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 · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This research study attempts to identify the traits or qualities that people associate with persons who are obese. Research has shown that obese persons are wrongfully discr…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine which flour-white, whole wheat or whole spelt-the general public liked best in chocolate chip cookies. Methods/Materials Our project entailed…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Goldfish: the most common pond fish. With all of the many variations is this fish as dumb as commonly perceived? No, new studies have shown that goldfish possess the power t…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My youngest brother's persistent thumbsucking habit inspired me to investigate the objective of this study (i.e., whether a habit established in childhood (thumbsucking) can…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if laughter had an affect on blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen saturation and/or blood glucose. Methods/Materials Twelve subjects were tested in…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to discover if cell phone's increase a person's reation time. The goal of this project is to relate the data to driving, and to show how mu…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the study was to find out whether people talking on their cell phones while driving tend to stop more or less than people without cell phones. I chose this to…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine what affect strenuous exercise had on short-term memory. Methods/Materials A computer program was constructed to test and record ho…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I noticed on some days my school backpack was very heavy, and I noticed my friends complaining of the same problem. This project was designed to figure out if students routi…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objectives of this project were to establish trends and common traits among asexuals, to examine possible causes, and to debunk or uphold commonly-held beliefs about ase…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Memory is an amazing aspect of the human brain that is used everyday for many different tasks. People use their ability to recall different things on a daily basis from stud…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Is recall from short term memory influecned by how the information is presented? Sicne acces to inforamtion form short-term memory depends on how well information is encoded…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find out if laughter eases pain. Would people watching a funny video be able to keep thier hands in cold water longer than they could while watching a documentar…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To see if age or gender has an affect on the ability to percieve an optical illusion. Methods/Materials Board with images was exposed to subjects and questions were asked Su…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals A driver, talking on a cell phone, encounters an unexpected situation: another driver, coming down the wrong side of the road. How should the driver be alerted? I tested rea…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to learn if the presence of music will affect muscle strength and which type of music will have a more positive response: waltz or rock? Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objectives were to find out if something easy, like laughing, would lower blood pressure, and if so, would the gender effect the amount of change in the blood pressure.Ov…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I am trying to find how people study according to their strengths. I believe that learning styles play a very large, important role in people#s lives, for they are the bases…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if brain processing speed could be improved if pure lemon scent is administered to grade-school age students. I was also interested to see if t…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Stress, a part of our daily lives, is one of the main causes of high blood pressure today; it increases our respiratory rate, blood pressure and heart rate. I am evaluating…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether or not it is possible to plant false memories into the brains of unsuspected individuals, through creative methods, like the process of…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to compare data compiled for boys' and girls' success rates and times when solving tangram puzzles to determine which gender displays stronge…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My science fair experiment was to measure the differences in the ability to memorize numbers, images and lists from elementary aged students to middle school students. In or…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project is a study in personality and how it may affect a person's decisions. I wanted to see if men really marry women with personalities like those of their mothers'. M…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Using 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students, my objective was to determine which medium would enhance reading comprehension: a printed magazine article with pictures, a typed art…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to see if music would help improve test scores, specifically in mathematical computations. My hypothesis for this project is that classical music, which is so…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My purpose is to try to find out which type of music, Jazz or Classical, is better for aiding in mathematical performance. I am testing this by isolating two factors that th…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Objectives: Our objective was to determine if the elaborative encoding process can improve the short term memory of Junior High students. Methods/Materials Methods: A sample…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal was to determine if people perceive unstable optical illusions differently based on hand-dominance, eye-dominance, age and gender. The hypothesis was that hand domi…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project aims to determine how individuals differ in their ability to detect delays between visual and auditory input, and whether this ability can improve with practice.…