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 · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to assess the difference in reading comprehension of middle school students when using paper or digital reading sources. I also aimed to asse…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Is a 2 week waste loss challenge an effective way to promote waste reduction among my family and friends? Methods/Materials #Power Point presentation with statistics and fac…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment is to find which way of processing information, auditory or visual, is the optimal way to remember and recall information. Methods/Materials I ga…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Medication adherence costs Americans around $289 billion a year. Patient nonadherence to prescribed medications is associated with poor therapeutic outcomes, progression of…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to measure motivation and actual energy to see which drives young children and young athletes to succeed during performance. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine whether people more proficiently recognize faces of their own race or those of others. Methods/Materials 40 subjects, 8 different…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The main purpose of the experiment was to explore the capability of males' and females' peripheral vision. This experiment was tested by two methods. In the first method, th…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The study investigates how high school students classify and evaluate personal cases of academic misconduct. The study also investigates how socioeconomic profile plays a ro…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if there is a difference in reaction time for people that play action video games versus those that do not play action video games. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to identify if high school students face test-taking anxiety and the best way to curb test-taking anxiety. Methods/Materials First, I identified…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science fair project was to find the most effective short-term motivator between punishment and reward. This is an important subject as motivation is used…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My goal was to identify specific trends in popular music over the last sixty years that music producers and songwriters could follow to help target their songs for greater p…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if the age of a person affects their ability to complete the Stroop Effect Tasks. Additionally, what factors can influence an ind…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my study was to determine if the use of positive motivators would strengthen and enhance the learning capabilities of children with Down Syndrome. Methods/M…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective was to compare the effectiveness of traditional methods and computer-based methods in the age group 11-14 and see which is more effective. Methods/Materials 30…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if a time gap between when information is learned and when the information needs to be recalled affects the human brain's ability to recall an…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My question was whether a college students knowledge of cybersecurity would be associated with their password strength. This question is particularly important as young adul…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Which gender, between eleven to thirteen year olds, will experience INMI (Involuntary Musical imagery) more, after listening to clips of three well known songs? Methods/Mate…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if signage encourages people to recycle more in order to help the environment. Methods/Materials To experiment on how people…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine how gender affects short-term memory recall of pictures, numbers, and words in 11-13 year olds. We predicted that girls would have a higher rec…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals Our experiment's objective is to determine interrupted sleep's effect on cognition. Common diseases like sleep apnea and generalized anxiety disorder interrupt sleep instead…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Determine the effect of all genres of music on the frontal and temporal lobes. Methods/Materials Headphones. Laptop computer with an iOS simulator. Students took the test on…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if background noise affects hearing. Methods/Materials 75 students, scripts, downloads of background noise (static, music with w…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I visited the Museum of Science in Boston and came across an experiment that focused on attention span. I was inspired by this exhibit to design a project to test visual dis…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to compare the extent and effect of school burnout on adolescents in high and low-income schools. Methods/Materials The study was conducted ut…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if a high school athlete's assumed race, using name as a proxy for race, would influence subjects' perceptions of his potential…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to examine whether awareness of incorrect posture, communicated through as reminders, will induce a postural improvement among humans of all ages. Hypotheses…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals In this experiment, we will compare growth vs. fixed mindset in Honor and CP level senior high school students and see if there is any effect of early class separation and g…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to test how different genders, ages, and grades reacted to being influenced to choose an incorrect answer. The hypothesis was that when in…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal is to find out what people fear by filling out surveys about fears, and based on those results, determine if fears change with age. Methods/Materials I made a quest…