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 2551–2580
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) remains the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women. It has recently been demonstrated that stimulator-of-interferon genes (STING) is highly…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Our body has many ways to defend itself against foreign pathogens with the first defense being our innate immune system. Among the many different substances that can improve our immune syste…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The fashion industry heavily relies on synthetic dyes, causing 20% of industrial water pollution and health risks due to toxic chemicals like lead and arsenic. Most factories, mainly in deve…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences
High school students set aside a lot of time to study, but they don't have a structured method of studying. Students often cram for exams the night before, or even minutes before taking an e…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The temperature and salt concentration of freshwater bodies around the world are increasing due to environmental disruption. As a result, copepods, a keystone species, are being impacted, as…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
There have been many attempts at creating a submersible aerial vehicle, but these attempts have failed for several reasons. Most notably, these attempts did not perform sufficiently either a…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Excessive placental secretion of neurokinin B (NKB) is implicated in pre-eclampsia, a disorder associated with maternal health complications. Hormone antagonists are substances that regulate…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Sustainable Salads for Small Spaces: The Comparison of Lactuca sativa Growth Between Traditional Farming and Aeroponic Growing. Teagan Chisholm-Godshalk, Westfield High School, Westfield, Ma…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Sugarcane farming, especially in countries such as Honduras and Brazil where sugarcane is the nation's primary industry, has led to large-scale deforestation and further environmental damage…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences
In the United States, 96% of food deserts are in urban areas. Deep Water Culture (DWC) hydroponics increases access to fresh produce in urban communities however economic barriers from initi…
ISEF · 2024
Microbiology
Escalating plastic waste demands breakthroughs. Promising biological plastic recycling (BPR)—using microbial-origin enzymes, is little explored for poorly recycled polymers like polyurethane…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics First Award
A mathematical billiard system is one composed of a planar or multidimensional surface and a moving object whose trajectory is defined by its initial position and speed vector, along with so…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a leading cause of death, affecting over 55 million worldwide. Despite its prevalence, there is no effective treatment or cure for AD. The acetylcholinesterase (A…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
In the contemporary landscape of medical technology, the integration of machine learning (ML) with wearable electrocardiograms (ECGs) presents a groundbreaking approach to cardiovascular dis…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The second most common skin cancer, Squamous Cell Carcinoma, is a persistent problem that threatens the lives of thousands, yearly. Cellular reproduction is a factor allowing these cancerous…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry First Award
Post-Combustion Carbon Capture (PCC) aims to mitigate rising greenhouse gas emissions by sequestering CO2 from flue gas streams. Currently, PCC utilizes liquid amine solvents, such as monoet…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry Fourth Award
In recent years, single-junction perovskite solar cells with lead-halide frameworks have garnered considerable interest for their superior photovoltaic performance, facile fabrication, and t…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Reliance on fossil fuels has caused a large increase in carbon emissions across the world, with a 43% increase of carbon in our atmosphere since 2003. Aside from this, since 2021, the costs…
ISEF · 2024
Technology Enhances the Arts Fourth Award
One of the greatest challenges for blind and visually impaired individuals (BVIs) is in learning STEM subjects. Many key concepts, like graphs and molecules, are hard to comprehend without t…
ISEF · 2024
Technology Enhances the Arts Fourth Award
Around 1-1.5 million people became deaf in the United States later in life. How can they be taught American Sign Language (ASL)? To provide a solution to this problem, the researcher created…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award
By leveraging modern flight computer capabilities, I designed and flight tested an oblique wing aircraft (an efficient variable-sweep design where one wing sweeps forward and the other sweep…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Typical cancer treatments like chemotherapy are not targeted treatments and kill healthy cells along with cancer cells, causing negative side effects. Targeted cancer treatments are a soluti…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects approximately 366 million adults and 129 million children and adolescents worldwide (CHADD; Song…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry
Alzheimer's Disease is a neurodegenerative disease in which pathological Amyloid-Beta plaques of 40 amino acids (AB40) aggregate as insoluble fibrils around cells in the neocortex. It is the…
ISEF · 2024
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Breast cancer, annually affecting over 2.3 million people worldwide, is targeted in this study through the epichaperome, a network of proteins including heat shock protein 90 (HSP90). PUH71,…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
Natural products offer great promise as pharmaceuticals due to evolutionary optimization not seen in their synthetic counterparts, and because they exist beyond the reaches of most synthetic…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences
Lately, invasive Cuban treefrogs have been hurting the native ecosystem of southeastern USA, as they have been outcompeting native treefrogs, especially in urban areas, and are predators of…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In 2019 alone, there were reportedly over thirty-thousand driver related deaths and over three-million driver related injuries. Interestingly, over 60% of these deaths and around 200,000 of…
ISEF · 2024
Embedded Systems
The most significant remaining frontier of radio encompasses the band of frequencies from 300 GHz to above 30 THz, known as the terahertz (THz) gap. This range is too high to generate with s…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
In a world with more cost-saving, reusable systems in the aerospace industry than ever before, heat shields remain a largely disposable system which, in their reusable form, lack the thermal…