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 11611–11640
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Energy is essential for the existence of human life and plays a vital role in the progress of a nation. With the rapid growth in global population, there has been a tremendous burden on ener…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
There are more than 30 forms of Muscular Dystrophy which combined affects nearly 20,000 children born annually worldwide. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is the most common form of muscula…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is one of the major causes of end stage renal disease. Recent studies suggest that renal inflammation is critical for the development of DN. TNF-alpha is inflammato…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Anxiety is the change in homeostasis caused by a negative outside stimulus. The spike-topped apple snail has been revealed to be sufficient model for this experiment, since individual neuron…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
With the first confirmed discovery of an exoplanet in 1992, searches for planets revolving around stars outside our solar system increased dramatically due to the success of new detection an…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
This project was designed to find the statistics from the 2013 Major League Baseball regular season that showed the most correlation to a team’s ranking in wins. It was hypothesized that the…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
A) Purpose of Experiment: Most people understand that mercury inhibits certain enzymes which are essential for health in virtually all organisms. The mechanisms on how it is studied is not v…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
We consider a class of graphs called intersection graphs, which we can create from certain systems of geometric objects, such as line segments in a plane. Specifically, we are interested in…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The engineering of biomaterials with suitable biochemical, physicochemical, and mechanical properties is a major challenge in tissue engineering. While many synthesized materials have have h…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
As the demand for oil continues to rise, the number of oil spills that wreak havoc in ocean ecosystems also increases. Because this issue affects many natural habitats and resources, a cost…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Bacteriocins are proteins that are toxic to bacteria, yet are made by them. These proteins may provide an alternative to traditional antibiotics but synthesizing them using recombinant metho…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Although used by Pacific Islanders for thousands of years, Kava toxicity has been the concern of both the World Health Organization and many European nations, who have banned the import and…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project was to determine the magnitude and the nature of the effects that certain commercial pesticides, namely elemental sulfur and carbaryl (1-naphthyl N-methylcarbamat…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Second Award
Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer claiming 159,480 deaths in 2013 (American Cancer Society). Lung cancer may also become chemotherapy and radiotherapy resistant. Manganese Superoxide Dismu…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Danio rerio are tropical transgenic zebrafish that contain a mutant strain, making them glow when their muscles fluoresce (Zebrafish, 2010). The question was: Can Quantitative Polymerase Cha…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
In 2013, over 400,000 Americans died from Alzheimer’s disease. Early diagnosis may play a key role in increasing the success of potential preventive treatments, thus we sought to develop a n…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this experiment was to test a possible method to reduce photorespiration, a variation in the process of organic molecule formation, in crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plant…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
This project is the result of experimentation with assorted mediator concentrations and various dielectrics with the purpose of creating a high capacity, low resistance capacitor. To conduct…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Have you ever wondered if there will be a new biofuel that will help solve the current gas crisis? Biofuels are made from a biomass or plant material. In this project, green leaves and leaf…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
VP Shunts are used to treat Hydrocephalus and are prone to many issues due to blockage and infection. They cease to stop working properly within the first year of implantation in 30-40% of p…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
In the world today, approximately 1.6 million people die of waterborne diseases every year. There have been so many filters created, but they are very expensive and made of unrecyclable mate…
ISEF · 2014
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Earth rotation sets predictable daily regimes of light and temperature, and natural selection tuned all ectothermic animals to respond optimally to these cues. The timekeeping mechanisms, ci…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The hypothesis for this experiment is if a human views alternating stereoscopic video images displayed in a two-dimensional domain, such as a television screen or computer monitor at increas…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
As the redshift of a quasi-stellar object (QSO) increases, the velocity and distance of the QSO increases. Based on this fact, it was hypothesized that when plotting the intrinsic colors of…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The objective was to measure the spin lifetime of surface states on the topological insulator Bi2Se3 by a direct all-optical method. A pump-probe fs time-resolved optical study was performed…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Titanium (IV) Oxide is a common whitener found in a variety of substances with little to no research conducted on its effects on cellular activity. This lack of research provoked me to begin…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Third Award
In 2001, second generation neonicotinoids were introduced into the insecticide market. Thiamethoxam is the most used of these. It has a unique chemical structure that makes it highly water s…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
With world-wide rates of obesity increasing, understanding the biochemical changes associated with the progression of obesity has become increasingly important. Osteopontin (OPN) levels have…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Drimentines are a novel family of nine alkaloids that exhibit antibiotic, antifungal, anticancer, and anthelmintic activities. Nine forms of drimentines (forms A-H and 3,25-dihydrodrimentine…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics First Award
A pandemic outbreak of a highly pathogenic influenza virus such as the avian H5N1 or H7N9 strain could potentially kill millions of people before new vaccines become available. Since current…