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 · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to analyze factors involved in the short-term memorization and recall of words. Specifically, I focused on proving a model for word recall I sy…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to see whether certain people have ESP and if the results are positively affected by their belief in ESP. ESP is short for Extra-Sensory Percep…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine if children's fears of on-line predators, child abductions, and school shootings would decrease when the children were presented with the stat…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals About 20% of the English speaking population has a spelling disability. This study was conducted to determine if auditory and verbal pathways in the brain could be used to l…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Certain facial features will affect the way people perceive one#s honesty and I believe Race, Demeanor, Expression, Smile, and Eyes will be shown as the top five most affect…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine the genre of music and the tempo of music that produces the fastest typing speeds in words per minute. Methods/Materials First s…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project#s purpose is to explore the components of speech perception, to answer the question #What do humans actually hear when they listen to speech.# This project was…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to see if a cars speed would be affected by the presence of a childs bike in the street. My hypothesis is, I believe that the presence of a chil…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Does sexual differentiation in people lead to differences in their Cognitive or Spatial Abilities? Methods/Materials 40 Plus male & female subjects were tested in: Mathemati…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to determine if formal ethics training provided by the U.S. Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFJROTC) curriculum increases cadets'…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to figure out if students would pick up new vocabulary in a foreign language faster when the vocabulary was associated with a picture, or wit…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My expirament was to find out weather or not fake and real yawns are contagious. Methods/Materials In my project I will see if more people can copy yawns when they are real…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to see if kindergarteners recognize photographs or drawings better. Methods/Materials The materials needed for this project are 40 kindergarten…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I believe that the 7th and 8th grade students know more about the up coming election and goverment more than random people off the street. Methods/Materials I made up 15 que…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals We were curious whether our parents were right when they told us not to listen to music while we did our homework. Our science fair project focused on multitasking with audi…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine who had better short and long term memory, boys or girls. I predicted that girls would have better memory due to personal observation and exper…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals This project was performed to determine which types of sensory perception (visual, aural, or tactile) resulted in stronger short-term and long-term memory for humans. Method…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was a test to see if heavy metal has negative effects, both physical and mental, on people. Methods/Materials I had people listen to heavy metal and classical mus…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This Middle School Decision Making Project investigates the following hypothesis: in situations where decision-makers must consider large amounts of information in drawing c…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals During my experiment, I wanted to see if the human brain took into consideration age and gender when observing optical illusions, the Stroop Effect, and warped words. My obj…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To see if listening to Mozart while taking a test helped the kids do better on the test. Methods/Materials Test materials were compiled with the assistance of the third grad…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if playing pre-recorded upbeat music, pre-recorded soft music, and no music affected the number and size of donations made to a non-profit organizati…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if changing the food labeling on a food product would change how people perceived the food. Methods/Materials The materials I used…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals If 40 individuals [indivs.] take 4 similar math tests, each test taken while listening to a louder volume [vol.], then each indiv. will receive the highest % w/ the lowest v…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Can Re-Mission the video game I played while receiving cancer treatment cause, a change in cognitive perceptions leading to improved health related outcomes such as self eff…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Problem: What group of people, based on a number of variables (age, gender, city of residence, etc.) can find a given object in a refrigerator in the least time? Hypothesis:…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This study will attempt to prove that meditative techniques have observable effects on cognitive functioning, such as cued recall, a certain type of memory. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The recent wildfires in Southern California generated a lot of fear in everyone. The purpose of this experiment was to understand the nature of physiological (external) resp…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to determine if age has an affect on people's performance on the Rubik's cube. I hypothesize that the oldest age group would perform at the highes…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal was to show a correlation, if any, between a student's electronic media usage on a school night and his/her GPA. Methods/Materials I asked my school principal to giv…