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 Abstract Time is killed, crunched, beaten, made, or wasted. Incentive is likewise as fundamental as time. Incentives and temporal perception influence human behavior tremend…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Experiments were conducted to determine the differences between the sounds made by instruments constructed from different materials. Attempts were made to discover what effe…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals In the present experiment, effect of the Mozart¡#s Sonata and music chosen by individual subjects on short-term word memory is investigated. I hypothesize that more words wi…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals "User Content Generation"(e.g. YouTube, MySpace) is attracting huge interest world-wide and growing rapidly as an industry. Since user generated content (UGC) undergo signif…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn about how deep breathing affects students' memory. Methods/Materials 1. My experimental sample consisted of 78 students from grades 5 and 6. 2. As…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Do you do better at a task if you see the instructions or if you listen to the instructions? I am trying to figure out whether written instructions are better or whether ver…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment is to determine what effect the media has on body image and whether or not it influences eating disorders in teens. If adults and parents were t…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment is to determine who your smell interacts with your taste. Methods/Materials Subjects were asked to taste and smell two different flavors at th…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find out if the placebo effect worked on 4th-6th graders. I wanted to see if a piece of Botan Rice Candy that (they were told) "stimulates the cerebellum" would…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out if food packaging affects the way a person perceives how a food will taste. Using sixteen different food items I switched the packaging of seven…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I looked for a correlation between the ability to read a paragraph composed of anagrammed words easily (first and last letters are in the correct positions, middle letters a…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to investigate whether age had an impact on the Stroop Effect. Methods/Materials 30 subjects were tested in each of three groups: younger group (2…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Does the process of reading the word affect the task of naming the color of the ink the font was written in and is there a gender difference? Methods/Materials o Stop watch…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To discover which gender has better reflexes as they grow older. Methods/Materials 1. Put the test subject's hands in parallel, clapping position, 9.9 cenitmeters apart. 2.…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My experiments have determined the effect of witness confidence and clarity on accuracy. I also concluded the level of eyewitness accuracy when questioned using a questionna…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To find the most effective learning tool that provides the most efficient and long lasting utilization of time and effort. Methods/Materials To give a subject two tests one…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I decided to find out what effect classical music and hard rock have on a person#s heart rate because I always feel more relaxed when listening to classical music and feel s…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Estimation skills are important in everyday life, such as when predicting how many bags of groceries will fit in the truck of a car, or detecting computational errors. Howev…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To find the weakest taste thresholds for sweet, sour, and salty solutions. Methods/Materials Salt(sodium chloride)-10 grams, Granulated Sugar(sucrose)-10 grams, Vinegar(acet…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find the point of discomfort in human adolescents. Methods/Materials The materials I used were 50 human adolescents, one 150 centimeter measuring tape, a…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn about how your brain dominance (left or right) affects your short term visual memory. Methods/Materials We gave a hemispheric dominance inventory t…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project is to find out if people can take math tests faster while chewing gum. I became interested in testing this project because my teacher hands…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether middle school students can learn information better if they see it first rather than hearing it first. Methods/Materials Tested 104 eig…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals By using misleading or suggestive statements and questions in this experiment, I have been able to demonstrate effects on human memory when participants try to recall events…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Life changes and daily hassles lead to stress. This longitudinal study tests the hypotheses that stress in first year dental students will negatively affect performance and…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal is to how and what the volunteer view, which is like an optical illusion only dealing with gray shades. But i many change some of this information. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Aromatherapy has grown in popularity and the users do not have any scientific evidence that it works. Previous research has provided the information needed to conduct this e…
CSEF · 2006
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) takes an essential role in today#s society. But, ever since 2001 when the No Child Left Behind Act was passed, every school is expected to gro…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine if it is possible to influence a person to act outside of their "normal" behavior. I believe that it is possible to influence…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find how playing a musical instrument affects logic ability of middle school students. My hypothesis was that there would be a positive correlation between instr…