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 · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to assess the nutritional knowledge of people interviewed. From those findings, and from using knowledge gained from my previous two science fair projects,…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals For teachers to be able to understand students needs accurately with the least amount of time spent with student. Also to prove these studies are reliable enough to be used…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of our project was to determine if infrawaves could be used as early warnings for natural disasters, not only by scientists and seismographs, but by people in…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Seven different kitchens were tested to see if they were perceived to be clean and if they were actually clean. Eight different surfaces were tested. Petri dishes were inocu…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to learn about the art of juggling. Especially in comparison to other sports, juggling is relatively unexplored, and this project was desig…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals A reason I am doing this experiment is because left handed people have learned to adapt to right handed products, writing styles, and even their way of life. Most left hande…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I would like to know how well the average person can detect lying. Methods/Materials I recorded four people telling stories that were either lies or the truth and had 47 oth…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to find out whether males or females have a better ability to interpret facial expressions so I can prove my hypothesis that females do interpr…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to see if preschoolers with no formal math education are born with innate math abilities such as visual comparison and visual addition. Methods…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To determine the threshold of taste for sweetness, sourness, and saltiness and to find out what is the lowest concentration of a solution that still has perceptible taste fo…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals In the advertising world, people are presented with thousands of products through the various media. This project is an experiment in visualization to see how well short-ter…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine if age and gender would make a difference in decoding hidden images in optical illusions. This is important because if perception is affected…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals This study evaluated whether pharmacy patient medication information (PMI) sheets effectively communicate pharmaceutical safety information. Pharmacies rely on PMI sheets to…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Due to pressure from peers and images from the media, youths and adolescents are striving for thinness beyond the normal limits. Correct perceptions of body weight for middl…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to test pattern replication vs. three different age groups. If pattern replication is tested on subjects of all ages, utilizing four shapes…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To find out whether people remember writing better if they read the text, listen to the text, or listen and read the text at the same time. Methods/Materials Methods I teste…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment was to find if disaster relief organizations were creating and distributing disaster kits that were fitting to the needs of a suburban commun…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to see if correlations exist between a county's demographics and whether the majority of the county votes conservative or liberal in elections. My…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our project was to find out whether musical background and favorite genres of music affect people's relative pitch. Methods/Materials We had two guitars. (Guitar 1 and Guita…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My science class discussed an article regarding scientists who judged abstracts based on authors# names and affiliations rather than the actual quality of abstracts. This ma…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals For my project, I was trying to see which activity would slow down a driver#s reaction time the most; listening to music, talking on a handheld cell phone, or talking on a h…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals I heard about a phenomenon known as "inattentional blindness." The article I read said lifeguards sometimes do not notice swimmers drowning at the bottom of a pool because t…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Stereo Vision refers to the ability of animals and humans to fuse the left and right eye images to perceive the 3D world around us. This depth perception requires matching v…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals i wanted to find out how fast Males and Females could say the ink color and the actuall word on the index cards. Methods/Materials Males and Females in 6th 7th and 8th grade…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to compare the effect of different types of contextual clues on the analysis of words. Methods/Materials Thirteen people aged 40-50 were asked to unscramble…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My goal in doing this project was first to understand what role the teachers really played. I wanted to prove that it's not just what we are being taught but it's how we lea…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The object of this experiment was to discover which #indicators that show internal conflict# are the most and least effective in detecting lies. The operational hypothesis w…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine whether the 3rd octave of tone 'A' (3.52kHz) is the most distinguishable sound to humans. Methods/Materials 1. Downloaded for selected 4 sounds to an MP3 player…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine the effects that age has on a person's short-term memory. Methods/Materials Six pre-selected age groups were chosen to include people from ages…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This study examines the effect of driving distractions on the driving performance of adolescents within the Southern Californian region. Methods/Materials Prac: The subject…