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 · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I love to curl up with a good book. These days, however, many people would rather curl up with their electronic reading devices. Since such devices are replacing books in ma…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to prove that the hindrance caused by the Cambridge Word Scramble integrated with the Stroop effect can be directly correlated to inefficiency while multit…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Do students remember what they read better when they take notes or draw a diagram? Methods/Materials I used two reams of copy paper and ten large envelopes. Results Experime…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine whether placing scents (citrus, rosemary, or sandalwood) in classrooms could improve student performance on mathematical (left-b…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Can memories be warped and changed by suggestion? If so, to what extent does gender play one's susceptibility to suggestion? And finally, are eye witness testimonies trustwo…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine whether singers or instrumental musicians would have a better sense of relative pitch - the ability to recognize distances…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This study examines the association of sleep patterns with psychological health in pre-dental and dental students. It is hypothesized that short sleep duration, high sleep d…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to see if smell affects taste. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained from 24 people. The people were blindfolded and nose plugs…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine the type of sound wave that is most differentiable to the human ear when layering multiple instances of that type of sound wave.…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our goal is to test if the students would focus more on the tests when they exercised. When someone exercises oxygen circulates through the brain, and oxygen is proven to in…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine which distractions have the most impact on drivers# ability to focus. Methods/Materials Ten subjects, ages 10 to 12 participated in…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if kids with parents and friends that curse and also watch movies or shows that have cursing in them, curse more than kids who do not. Methods/Ma…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The primary objective was to test whether people who use color artistically or practice a lot with color are able to overcome conflict between color and word. I tested this…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to identify corresponding trends in stock market changes in the countries of Great Britain, Saudi Arabia, China and the United States, as a…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I have been playing and watching basketball my whole life. In the 6th grade I entered a free throw competition, and as I looked around at other competitors, I thought to mys…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To test for the age group that had the highest amount of synesthetes. Methods/Materials 1. Surveys 2. Test subjects 3. Camera for documentation 4. Pen or pencil to record da…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if memory is affected by recording information on a keyboard versus handwriting. This study is particularly relevant in today's society, as key…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to delve into the potential association of cognitive aptitude, quantified in this study in the form of students' grade point average (GPA, with o…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Aromatherapy has been used around the world for various applications-- stress relief, increase in alertness, memory improvement, relaxation, and even mood enhancements. In m…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to measure the effect of monocular vision versus binocular vision on optical illusion perception. The hypothesis was that if the subject…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine the effects of screen background color on computer users' reaction times. I hypothesized that when a green background is dis…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals This is an experiment designed to investigate the effects of texting on driving performance, as measured by the mean time necessary to complete a 2.1 mile course using the d…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine which gender can best identify the 3-dimensional mystery shape inside a masked box the most accurately. I hypothesized that males…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if scent affects work efficiency. I hypothesize that scent does affect work efficiency. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained from 33…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if left handed people were more proficient with their right hand than right handed people with their left hand. Methods/Materials 30 left hande…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to identify how information such as age, gender, familial status, and criminal record affected whether or not a "prisoner" in a Prisoner…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine how large is the space between two middle school girls, two middle school boys, and a middle school boy and girl, when they meet or start engagin…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals For my project, I wanted to see whether increased parental awareness of a negative student behavior -- in this case, student truancy -- could affect, and stop, that behavior…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of the study was to determine the status of student's racial beliefs, attitudes and preferences. The researcher's hypothesis was that when given a questionnair…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment is to determine which color (blue, green, red, orange) will attract the most recycling content due to color association and its behavioral ef…