Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The goal of this project is to determine how efficient repetition is. Methods Materials: 30 volunteer within an age range of 10-19 Timer 3 sets of 3 codes written in Aristocrat li…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The objective of this project is to determine the rate of use, knowledge of different types, health risks and interest in the future use of E-cigarettes among suburban middle scho…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives my goal for his project is to see if rrading can help the elderly brain with its declining cognitive ability Methods Prepare the cognition tests, which is called the sage cognitio…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The objective of the project is to determine whether age has an impact on confirmation bias. Methods A random sample of adolescents and adults were given an adapted version of Was…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The objective of this study was to continue studying the effects of varying stimuli on the performance of sixth graders and adults by discovering the impacts of tangible vs. intan…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives My main objective was to trace down a general understanding of why people choose plastic straws over paper straws. What their needs/habits are, and if their decision is related to…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The objective of this project is to measure whether drivers' behavior changes when presented with emotional or consequential messages related to their driving habits. Methods Stop…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The objective of this study is to determine the effect of music, including the presence of words in music, on reading comprehension in high school students. Methods 3 short readin…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The purpose of this project is to find out what will help people all over the world get better and improved sleep. 95% of US citizens use some sort of technology before bed, and s…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective of this experiment is to discover how age influences right side brain activity. Methods 40 Participants split into 5 age ranges, Two Shapes, Paperclip. Tested to see…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The purpose of this project was to determine whether male or female individual students are more cooperative and if gender pairing made a difference. Using the Prisoner's Dilemma…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The purpose of this experiment was to find if color affects aggression in people. Methods I decided to test this question by giving 30 adults (13 men, 17 women) a survey while und…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives This project explores how personality, specifically introversion versus extroversion, affects a person's artistic expression. I hypothesized introverts would 1) utilize lighter, d…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The goal of our project is to improve the posture of users by creating a device with a constant alerting system to phase out incorrect posture. We aim to refine our device, so tha…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The purpose of our project was to determine whether fear affects spatial perception. Specifically, we tested how greatly a person s fear may affect his/her estimate of a cockroach…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives My objective is to determine if, when a survey taker forms an interpretation of what a survey is testing, they will give different responses than they would if they did not think…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The goal of our project was to determine how short term stress affects memory and performance in Middle and High School students, based on their heart rate. Methods 2 Pulse monito…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives People's worldviews, opinions, thoughts, characteristics, and feelings are often reflected in the way they write. By looking at which kinds of words increased/decreased in their f…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective of this study was to show that people put added value on something they construct themselves. Methods 3 test groups (10 people per group), instructions based on grou…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives 1. To create a lesson plan aligned with the California Health Education Content Standards that teaches high school students skin care and skin cancer prevention practices. 2. To i…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives Linguistic Purism is a linguistic model that refers to rhetors who consciously purge words and grammar structures deemed unpure or foreign. In the English language, Linguistic Pur…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Second Award
Objectives This study examined if music would help junior high students memorize. It compared how singing information as opposed to speaking it affected how well the information could be lea…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The World Health Organization (WHO) finds that 110 million people die every year across the world as a direct result of STRESS. That is seven people in every 2 seconds. Thus, the…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives This experiment was performed to investigate whether the economic status of young adults affect a tendency to lie for personal gain, or for the benefits of others. A preliminary s…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives This science project is all about stuttering, a speech impediment in which sounds or words in speech are repeated unintentionally. As a stutterer myself, I wanted to raise awarene…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives This experiment is a two-part analysis of the existing gender gap in STEM careers. The extent to which a gender gap exists is studied, and two factors that may be contributing to…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives This experiment will test a person's ability to recall specific details during both expected and unexpected events. Methods Test subjects, two actors, script and props for actors,…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The purpose of this project is to find out if students perform better on written or online math tests. Methods I asked 40 volunteers, 20 boys and 20 girls, to participate in the e…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives My project is about introverts and extroverts! I wanted to know if introverts or extroverts from different ages and genders were healthier. ? My hypothesis was that extroverts wer…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The objective of this study is to evaluate the associations between smartphone usage and the well-being and academic performance of high school students. The null hypothesis is th…