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 · 2019
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives Many students prefer to take a photograph of the teacher s notes with technological devices rather than hand-write their own notes. We wondered if this might have an impact on stu…
CSEF · 2019
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives The objective of this project was to test if gum can help people focus and if so, does the flavor have an effect. Methods Computer, printer, and paper Four multiplication tests, e…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The objective of this study is to discover whether positive or negative encouragement is most effective in a learning and a physical environment. The overall question is "Which ty…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The objective of this study is to figure out if there is a cultural difference in how much spice can be handled with the following 3 cultures: Caucasian, Hispanic, and Asian. Meth…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives In order to determine whether children value something more if they worked for it, I studied whether children would rather keep something they earned or an identical item they rec…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives Social Media is replete with toxic comments. AI algorithms built to identify toxicity often exhibit bias as they associate identity terms with toxicity, lacking an understanding o…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives Cybersecurity is this generation's biggest challenge, and when 95% of cyber attacks are based on human error, educating the general public about online safety needs the highest pr…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives I am curious to use art as a way to develop empathy in adolescents. I am curious if the mode of delivery of this experiment (animation) can translate to higher levels of empathy f…
CSEF · 2019
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective is to see whether there is any correlation between sleep and working memory.The hypothesis is as follows:people who are getting less than the recommended 8 hours of…
CSEF · 2019
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The purpose of my experiment was to figure out if age or gender affect change blindness. Change blindness is when you don t notice that something changed in your surroundings. I p…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives The purpose of this project is to determine whether or not parental limits affect middle school students smartphone addiction. My hypothesis is that the more limits parents give,…
CSEF · 2019
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The objective of my project was to determine if stimulating the right brain improved reading speed and comprehension, for Dyslexic and non-Dyslexic students. Methods The experimen…
CSEF · 2019
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives Our project was inspired by the idea of the bouba/kiki effect, a non-arbitrary mapping between speech sounds and the visual shape of objects. The purpose of this project was to de…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives This experiment was designed to see if modifications to text would help to increase the reading fluency levels of students with dyslexia or identified reading disabilities. The sp…
CSEF · 2019
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives School environments are noticed to be stressful. We recalled times we became distracted by the stress given by teachers rather than paying attention to the lesson. We began to won…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives Our nation s report card for reading is at an all-time low. This is due to the failed ways to improve students reading levels. These methods do not push the students enough and th…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives The purpose of this project is to investigate how income, population, grade and school history impact the performance of a project at the California State Science and Engineering…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives In 2017, 4,832 race-bias hate crimes occurred in the U.S. (FBI, 2017). Previous research showed that high schoolers receiving character education became more accepting as adults.…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives How do people behave differently when they are being watched or not? The purpose of this project is to see whether people's behaviors change when they're being watched or not. Met…
CSEF · 2019
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives I wanted to learn if doing a headstand improves your memory and my hypothesis was, If doing headstands improves our memory, then people who do headstands will do better on a memor…
CSEF · 2019
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives For my science fair project, I tested students in grades K-5 to identify if they had any indication of colorblindness. In my experiment, I individually tested 40 students with a s…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives Opinions about social movements may stem from demographic factors such as race, gender, etc. My hypothesis is that demographic factors will correlate with opinions on social movem…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives In this study, I wanted to determine the effect of intense video gaming on school-aged students, by understanding the impact of the popular game, Fortnite, on students' academic p…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The purpose of this experiment was to try and distinguish whether or not Lactobacillus rhamnosus could make for a solution for average people who feel the need for anxiety relief,…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives I compared older and newer horror movies, seeking to ascertain whether newer movies led to greater changes in vital signs. Methods Movie clips viewed were derived from the 1960s,…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The main objective of the project is to identify if students are more impressionable into choosing an image with more number of likes than teachers. I predicted that if students a…
CSEF · 2019
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective of this project was to determine if a person's age affected the amount of time they experienced the Motion-After Effect. The hypothesis is that the oldest age group…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The objective of this study is to determine if we can use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to predict people's responses.
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives Reduce pain levels for patients, using a Personalized Comfort and Therapy System (PCATS) which leverages a Genetic Evolution Machine Learning Optimizer (GEMLO) to determine optimu…
CSEF · 2019
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective of this study is to determine if playing the video game Fortnite has the ability to distract your brain from pain. Methods Digital stopwatch, digital probe thermomet…