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 10981–11010
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Third Award
In order to meet the demands of computing and communication, new approaches are needed to increase data operating speeds to terahertz (THz) and higher frequencies. Guided wave devices afford…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
High refractive index (n) thin film coatings are widely used in the field of optics, which touches many aspects of our lives. One application of thin film coatings is in optical biosensors,…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Fullerenes, a new class of carbon materials, have unique mechanical and electrical properties that make them efficient alternates to traditional materials. Carbon nanotubes, a type of fuller…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
Online communication between students and teachers is irregular and inefficient. Teachers have begun to use the web to post homework, and various pieces of information about their classes, h…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
This project proposes new dynamic optimization algorithms that provide significant cache management enhancements over the known three basic algorithms for signature verifications to improve…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The purpose of this project was to design a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) prototype that has active control capability that efficiently stabilizes rolling motion while in flight and can mo…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
This report details the second phase of a two-year project to design and test cheaper and more efficient aircraft to be used in seeding or fertilizing crops. Because aerial application is pe…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The proposed engineering design was purposed to complement material spacecraft shielding already in place to mitigate the equivalent radiation dosage from galactic cosmic radiation and secon…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Heavy metals such as arsenic, cadmium, lead, and zinc are toxic industrial byproducts that often leach into local water supplies. Current methods of heavy metal detection vary in sensitivity…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death world-wide. Coronary CT angiography (CTA) provides a noninvasive method for diagnosing CAD by creating 3D data of the heart. Detec…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
To learn more about the origins and evolution of stars and galaxies, astronomers study star clusters, the birthplaces of stars. Our ability to study these clusters can be hampered by the eff…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Environmental dust causes multiple problems, including negative effects on human health, impairment of machinery operation, and production of sensitive electronic components. Multiple types…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
Streptococcus pyogenes is the bacterium responsible for streptococcal pharyngitis, impetigo, and rheumatoid fever. As antibiotics are often ineffective due to increasing antibiotic resistanc…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Local search is a powerful optimization method used to approach numerous computationally intensive, real-world problems. This research focused on designing an algorithm using local search op…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Achyranthes aspera is a plant found commonly in parts of India and has been anecdotally noted to improve the prognosis of pancreatic cancer patients. Because 91% of newly diagnosed pancreati…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Annually, 5000 kidney disease patients die while waiting for a kidney transplant match. The purpose of this experiment is to decrease this number by determining the efficiency of the optimiz…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Visual perception is an essential skill, especially for school-aged children, as it is needed to understand and decipher things, learn reading skills, copy text accurately, develop visual me…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The engineering goal of this project was to develop a solar powered device designed to be able to fully sterilize surgical instruments. This device aimed to find an effective way to steriliz…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Myoelectric prosthetics are among the biggest advances in biomedical engineering in the last 25 years, but there are still many improvements that need to be made to optimize device efficienc…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Initial experiments determined the effects of metallic copper on the growth of Escherichia coli. E.coli was exposed to copper metal strips and copper powder. The fine copper powder prevented…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Available sources of energy in the Earth are quickly depleting, necessitating the need for a renewable energy source. Biodiesel, solar, nuclear, and hydroelectric power are all sources of re…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Adsorption of bivalent heavy metal ions from polluted water was studied using dried powdered banana peels and banana peel pyrolyzed at 500°C and 600°C. The results were compared with adsorpt…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
HER2-positive breast cancer is characterized by an overexpression of HER2, a growth receptor protein, on the surface of the cancer cell, which increases the rate of cell growth and replicati…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Transcribing music is a difficult and time consuming task. Currently, no commercial software has been released to transcribe music automatically. The goal of this continuation project was to…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Second Award
Biofilms infections show increased antibiotic resistance thus necessitating the search for novel therapeutics. Bordetella pertussis biofilm infections, or whooping cough, have resurged globa…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
Agrobacterium tumefaciens causes the neoplastic ‘Crown Gall Tumor’ disease on most plants. The bacterium infects plants at a wound site and transfers a piece of DNA to a plant cell. The tran…
ISEF · 2014
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This experiment aimed to determine the effects of artificial night lighting on the life cycle of butterflies. Painted lady butterflies, Vanessa cardui, were exposed to various light sources…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Breast cancer is the second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer deaths in American women and causes around 400,000 deaths per year worldwide. The primary screening tool for breast cance…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Solution mining at the I&W Brine Well Site in Carlsbad, New Mexico has produced a large underground cavity that could result in a catastrophic sinkhole-inducing collapse. A church, feed stor…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
This project consisted of the design and creation of a system for prescribers to provide medication instructions to patients via translation, visual representation, and audio in order to rep…