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 1141–1170
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Developing functional prostheses, especially for the upper limb, has historically posed challenges. Amputation of the hand due to military injury, disease, or other trauma carries significan…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Soft robotics, robots made of flexible materials, offer advantages in adaptability, and safer interactions. This study examines a pneumatically actuated soft gripper, investigating the effec…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a debilitating autoimmune disease of the neuromuscular junction that affects over a million people and can cause life-threatening muscle weakness. As current treatm…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
CRISPR Cas9 is a gene-editing tool that holds immense importance for precision medicine, yet off-target effects remain as a major challenge. This project aims to design ligand-functionalized…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
Importance: The likelihood of another COVID-19-level pandemic occurring within 100 years is currently predicted to be 17% and is expected to increase to 44% after the next six decades. Emerg…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Motor vehicle speeds were measured on five residential streets in different neighborhoods of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, to evaluate whether certain street and neighborhood characteristics may r…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry
About 1 in 7 individuals experience a mental disorder during their adolescence. Currently, the primary method for the diagnosis of these conditions is through clinical tools (online assessme…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, and is responsible for a third of deaths worldwide. Most cardiovascular disease is caused by the accu…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coal Fly Ash (CFA) is a byproduct of burning coal. Only 60% of CFA is recycled with the remaining 40% potentially damaging the environment (ACAA, 2023). CFA is toxic because of heavy metals.…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Katalox ® has been used to control sulfide levels in groundwater, but its reaction properties in high sulfide environments are unknown. Moyle (1944) found that lakes with high sulfate levels…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
Pancreatic cancer is the “king of cancer” due to its aggressiveness and high lethality. Although it ranks 9th in incidence, it is the 4th leading cause of cancer-related death, and is projec…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles are sub-microscopic particles that contain numerous pores, allowing for the loading of drugs for therapeutic uses. By developing mesoporous silica nanoparticl…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
A Below Knee Amputation (BKA) or Transtibial Amputation is a life-saving procedure performed when the lower leg becomes severely diseased, damaged, or nonfunctional. Although BKA recipients…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
The world of 3D printing has advanced rapidly, but the development of conductive filaments for use in electronics remains underexplored, offering significant room for innovation. To explore…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Researching and understanding inter-tidal and wetland ecosystems is important when assessing the health of our planet both within and outside the described marine ecosystems. The substrate a…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Current industry standards for responding to eutrophication utilize chemical coagulants. These coagulants, while effective, have harmful downstream impacts, leading the scientific community…
ISEF · 2025
Chemistry
Fluorescent sensors are organic fluorophores that detect specific analytes with quantitative fluorescence intensity changes. They have offered impressive benefits compared with instrumental…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
Environmental exposure to airborne silica and uranium, pollutants from uranium mining, has disproportionately increased the prevalence of the autoimmune disease Sjögren’s Syndrome (SS) in Na…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Drug delivery, especially for infectious diseases, presents a major challenge regarding the bioavailability and solubility of medications that are not effectively water-soluble. Infectious d…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
Magnetorheological fluids (MRFs) are smart materials capable of rapid, controllable viscosity shifts when subject to magnetic fields. MRFs transition from a liquid to a semi-solid phase as f…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry
Despite their widespread use in the food and healthcare industries, probiotics often die during storage and digestion and reduced therapeutic efficacy due to their environmental sensitivity,…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) allows physicians to visualize metabolism in various organs and is widely used in cancer and neurological imaging. The radioactive tracer, usually Fluorode…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This study explores the development of a hybrid solid-fuel electric autonomous rocket constructed from carbon fiber, utilizing bio-derived fuels as a renewable energy source. As the demand f…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This project investigates the optimization of airfoil designs to enhance low-speed aerodynamic performance and reduce the risk of aerodynamic stalls—a leading contributor to aircraft acciden…
ISEF · 2025
Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry: Development of an Assay Method for Zirconium Based on Chemiluminescence Andrew Zhang Norman North High School, Norman, Oklahoma, United States Abstract Purpose: To deve…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
Materials have rapidly become scarce and costly due to several factors, including disease, deforestation, worker strikes, and more. This year-four continuation project improved molding techn…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
Oncolytic measles virus (MV) strains can be engineered to express therapeutic transgenes and are currently undergoing clinical trials for cancer treatment. Detecting MV infection in tumor ti…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences
Citrus greening, or Huanglongbing (HLB), is the most devastating citrus disease, affecting all major producers. Florida was the nation’s largest citrus industry before HLB caused a 75% decli…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
The CDC and WHO report around 650,000 Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Ng) infections in the U.S and more than 80 million worldwide. Current diagnostic methods for Ng, mainly nucleic acid amplificatio…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
Radiation exposure globally results in 2-3 million skin cancers annually. This project proposed an alternative non-synthetic, environmentally safe, multifunctional UV filter. Preliminary res…