Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals In the USA, there is huge demand for transplantable organs with over 110,000 people on the waiting list to receive an organ and, of these, 18 people die everyday. African-Am…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine at what grade level can children distinguish between candy and non-candy items. Methods/Materials To test my project, I tested 1…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The existing literature regarding social anxiety and self-esteem among those with tattoos is limited and conflicting. Some findings suggest that those considering getting a…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The reason we did this experiment is to figure out why people bully. Methods/Materials The materials we needed for this experiment is; paper, pencil and 60 middle-school stu…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal is to determine if people can actually estimate and identify numbers greater than 3. According to a study done in Nicaragua, people can determine numbers up to 3, b…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This experiment is aimed at discovering, #Does our expectation affect our hearing perception?# We also want to find out if children#s hearing perception is sharper and more…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project's purpose was to determine if the exposure of visual depth cues can improve or have an impact on children's drawings. Methods/Materials One-hundred sixteen stud…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To examine differences in cognitive performance among control, SZ & BD patient groups, & their first-degree relatives, and determine the degree of genetic liability of BD &…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if there were trends in how people associated certain colors with positive and/or negative words. Methods/Materials I designed the…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Do various test anxiety self-regulation methods affect math fact test scores? Methods/Materials Consent was obtained from fifteen elementary school individuals. Students com…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project was inspired by the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment, which tested children#s ability to delay gratification by not eating a marshmallow treat for a while, and e…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective was to see if a person's perceived value will be affected by store marketing tactics. Decide on the type of products. Products were chosen for the project and…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Type-2 Diabetes is a prevalent issue in today#s society. Recent estimates have placed 25.8 million people -- in the U.S. alone with this condition, and a further 70.9 millio…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals 1) To determine the pros and cons of using iPads in the classroom 2) To study the effects on students using iPads: considering behavior, retention, and test scores Methods/M…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to use the Dispositional Attitude Measure developed by two university professors to determine what percentage of the population has a positive dispositional…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My experiment will examine if photographs of people with facial measurements closer to the Golden Ratio will be considered "more beautiful" in the eyes of test participants…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to find out if color does affect learning and memory. It is important because it can change the way we learn. Based on my research, my hypothe…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment is to see if video games have an effect on heart rate and the ability to focus. My hypothesis is that playing video games causes stress and decr…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study is to determine if social media and its frequent occurrence in adolescence lives impact the adolescence themselves in their ability to verbally com…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The most important thing to a teenager is sleep. We want to get as much of it as possible. On school nights, we are frequently up past midnight with schoolwork, sports and e…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effectiveness of perceptual modality based test preparation in comparison to that of Universal Design for Learning te…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Second Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine which was more distracting to drivers, talking on a cell phone held to one's ear, or talking on a hands-free cell phone device. My goal was to…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To determine if there is a relationship between childhood toys and STEM careers. Studies have shown that there is a very low percentage of our youth pursuing a STEM careers.…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see at what delay is "Delayed Auditory Feedback"(DAF) most effective at inducing difficulty in speech. I believed that it would be 200ms, which is what a…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals 2/3 of the 5 million Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases over age 65 in the U.S. are women. Using linear mixed effects regression (LMER), this project investigated the role of ge…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to see if people prefer grass fed beef over grain fed beef. I live on a ranch and we raise and show both types of beef. Grain fed beef tends to…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals It#s a widely accepted notion that multitasking has negative impacts on productivity. However, there was no complete quantitative study on age and gender differences in the…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine how the eye reads words. Does the eye read a full word or does it read individual letters? I hypothesized that the brain concentrat…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals There are currently no trainings designed for adolescents to improve their ability to recognize facial emotions which can impact their social relations and communication. Th…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Daytime driving is generally safer than driving at night due to an abundance of light. The purpose of this project is to test if there is a relationship between the intensit…