processing technolo…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Recent advancements in the development and availability of small-scale wind turbines fit for urban environments necessitate an accurate assessment of wind flows in complex urban settings. Pr…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
As the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women worldwide, breast cancer metastasis remains refractory to current therapy. Residing in the Polycomb protein group and altering the chro…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Third Award
Gene regulatory network (GRN) studies reveal crucial pathways behind debilitating genetic diseases. While GRNs have previously been found via biological experimentation (bGRNs), recent devel…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
The purpose of the project was to determine if adding carbon nanoparticles to a salt water solution exposed to sunlight would cause steam to emerge from the water without it boiling and prod…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Nosocomial infections, along with hospital errors, are one of the leading causes of death in America, resulting in 99,000 deaths annually. The problem being addressed is the prevalence of ba…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Analyzing how drugs affect the cell cycle requires cell cycle analysis. An approach using flow cytometry is limiting as the only parameter that can be collected is intensity. In order to obt…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Second Award
Although tuberculosis (TB) is the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease, affecting approximately one-third of the world’s population in some way, little is known about TB…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Currently, organ transplantation is the best treatment available for patients experiencing end-stage heart and kidney failure. Unfortunately, the ten-year survival rate of a transplanted org…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
The egg timer test is a novel test that allows women to know how fast their biological clock is ticking. The test measures anti-Mullerian Hormone/Mullerian inhibiting substance (AMH/MIS), a…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The purpose of this project is to design an energy harvesting piezo electric solution to power an internal retinal prosthesis system using the natural eye movement. The best and most recent…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The presence of noise is ubiquitous in realistic physical systems. Entangled quantum bits represented by atoms, spins, photons, etc., often go through a process known as quantum decoherence…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Second Award
One of the key challenges of wearable computing is to increase the efficiency and usability of human–computer communication, without burdening people with keyboards. This project proposed a…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Noise in data can mask underlying trends. These trends can consist of ramps, steps, spikes, sinusoids, etc., and may provide important information about the process being monitored. In order…