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 · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if the use of a placebo energy chew would impact the free throw performance of an average sixth grader. Methods/Materials Parent participation…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In this study, I examined whether and how demographic profiling and personality are expressed in Virtual Worlds (VWs). The purpose of the study was to determine the accuracy…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals In today's world, there is a conception that foreign students are more intelligent than American students. The purpose of this project is to evaluate whether or not secondar…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine if talking on a cell phone created enough distraction to lower your concentration level. Methods/Materials Materials consisted o…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to see if students test scores could be improved by incorporating lessons from core subjects such as math and language arts in Physical Exercise (P…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goals of this project are to identify: the facial feature (eye, eyebrow, nose, lips and chin) which is most prevalent in facial identification, differences between recog…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine which types (categories) of images, excluding those of personal significance, people remembered and the impact of real-life di…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to identify any difference in reaction time while talking on the phone hands-on and hands-free. Methods/Materials We received consent from 1…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if elementary, junior high, or high school students could complete a Stroop Effect test with the fewest errors and with the quickest time. Method…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of our experiment was to see if the perception and/or experience of economic mobility affected whether research subjects would want the highest income earners…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to single out the main reason why people are less tolerant of bilingual people with foreign accents. When this reason is found, people will be mo…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to examine binge sleeping # the practice of sleeping shorter durations on week nights and longer durations on weekends, in pre-dental and dental students. I…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals As technology flourishes, the production of copious amounts of multidimensional data has revealed limitations in visual forms of data representation. Due to these limitation…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if human beings tend to walk in a circle while blindfolded and, if so, whether certain factors (such as gender, age and right- or left-handedne…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I chose to investigate whether male or female drivers will respect a stop sign with a witness present. I found this interesting because in neighborhoods so many people do no…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine whether teenagers can accurately measure one USDA recommended serving size of milk and cereal. Methods/Materials Collected Informed Consent Forms…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The hypothesis of this experiment is if a person is not able to smell, then they will not identify food because the cerebral cortex will not recognize the substance. Methods…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal for this project was to test the affects of media/commercials on 12 and 13 year old kids. Media is a huge part of the average teen and preteens life. We spend most o…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine how the gender of a subject affects the way he or she responds to human-like androids that can be categorized as belonging to the Uncanny Valle…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This project was to determine if there is a correlation between the dominance of one side of the brain, and the trait of having an extroverted or introverted personality. It…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Distractions have caused many car crashes because people cannot react fast enough when distracted. The objective of this study is to determine if age and distractions affect…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to discover if average people, out of three age groups (adolescent, young adult and middle aged adult), contained the ability to predict a p…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Age progression is known to have adverse affects on the brain, but does it affect all aspects of the brain? With this contemplation, I sought to determine the effect of age…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Based on the assumption that being overweight is related to lack of knowledge about caloric needs, the purpose of this study was to examine if weight status was related to a…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Hypothesis 1: Consumers of caffeine will have higher test performance after consuming the beverage than their test performance before consuming the beverage. Hypothesis 2: P…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To determine if the number of junior high students willing to accept a Facebook friend request from a random stranger can be increased by listing a certain gender or profile…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to investigate the effect of sleep deprivation on students' ability to discern facial emotions. Previous research has shown contradictory res…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment, based on the Dual-Coding theory, was designed to investigate the effects of different learning modalities such as auditory, visual, and visual with auditory…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I have always doodled in class. I came across an article about a test involving adults, half of whom were told to doodle while listening to a telephone conversation. Later,…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if there is a correlation between the growth mindset (defined here as perceiving intelligence as a changeable attribute, especially by effort--contra…