38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to find out which color makes a visual search the easiest and most difficult for each gender. Methods/Materials 11 sheets of computer paper,…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if the impact of praise and criticism on performance change with age, specifically on adults and sixth graders. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to measure and analyze how running unshod affects a runner's speed and strike style compared to running shod. Methods/Materials Volunteers ra…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Race relations have always been a difficult and sometimes painful topic to discuss in America. In the recent presidential elections, racial biases and attitudes seemed to be…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to find out if violent cartoons affect the way people think. Methods/Materials The subjects were shown either a violent cartoon or nonviolent…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my science experiment was to raise awareness and increase understanding of a very common learning disorder called dyslexia by simulating what reading with d…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Numbers are a universal, easily-measured concept taught to children by parents/caregivers. The goal is to understand the effect of different number representations in childr…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objectives of this experiment are to explore the effect of ethnicity and gender on personality, find the approximate personality ratio between traits in society, and tes…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals If someone played video games for thirty minutes everyday for thirty days, could it improve short-term memory? What category of memory scores would improve or decline if the…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if males or females could process visual information more accurately and at a faster rate. Previous research done on this subj…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals Climate change is one of the biggest challenges my generation will face. The purpose of my project was to find what factors influence junior high students' opinions on clima…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine whether or not white noise has a negative impact on memory. Methods/Materials A noise emitting device, approximately 50 students,…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goals of this research were to determine the effect of gender on the efficacy of group based cognitive tasks, and to identify the potential existence of an age bias cond…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if online learning or traditional learning was more effective. Methods/Materials A videogame made with RPG Maker, a powerpoint software, a clas…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to gain better insight on how the changes in cultural settings directly influence changes in social values. Methods/Materials In this pro…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals When you apply for a job, you probably had to turn a paper or email resume. But when I grow up and apply for a job, employers will probably google me or look me up on social…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose behind this experiment was twofold. The first objective was to determine whether reading print inverted text was a universal trait. Secondly, if so, is this trai…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals Vocabulary is essential part of education and facilitates effective communication. Many learn vocabulary by memorizing definitions without understanding and never use them.…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this research project was to develop an intuitive self-help software application for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that features novel virtual tre…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if being socially and culturally exposed to a certain race will allow a student to more easily identify an ethnicity within that…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is based on auditory memory and visual memory, questioning which is superior over the other. My goal is to test a group of ten 7th graders on the…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to see whether or not people could improve their hearing ability by turning off their vision and if so, to see if the improvement had a…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project is testing how good humans are at spotting a liar and the theory of whether you can spot a liar more efficiently by analyzing peoples body language and looking fo…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to identify whether synesthesia is rare or more prevalent than we think? I believe synesthesia is rare. My research states that one out of e…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals As the United States is falling behind in STEM education and struggling with the achievement gap, there have been many practical obstacles concerning teachers and existing m…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if color affects memory. More specifically, will highlighting help retain information. Methods/Materials Tested effectiveness of color on memor…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Dollar bills stamped with the "wheresgeorge.com" website were spent in Yolo or Sacramento County. Bills were tracked over time from their starting points by monitoring locat…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The object of this study is to determine whether every case of cyberbullying, no matter the size, affects the symptoms of depression. Methods/Materials I developed a questio…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our project tested the effect of using audible and visual priming on a person's perception of food. Methods/Materials We used two visually different types of cookies, a posi…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment was orchestrated to answer the following question: How does a person's intuition affect their ability to thin-slice? Thin-slicing is defined as the ability t…