CSEF · 2006
Tone Replication
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to determine whether there is a correlation between accuracy of tonal replication and various factors. Methods/Materials Thirty eight subjects we…
Search past science fair projects
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 · 2006
Too Close for Comfort? The Effects of Height and Gender on Personal Space Requirements in Preadolescent Students
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals One day while talking with my friends, I noticed that some of my friends talked so near to me that it made me feel uncomfortable. Others talked to me from so far away that I…
CSEF · 2006
Traffic Light Safety and Improvement
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to see whether the normal traffic light sequence (green, yellow, red), the blinking yellow sequence (green, yellow, blinking yellow, then red), or the blink…
CSEF · 2006
Voices That Speak to Us
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project investigates to which characteristics of the human voice -- pitch (frequency), amplitude, and timbre (overtones) -- people of all ages respond positively and ne…
CSEF · 2005
ADD/Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment via Hemispheric Syncronization
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals In our experiment we tested the effectiveness of Hemispheric Synchronization in the treatment of ADD/ADHD. The treatment should result in a decrease of slow brainwave activi…
CSEF · 2005
A Longitudinal Study of Stress in First Year Dental Students
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Life changes and daily hassles lead to stress which can negatively affect performance and health. This longitudinal study examines change in stress over time in first year d…
CSEF · 2005
An International Game of Telephone: Translation and the Transformation of Ideas
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My research showed that a substantial number of the world#s languages belong to the Indo-European language #family,# with various other languages belonging to four additiona…
CSEF · 2005
Are Musicians In Their Right Mind?
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My Project tested to see the brain type of musicians. My hypothesis stated that musicians would be left brained because of the left brain functions used to be a musician. Me…
CSEF · 2005
Arithmetic Differences: Does a Language Affect Arithmetic Calculations?
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective is to investigate whether a language influences the arithmetic performance. The hypothesis is that more complex number structure and more phonemes would lower t…
CSEF · 2005
Audio vs. Visual Learning
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine what kind of information, audio or visual, is easier for students to remember. Methods/Materials The materials I used were comput…
CSEF · 2005
Battle for Tonal Domination: Do Violin Students Have Better Relative Pitch than Piano Students?
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal was to test my hypothesis that students who play the violin will hear differences in pitch the better than those who play the piano because violinists have to focus…
CSEF · 2005
Big Brother Is Watching You
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to demonstrate that a driver's behavior can be influenced by the presence of surveillance cameras. I hypothesized that a smaller percentage…
CSEF · 2005
Blood Pressure: Boys vs. Girls
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Whose blood pressure will increase more after doing an exercise, boys' or girls'. Methods/Materials 1. Select ten males and ten females. 2. Take the student's blood pressure…
CSEF · 2005
Brain Food
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to see if eating a well-balanced breakfast, as opposed to an unhealthy breakfast or no breakfast, affects an average teenagers math and puzzle ski…
CSEF · 2005
Branded
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals PURPOSE: The purpose of this experiment is to find out if brand name causes consumers to have predetermined opinions about a product. QUESTION: Does a brand name cause consu…
CSEF · 2005
Can You Teach a Dog to Read?
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I investigated whether dogs are intelligent enough to recognize visual and scent queues the way they understand verbal queues. I also wondered which sense they respond bette…
CSEF · 2005
Comparing Diets to See Behavioral Changes in Mice
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals How effective are different diets if tested on mice? Methods/Materials mice,cages,pine shavings,bottle caps,steak, hamburger, salami, chicken, turkey, hot dog,celery, lettuc…
CSEF · 2005
Cone Cells and Afterimages
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if all three different types of cone cells (green, blue, and red light-sensitive pigment cells) on the human retina fatigue at the same rate. M…
CSEF · 2005
Determining the Effect of Font Type and Size on Mathematical Computation Ability
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I wanted to determine if font type and size of math problems makes a difference in a person's ability to answer math questions correctly. Methods/Materials I used a computer…
CSEF · 2005
Determining the Effects of Aging, Gender, and Education on Brain Hemisphere Communication
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine if age, gender, and education, affect brain hemisphere communication (BHC). Methods/Materials I made a PowerPoint presentation of 20 slides with…
CSEF · 2005
Differences in Personality between Non-Athletes and Athletes and between Athletes Participating in Selected Sports
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine if there was a significant difference in measures of ambition, perseverance, self-esteem, and power motive between non-athlet…
CSEF · 2005
Does Internet Affect G.P.A?
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project was done to see if G.P.A is really affected by the time students spend on the internet. If it results to have negative affects on students,maybe students will s…
CSEF · 2005
Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover - Or Should You?
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine whether or not people do judge books by their covers. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained from 100 people (25 men, 25 women, 25 boys…
CSEF · 2005
Do the Eyes Have It? Do Your Pupils Reveal Your Real Feelings? The Effect of Emotional Stimuli on Pupil Size
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Does pupil size change when a person looks at visual stimuli with positive, negative, or neutral emotional content, compared to control stimuli? Which type of stimulus - pos…
CSEF · 2005
Do You Recall? Using the Senses to Make Sense of a Dog's Short Term Memory
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn which of a dog's sense of sight, smell, or hearing has the greatest affect on their short term memory (5 minutes or less). Methods/Materials Using…
CSEF · 2005
Effect of Distractions on Reaction Times of High School Students
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals To analyze how various auditory, visual, and vocal distractions effect the reaction times of high school students between the ages of 14-18. Then comparing these results to…
CSEF · 2005
Exploring the Uncanny Valley: Quantitative Test of a Theory on Emotional Responses to Humanoid Robotic Faces
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my study was to quantitatively test the scientific validity of the Uncanny Valley theory (proposed in the 1970s by scientist Dr. Masahiro Mori to explain nega…
CSEF · 2005
Eye Dominance in Depth Perception
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to determine whether the dominant or recessive eye is better in depth perception. After background research, I learned that based purely on…
CSEF · 2005
Factors that Can Enhance or Degrade Memory
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to measure the influence different factors can have on the process of memorizing and recalling word lists. Methods/Materials There are thre…
CSEF · 2005
Fast Food Fear: Statistical and Microbial Analysis of the Cleanliness of Fast Food Restaurants
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was find out which fast food chains in Orange County are the cleanest, as measured by the gum underneath their dining tables and what is the effect of waste mat…