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 121–150
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
20% of total energy consumption is used to merely overcome friction (Holmberg and Erdemir, 2017). Friction comes from all places, with new rolling bearings accounting for over 420 terawatt h…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Standard rulers are astronomical objects with known intrinsic sizes whose apparent angular sizes can be used to determine their distance. Black holes (BHs) represent a potential standard rul…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Turbulence, one of the biggest issues in aerospace engineering, is categorized as the chaotic airflow and the rapid changes in airflow. The wing response to that flow of air is imperative in…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Current methods of metal additive manufacturing (AM) typically require high-power laser or arc technology to melt metal into desired forms (powder bed fusion and wire arc AM, respectively).…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
As the effects of climate change intensify, heatwaves become a pressing issue, underscoring the need for risk mitigation and preparedness. Nationally, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control an…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a chronic and progressive neurodegenerative disease associated with the deterioration of motor control and cognitive function as age advances. Representing the fa…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry
PFOA (Perfluorooctanoic acid), a type of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), is a chemical used in the manufacturing of many products. PFOA is classified as an IARC Group 1 carcinoge…
ISEF · 2026
Cellular and Molecular Biology
?9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is among the most prevalent psychoactive drugs in the United States, with nearly 20 million users each day. Yet, detection capabilities remain limited for roads…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry
Purpose: Drug overdoses have become a public health crisis in the United States, with approximately 68% involving opioids, particularly synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. Because overdose c…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum computers promise computational advantages beyond classical limits. Although reported gate fidelities are high for modern devices, widely thought to indicate high performance, they d…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (HABs) pose threats to aquatic ecosystems and public health, yet existing prediction models rely on single-variable correlative thresholds that fail to ca…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Over 400 million people lack access to basic healthcare globally, with physician-to-patient ratios below 1 per 10,000 in low-resource regions. Language barriers, limited diagnostic infrastru…
ISEF · 2026
Technology Enhances the Arts
This experiment aimed to create an Artificial Intelligence (AI) method that rates /s/ pronunciations comparable to a speech therapist, and more accurate than adults untrained in speech thera…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The field of humanoid robotics is currently bottlenecked by a lack of accessibility, high costs, high energy demands, and a lack of ease of manufacturability. This project aimed to create a…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the accumulation of misfolded a-synuclein proteins due to impaired autophagy. Enhancing autophagy represents a poten…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Acid rain, microplastics, road salt, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are among the most harmful pollutants affecting terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Acid rain forms when sulfur dio…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a neurodegenerative eye disease that impacts roughly 200 million people worldwide. It occurs in the macula, which contains a dense number of photore…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry
With the rapid expansion of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) to EV cars and modern-day electronics, battery waste is projected to reach 8 million tons by 2040. Current recycling approaches, enco…
ISEF · 2026
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Many neurodegenerative diseases involve progressive neuronal dysfunction associated with mitochondrial impairment, protein aggregation, and axonal pathology, leading to detrimental motor and…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences
Yaupon Holly and Yerba Mate are two economically important, caffeine-producing holly (i.e., Ilex) species in America. Yaupon Holly is native to North America and Yerba Mate is native to Sout…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Effective communication between air traffic controllers and pilots is very important for aviation safety. In this project, I use automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language proce…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Ankle-foot prosthetics aim to recreate the biological motion of the ankle and restore natural gait to transtibial amputees. Achieving this requires motion in three dimensions and a variable-…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Accumulated litter in community spaces has a negative impact on local economies and aesthetic appeal. While autonomous cleaning solutions exist, most current market products, such as the Roo…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Structural comparison between proteins is key to many research tasks, including evolutionary analysis, peptidomimetics, and functional annotation. Traditional structure alignment tools such…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Right Ventricular Endomyocardial Biopsy (RV-EMB) is an invasive procedure where myocardial tissue is obtained for diagnosis of a variety of cardiac conditions. Currently, catheters are large…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Organic biomarker analysis has been an essential tool for reconstructing the evolution of Earth’s climate, such as the last ice age. However, accurate reconstruction of Earth’s temperatures…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Most traditional detection pipelines miss eclipsing binary (EB) stars because they look for transit-like dips and disregard signals that occur between eclipses, dismissing them as noise. Thi…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
Scanning transmission electron microscopy (S/TEM) is essential for atomic-scale research that drives advances in energy materials and nanotechnology, but its operation is limited by labor-in…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Nearly 30 farmers take their lives everyday in India due to immense socioeconomic pressure from their families. One prevalent factor to this stress is the low crop yield, often caused by dis…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
A trocar is a device that creates ports in the abdominal wall to allow for laparoscopic and endoscopic surgeries. Trocar insertion has been associated with several surgical injuries due to s…