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 2161–2190
ISEF · 2024
Systems Software
This project creates a POSIX-style shell that runs WebAssembly, allowing programs to be shared between developers without safety issues, platform incompatibilities, determinism problems, or…
ISEF · 2024
Microbiology
8.2 million patients in the U.S. suffer from non-healing wounds infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Blue light and Sangre de Drago (SD) (Croton lechleri) have potent mechanisms of a…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biofuels are critical in combating the global climate crisis while providing increasing energy security. However, the current application of biofuels solely emphasizes the utilization of Bio…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics Third Award
The cryptocurrency Ethereum utilizes zero-knowledge rollups (ZKR) to improve its scalability. ZKRs processes thousands of Ethereum transactions in a batch and uses zk-SNARKs (zero-knowledge…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences
Decomposition plays a crucial role in maintaining healthy soil ecosystems. The breakdown of organic matter (field and harvest litter) by decomposers (microorganisms) releases essential nutri…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
My project focused on refining the Sukhoi-Su 30MKI fighter jet's airfoil geometry to enhance its efficiency and maneuverability and over 25 iterations of airfoil designs, putting each throug…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Patients with mobility issues or lower limb injuries often require caregiver assistance. Lower extremity exoskeletons can ease this burden. However, the current models lack terrain adjusting…
ISEF · 2024
Materials Science
Detrimental environmental effects of packaging waste have given rise to a shift towards eco-friendly packaging materials. A recent alternative employed are biopolymer nanocomposites, due to…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Autonomous unmanned vehicles (drones, etc.) require fast and resource-efficient perception and control to perform in dynamic, unpredictable real-world environments. Comprehending visual real…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry Second Award
Green fluorescent proteins (GFP) are used as markers to image ß-amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's diagnosis, visualize cancer progression, and measure drug toxicity. However, the large size of…
ISEF · 2024
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is an extremely rare neurological small vessel disease, affecting about 2-5 people every…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
Reed and Slater's rules do not accurately calculate effective nuclear charge in f-filling elements, and subsequent ionization energy values of these elements are difficult to find experiment…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences
American Livestock producers must balance the concern for animal welfare while creating a high quality meat product for consumers. This project investigates if using stress reducers in produ…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Third Award
The August 2023 Maui fires destroyed historic Lahaina town, causing toxic ash to become mobilized into the soil, groundwater, and ocean. This study evaluated the benefits of incorporating na…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Natural Language Processing has led to the development of voice recognition technology, and taking speech analysis further can lead to the development of technology to aid in treatment of sp…
ISEF · 2024
Cellular and Molecular Biology
With a mortality rate of 98%, primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is a rare and deadly infection caused by Naegleria fowleri. Many scientists believe with climate change and rising temp…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Cuscuta, known as dodder, is a parasitic plant which draws all necessary resources from its host through the formation of haustoria, root-like organ structures. Its hosts include Arabidopsis…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences
Turfgrass is a perennial ground cover adapted to withstand persistent mowing and all traffic. Light, water, humidity, climate, soil conditions and season, are key factors in selecting a turf…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry
Avian influenza, or bird flu, has been present since the early 20th century, with the first outbreak recorded in Scotland in 1959. Notable outbreaks occurred in the late 1990s and early 2000…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences
Noise pollution is a very present and common health hazard in modern times with its effects on humans often overlooked. This folly causes other animals relying on sound as a necessary commun…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Less than 1% of the Earth’s water, a nonrenewable resource is accessible as fresh water to us. Global warming, industrialization and exponential growing human population is exacerbating food…
ISEF · 2024
Materials Science
The fast fashion industry devastates the environment and garment workers in the Global South. Each year, 92 million tonnes of textile waste is deposited in landfills, equivalent to dumping a…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The main objective of this experiment is to address the question of how eutectic alloys (Aluminum-Silicon, Sn, Pb, and Ag-Based) behave under microgravity-induced freezing conditions. The ex…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry
Whether a diabetic or dieting, it's convenient to know how much sugar is actually in a food. Yes, the amount of sucrose is on the nutrition label, but what about the hidden sugar glucose tha…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The influx of nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen have resulted in the conditions for aquatic life and ecosystems to start degrading, causing dissolved oxygen that was once abundantly ava…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Clean drinking water is one of the most important requirements for survival and obtaining it can be a challenge if not impossible for many. One method of getting clean water is through filtr…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Geological deposits, volcanic activity, and weathering, along with mining, agriculture, and manufacturing are some of the many ways copper gets into waterways. Copper is one of the most toxi…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences
How do PFAS chemicals impact chlorophyll in the process of photosynthesis? PFAS chemicals, or polyfluorinated substances, are commonly found in things such as tents, cookware, and waterproof…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
Young’s Double Slit experiment proves the wave-like property that light has through the interference pattern it shows when light passes through the two slits. The goal of this experiment was…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences Second Award
To address the depletion of seagrass, this study aimed to understand seagrass conservation approaches by investigating the impact of varying salinity levels and temperature fluctuations on t…