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 · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals This project is concerned with the question of how to effectively praise students for good performance to make them better motivated, more confident, and more inclined to ta…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to find out which gender has better short term memory. My hypothesis was if males and females take the same memory tests, then the females will achieve higher…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals People all around the world listen to music every day. Some claim it helps them concentrate, while others claim otherwise. However, in the early 1800s, a different kind of "…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals If the photo was in standard color, then the volunteer would be able to distinguish the persons ethnic background easier, because the facial features would be easier to reco…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to see if young adolescents would tell the truth when under peer pressure. Methods/Materials Two batches of brownies were made following…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals It has long been a mystery to scientists why people are friends. This project investigates this question by using the Myers Briggs test to assess the personalities of pairs…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to learn about whether or not students who were stressed, whether it be about money or school, would also have higher delay discounting rates…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment is an investigation into the effect of note-taking style, typed or handwritten, on memory recall as measured by the test scores on a practice SAT# II Biology…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment is an investigation into the effects of instant or video messaging on student's reading comprehension. Methods/Materials An opportunity sample of 39 students…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if video game play before a test can improve test scores. Methods/Materials Nintendo Wii U console Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Mystery Case Fil…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find out if 'warping' the words impact the Stroop Effect. Methods/Materials To test how warped words would impact the Stroop Effect, I designed 6 tests.…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project investigated whether changing the color of the same drink affected which drink people rated as the sweetest; I wanted to learn whether I could use people's own mi…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if age or population size affects conformity. My goal was to help my subjects realize that they do base their opinions, thoughts,…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to see if it is possible to create a video game for blind people and if they will get the same amount of entertainment from the game as people wh…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine which thinking style (Divergent (a more creative thinking style that sees many possibilities) or Convergent (a thinking style that focuses mainly…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Students and children today are creating cliques and deciding who their friends are based on what they themselves or others wear. The goal of this project was to discover ho…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of our project was to develop a mobile application that aids color vision deficient people in identifying colors and helps children learn color vocabulary. Methods/…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to see how time perception is learned in children. We hypothesized that time estimation would become more accurate with age and could be learned with feedb…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals TO determine the percentage of high school students who have Anxiety Disorders, what the percentage for each disorder, and if the percentage of females is higher than that o…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Where's George is a non-profit website (wheresgeorge.com) set up for hobbyists to track the natural flow of currency by entering a bill's information, spending the bill norm…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My hypothesis was that the mathematical frequency of a note played on a piano could be correlated to a specific emotion. Methods/Materials After obtaining informed consent I…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine which ages best understand emojis. Methods/Materials Ten subjects from each of the age groups tested were asked about their expos…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if an increase in roles is the reason for an increase in self-esteem in the transition from teenage to adult. To analyze this, fir…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The United States is ranked 21st in science among the 34 OECD countries on PISA 2012. Researchers state that any reform of science education must take place "in the classroo…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to measure the effect of gender on optical illusion perception. The hypothesis was that if the subject's gender was female, she would be…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to discover if negative consequences or positive rewards are more effective as motivation and whether gender is a factor. Methods/Materials I tested partici…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals An experiment was carried out to determine if some multiplication facts are harder than others. For the purpose of this investigation, time to answer the fact and the accura…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To establish and explore the connection between the mental and moral stages taken from Piaget and Kohlberg's theories by analyzing the responses from the test. Methods/Mater…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals A leading problem in our society is the lack of physical activity in the lives of busy teenagers. Many students need motivation to escape from the pile of homework on their…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Ten male subjects and ten female subjects were both shown ten signs by the tester with a brief description of each. After fifteen minutes subjects were tested to see how man…