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 · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To discover how different types of video games affect the human brain. Methods/Materials Eight human volunteers were recruited for the experiment, and a quiet environment wa…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I researched the effects of a placebo on subjects aged 5-12 on vision enhancement to see if it would improve their vision or affect the psychologically. Methods/Materials I…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Human subjects will show physical and mental signs of caffeine use regardless of the caffeine content of their beverages. They should feel "better" emotionally and physicall…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals With an ever-growing military, in which numerous causalities are reported annually, I set out to create an exceptionally more effective and cost-efficient camouflage by util…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To determine which of three memory techniques, the loci method, rote memorization, and picture flash cards, is the most effective; and to determine if longer words are harde…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objectives goals were to find a less time consuming more effective way of training dogs other than verbal commands that will benefit dog owners all over. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this work is to identify the true authorship of student writings using an authorial invariant, a metric based on word and punctuation usage. This project ex…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the project was to determine if college students display gender stereotypes towards professors. Methods/Materials Three hundred forty-three college students c…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn which sense is more dominant: taste or smell. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained from 20 people: ten of each gender. I had all test su…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if the type of praise a student receives can alter a student's mindset and therefore influence their performance on an IQ te…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to find the fastest human interface device among a computer mouse, a computer keyboard, a microphone for speech, and a multi-touch touch screen used when i…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine what a child sees first, a word or a shape and if age affects this. Methods/Materials Consent forms were gathered from 51 children. Six flash ca…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of the study is to determine the extent to which each succeeding generation since World War II is aware of the sacrifices of the "Greatest Generation." Methods…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to learn whether or not an eighth grade student's level of education affects their view of racial stereotypes when given a survey regard…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The study primarily attempts to explore: 1) which specific factors such as chronological age, gender, and developmental level are associated with the construction of self-co…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The presence of change blindness in humans is indisputable. However, what has yet to be studied is which factors of an image can improve the success rate of change detection…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to see if children can perceive the difference between Duchenne (real) smiles and fake smiles in other children. Additional goals were to determine if there…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if girls could correctly identify the difference between real and fake smiles while being shown pictures of them, better than…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if cell phones increase your reaction time. Methods/Materials -iPod touch -Cell Phone with recorded stories Results The average reaction time,…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if color has an effect on blood pressure. I believe that out of the six colors (blue, red, black, white, green and yellow) chosen to test; red an…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our goal was to learn whether or not age or gender have an affect on what colors 6th through 12th graders are most attracted to. Methods/Materials We tested 5 girls and 5 bo…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to find out whether or not the color of a drink affect's a person's perception of taste. Methods/Materials I had to do two trials because the f…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This study explored the visual recall implications of grapheme-color synesthesia, a neural phenomenon in which the viewing of letters and numbers leads to the perception of…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to see if subliminal messages inserted into videos affect the viewers perception. My hypothesis was that the viewers will be more influenced…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to quantitatively measure how much texting while driving affects a driver's reaction time. Methods/Materials To test my hypothesis, I desig…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to obtain information regarding adolescent#s knowledge of healthy eating and physical activity, and compare this data to what the adolescents actually do th…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To study the compliance pattern of the most medically knowledgeable and educated group (physicians) compared to that of non physicians. Methods/Materials Twenty subjects- 10…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine if brain hemispheric dominance affects a person's visuospatial ability. I became interested in this topic because I am left-handed…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Last year, concluded that gender affect the reason of teen frustration.As a result of last year's project, I decided on investigating if this precise stress not only is diff…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if a figure skater experienced more dizziness after performing a spin due to vision (open or closed eyes) and the line of sight (head position in…