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 11281–11310
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The purpose of this experiment was to test whether the use of a micro-pin-fin heat sink to cool Concentrator Photovoltaics produces a significantly more uniform temperature distribution than…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Rockets, assembly lines, temperature controllers, and inverted pendulums use one thing in common: sophisticated control algorithms to maintain proper balance. The objective of this project w…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The goal of this project is to demonstrate that multiple frequency Bluetooth enhanced mobile devices with string-shape based structural-spectra pattern recognition software can provide a cos…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
For this project, I examined present day, three bladed horizontal axis wind turbines and tried to find a way to increase their output efficiency with post production modifications. The conce…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
In the agriculture industry and other fields dealing with significant crop management, mathematical functions can be utilized as a tool to aid users and to streamline the growing process. By…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
A primary problem of gathering hydrogen from electrolysis of water today is the high overpotential associated with the O2 evolution reaction. Research into anodic catalyst formation and comp…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
The objective of this study was to improve upon the design of a useful class of nanoparticles known as quantum dots (QDs), in order to improve their capacity for biological applications, esp…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
A primary goal of cryptographic research is to develop more secure cryptosystems to ensure secrecy in the information-centric era we live in. Only the one-time pad cryptosystem achieves the…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Wild beet, including Beta macrocarpa and Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima, is a major production constraint on sugar beet throughout the world and especially to the Imperial Valley, California’s…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
According to the biodiversity theory, the decrease in piscivore population will result in direct, shrot-term increase in planktivore biomass, reductions in crustacean herbivore biomass, and…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Third Award
The purpose of this project was to make a vest that a visually impaired or blind person could use to have an easier time moving around in their environment. The project was chosen due to int…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to prevent the deacetylation of microtubule-associated tubulin protein through the use of the inhibitory mechanisms of histone deacetylase inhibitors, thus…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Second Award
With a 5-year survival rate of only 6%, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is the 4th leading cause of cancer related deaths in the United States. Transforming Growth Factor-ß1 (TGF-ß1),…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
This project was done for the purpose of identifying the best source of sediment for a sediment microbial fuel cell. The initial idea was to determine which source of sediment generated the…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This experiment tested whether the muon count is altered by changing the conditions between counter scintillators, with the purpose of determining if applied fields could cause any deflectio…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Third Award
The treatment of tuberculosis requires a minimum of 6 months of multidrug therapy. Antibiotic efficacy is complicated by a bacterial subpopulation of “persisters”. The persisters are genotyp…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if Mycoplasma bovis could be isolated from milk fluid, blood, lachrymal fluid, and nasopharyngeal cultures. The veterinarian collected milk fl…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In 2010, the World Health Organization estimated that over 285 million people are considered to be visually impaired. Current techniques that attempt to help these people navigate require ei…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
Muscular dystrophies are heritable, heterogeneous, neuromuscular disorders characterized by deterioration and severe atrophy of skeletal muscle. This disease is caused by mutations in protei…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The Euclidean Algorithm is a method in finding the greatest common divisor of two integers efficiently, I have decided to observe the running time of the algorithm and create a Euclidean Alg…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
A critical issue in the world today is providing clean drinking water for people throughout the world. Nearly 780 million people are unable to access clean drinking water today. Despite the…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Neuroblastoma is an aggressive pediatric cancer, with two thirds of all cases found in children ages five or younger. Current drugs cause adverse side effects which greatly affects the devel…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Second Award
In the US alone, 200,000 surgical vascular procedures fail annually, primarily due to restenosis caused by a healing response known as intimal hyperplasia (IH). IH can be attributed to endot…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Pancreatic cancer (PanCA) is the 4th leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. An estimated 46,420 new cases of pancreatic cancer will be diagnosed in the US in 2014, accor…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
BACKGROUND: Research examining relative importance of multiple built environment features and their associations with leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) participation is limited in genera…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC) offer a cost-effective means of transforming solar energy into electricity, providing a vast array of applications and a potential solution to our global en…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Despite tremendous progress in oncology, many treatments such as chemotherapy continue to weaken the immune systems of cancer patients, increasing their susceptibility to infections and othe…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
The supercapacitors are getting considerable attention in recent years because they have quick charge/discharge capabilities, long cycle lives and are also environmentally friendly. Supercap…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Second Award
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) occurs when aggregated Beta-Amyloid (ABeta) protein causes massive neuronal death, resulting in atrophy of affected brain regions, memory loss, and eventually death.…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Aging followed by death is one of the most fascinating and unexplained phenomena of the studies of life science. Many different theories on why organism age have been established, but no fir…