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 10951–10980
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to examine the different foraging habits of Anolis sagrei and Anolis carolinensis juveniles to observe how an invasive species could affect the foraging ha…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Halyomorpha halys, or the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, is an exotic pest in the United States that causes widespread damage to crops and fruits. The purpose of this experiment was to find a u…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Multiple renewable energy sources are intermittent in availability. This leads to fluctuations in electrical energy generation. Energy storage is used to provide ancillary energy to a system…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
An important area of pharmaceutical research is the formulation of a stabilized antibiotic that does not require cold storage, which holds promise of reducing costs and providing much needed…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The focus of this research was to computationally elucidate the change in dynamics in single-chain FV fragments (scFV) of the anti-lymphotoxin-ß receptor antibody upon various amino acid mut…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Today, several tens of millions of people suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, nicotine addiction and epilepsy. These conditions not only directly cause deterioration of quality of life, but the…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
Blood Oxygen Level Dependent Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (BOLD-fMRI) is a type of MRI scanning technique that makes use of the change in magnetization between oxygen-rich blood and…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
There are areas of the world where energy is scarce, and access to clean drinking water is limited. After successfully manufacturing a single parabola concentrated solar system last year, de…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
This project sought to investigate if, curvature forms of Cones, Chutes, and Coils could be better options than Winglets as wingtip devices that minimized wingtip vortices. Attempts also mad…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Due to the importance of being sustainable, recovering and recycling Amberlyst-15 beads was evaluated. The goal of this project was to analyze how many times in the organic lab the Amberlyst…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
This research study designed and tested an alternative prototype helmet based upon the sliding-layers concepts presented in MIPS technology. Instead of simple sliding layers, this prototype…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Hepatitis B virus (HBV), a small partially double-stranded DNA hepadnavirus, is the causative agent of B-type hepatitis. A replication-competent HBV vector bearing a reporter gene (reporter…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) could revolutionize patient-specific regenerative medicine, but their premature aging symptoms, currently misunderstood, limit their clinical applicabi…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
This study proposes a novel algorithm inspired by CCD which varies each pair of backbone dihedral angles in each amino acid simultaneously; essentially performing 2-dimensional CCD. Upon tes…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
About 600,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year. Atherosclerosis (the deposition of fatty plaques in the arteries) is the underlying cause of heart disease, and cop…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this experiment was to discover if copper paint on boat hulls, used to repel sea life adherence from the bottom of boats, can change the pH of ocean water. To determine if cop…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Castillo de San Marcos Fort in St. Augustine, FL has endured many wars and hurricanes for over 330 years. The fort was constructed from a native rock called coquina, which consists of compac…
ISEF · 2014
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Since 2002, the total retail price of United States beef has risen to over 25 billion dollars per year. The average feedyard cost to raise beef cattle has also increased to $494 per head. Wi…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Physiologic monitoring is a valuable tool for maintaining and monitoring the health of patients. The purpose of this project was to create a noninvasive, photoplethysmographic device that co…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Looking to create an electric current through the use of hot water and a natural draft, and with the use of compost, this would be a possible source of electricity. By using a hot water heat…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
I studied the relationship between abstract algebra and young tableaux along with representation theory. I found sequences and patterns in tables which represented multiplied permutations an…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Fourth Award
Introduction: Bacteria develop resistance to ß-lactam antibiotics by synthesizing a ß-lactamase to counteract this. It is vital to examine the genetic elements within the ß-lactamases that c…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Abstract- A new method of identifying relationships between taxonomic groups by comparing amino acid residues across well-conserved proteins has been discovered, and has potential applicatio…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this project is to determine how the temperature at which frozen Pisum sativum (pea seeds) are reheated after being frozen at subzero temperatures affect their ability to germ…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Organisms synthesize skeletons by growing crystals within specialized tissues to produce structures that are optimized to meet functional needs. An understanding of how macromolecule chemist…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Miniature satellites are revolutionary to the space industry. Most do not function more than a year or even four months, but they are inexpensive, light weight, and quickly produced. This en…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
This project explores the effectiveness of Curcumin, a polyphenol from the spice Turmeric, on breast cancer cells and its ability to inhibit the proliferation of neoplastic cells. It was hyp…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
Most cultured glioma cells die under temozolomide (TMZ) treatment. However, a U251 glioma strain that proliferates under 500uM TMZ, termed "UTMZ", has been derived from U251 cells by resista…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
As the explosion of data collecting technologies has led to complex datasets, a problem facing many fields of study is interpreting massive amounts of data. Sonification, transforming data i…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Do deer prefer trophy rocks or bio rocks? I selected this project because I love spending time outdoors and studying the habits of wild animals, especially deer. Also, the city of Aiken has…