Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine which colored square could be seen at the lowest angle put of the volunteers side vision. I believe at the pink colored square would be seen at t…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to observe the effects of animal-assisted therapy on children with autism disorder. The hypothesis was that the real rabbit would have the most…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to see which distance between two cameras edits together to make the most preferred 3D video. Methods/Materials Thirty-six subjects were sho…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals People diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder ("ADHD") tend to be more hyperactive than those who do not have ADHD. Unfortunately, ADHD is often thought of…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To understand how distance affects parallax shift--specifically how far an object appears to leave your field of view as it is moved closer. The observer stands at a distanc…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to identify whether synesthesia is rare or is synesthesia more prevalent than we think? I believe that synesthesia is rare. My research stat…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective in the project was to discover whether students who kept gratitude journals over a 10 day period showed a more positive outlook on life and performed better in…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The bouba kiki effect is the psychological mapping of physical features with sounds. I chose this project after watching a dance performance and noticing how much the dancer…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to discover when and if children develop a gender bias towards different day to day occupations. Methods/Materials I needed to make 8 display…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of education on the attitude towards sunscreen. Exploring this topic is extremely important because wearing sunscreen an…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if birth order effects leadership. Methods/Materials First, have students fill out a survey that asks their name, gender, birth date, birth order,…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Most canned food in the U.S. contains the chemical BPA in the lining, and 95% of Americans have a detectable amount of BPA in their urine. I set out in this experiment to se…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (2013), more than 10,000 people die each year in alcohol-impaired and drowsy driving crashes. To prevent such…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to see if people could learn by playing a video game. Methods/Materials I created a video game using RPG Maker 2003. In this game, I had informatio…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To find out if adults with different levels of education could pass an 8th grade science quiz with a score of 70% or better. Methods/Materials I used a basic 8th grade scien…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine if spatial cognition is affected by playing chess, gender, and grade level. Methods/Materials In my experiment, I used an o…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if there were trends in how people, based on race and ethnicity, associated certain colors with positive and/or negative words. Me…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to compare the extent to which various factors affected the crime rates in communities throughout the country, using the K-Means clusterin…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to see if scrambling the letters of the words in the tests would affect the speed and accuracy of the subjects scores on the Stroop Effect test. T…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
First Award
Objectives/Goals Movies have progressed dramatically over the years, but no one has produced inexpensive 3-dimensional sound. I love film and the process of post-production sound. The purpos…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine Ventura High School students# sexual activity, condom use and interest in getting an HIV test at school. This information will…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal was to determine if people with facial features that are consistent with the Golden Ratio (phi=1.618) are regarded as more beautiful than people whose facial featur…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine whether or not people regularly find celebrity faces with proportions closest to the Golden Ratio to be most attractive. I believe that if I cal…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine which two minute task, sitting in silence, listening to music, and playing 'Temple Run', 6th graders thought went by the quic…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The idea for our conformity experiment sparked one day at school when we began to notice that during a class vote, many people changed their vote to fit the majority. We won…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Eating disorders are a growing problem among teenagers and could possibly have a significant impact on their health. I became interested in this project because I constantly…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I did this project to see if left-brain and right-brain hemisphere activity could be recorded on an EEG to indicate (left brain) mental imagery/preparation and transition to…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose was to investigate correlations between presence, immersion, perceptual modality, stress and kinetosis in vision-dominated virtual reality (VR) compared to limit…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Third Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if memory performance is affected by inaudible sounds with different frequencies. One study found that high frequency sounds audible to non-human a…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals As technology advances as the years pass by, schools have gradually implemented increasing use of technology in the curriculum. Administrators believe the incorporation of t…