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
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This is a study designed to investigate the effects of the presence of representative information on the false consensus effect as measured by the mean score received on a s…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals How accurate is eye witness testimony. The hypothesis for this experiment is that eyewitness testimony will not be accurate because memory is not an exact science. Methods/M…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The project objective was to determine if the smell of strong, pleasant odors can improve the ability of a subject to memorize and recall information through the stimulation…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals To determine whether there is a connection between the human factor in password composition/usage and the relative entropy of the password. Methods/Materials No tangible mat…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Hypothesis: If 3-5 year old boys & girls participate in the 3 stereotype exercises, then it will be found that the majority have preconceived ideas of thin, average, and ove…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal was to determine whether a fencer's location on the fencing strip effected how many touches they score. I believe that a fencer will score more touches when pushing…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the project was to determine if fifth and sixth grade students display gender stereotypes towards babies and teachers. Methods/Materials Study 1 examined gend…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to discover which presentation of a school hot lunch, whether the lunch was on a plate, a tray or in the pre-packaging, would be more ap…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The delay in recognizing words printed in various colours is a well-documented phenomenon known as the Stroop effect. This particular anomaly is more prevalent with words to…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This study tested if gender, piano playing, use of T.V. use of the computer, or use of texting affects how a person multitasks. Methods/Materials Each test subject filled ou…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective to my project is to determine if students exposed to positive subliminal messages in their instruction will show a higher growth in scores on timed multiplicat…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to discover if Natural Environment Teaching (NET) is more effective than traditional Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT) methods used to educate ch…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our goal is to possibly get food companies to change the color of the food. For example a potato chip in the color of something unappealing and broccoli in the colors of rai…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals Last year my friend developed a severe eating disorder and was sent away for three months to a hospital. As a result, I became interested in how adolescents cope with stress…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My project tests the correlation between symbol-color synesthesia and accuracy in recognizing emotions in faces (emotion recognition). Synesthesia is like a sixth sense and…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this analysis was to determine if bankruptcy and divorce filings in Kern County follow national trends which indicate there are fluctuations in the number o…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if a glass chess set or a wood chess set will allow your brain to detect more possible moves in different scenarios. Our hypothesis is that a w…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if Augmented Reality (AR) can be used to enhance learning among various individuals. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained from 36 rand…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment was to discover whether the effects of beta binaural beats on problem-solving ability could be altered by combining the frequencies with vari…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My study was to determine if psychological reinforcement would affect the free throw accuracy of an individual. I also wanted to find out if psychological reinforcement woul…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My goal was to test where people click on a web page by creating a mock news website and instructing the users to click on the first interesting thing they saw, then storing…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine if the color of text affects a person's memory. I hypothesize that the color of text affects a person's memory by catching his/her attention and making him/her…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out if and how a person's mindset affected his/her ability to break boards in tae-kwon-do. Methods/Materials In the experiment, I had participants b…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine the affect age has on automatic number sense. Based on my 2010 results, this year I focused more on fast questions that require no reading and…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if more attractive packaging would promote healthier eating. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained from 80 randomly…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective was to test if the power of suggestion can influence a person's perception of reality. The goal was to see if people's perception of what they smelled could be…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to investigate whether or not anonymous shoppers overspend at Costco and by how much. Our hypothesis prior to conducting a brief survey was that the averag…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I wanted to determine if teams benefit from a home field advantage in the four major professional sports (basketball, baseball, ice hockey, and football). Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To perceive the lightnesses of surfaces, the brain not only takes their luminances into account but also the scene context. The "checkershadow illusion" probes such contextu…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if playing music versus not playing music prior to an IQ test affected an individual's score on it, and if so, if there was any detectable vari…