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.
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Subliminals are stimuli that fall short of the average threshold of the brain’s auditory and visual cortex which have been speculated to establish correlations in the mind that affect one’s…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Ergonomics is the study of creating a work environment that is appropriate to a user's specific needs so that their productivity is increased and the risk of injury is reduced. Most projects…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
The goal of this experiment was to determine the effect of the Intermediate Metabolic Switching (IMS) diet on the short and long-term memory of mutant Drosophila due to neuroplasticity. Ther…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Classical music is known to have a calming effect on people and has been used to study the effect of test taking abilities. By testing students’ speeds while taking standardized tests it was…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The EPA defines environmental justice as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, i…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Drone technology has become a trailblazing feat in the scientific community and research is beginning to branch into the possibility of implementing drones into emergency response situations…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs) are organizations provided for high school students that aim to improve high school students’ knowledge of career clusters, contextual inst…
CSEF · 2023
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
Stress affects a person’s health in numerous ways such as headaches, sleep issues, or even illnesses. C₈H₁₁NO₂, or dopamine, a feel good chemical produced by our body is critical for functio…
CSEF · 2023
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
As scholars debate the persuasive effect of humor, multiple theories have emerged on its impact with the audience and its ability to fuel progressive social change. While multiple experiment…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Students' academic achievement could be affected by the disorganization of their study habits and chronotypes. This study aimed at designing a valid and reliable scale to help students to id…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
For decades, the representation of females in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) has remained low compared to males. Possible factors include gender discrimination, lack of ro…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emotion regulation is the way individuals manage, experience, and exhibit their emotions. This novel study investigated how emotion regulation strategies were used during the COVID-19 pandem…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In 2020, cryptocurrencies experienced significant growth due to increasing interest rates and a declining US dollar value. This resulted in a rapid proliferation in the price of Bitcoin and…
CSEF · 2023
Cognitive Science Second Award
Alzheimer's is the most widespread type of dementia with over 10 million new cases diagnosed yearly. Despite such impact, 20% of very mild, mild, and moderate Alzheimer’s cases are misclassi…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
High school athletes account for approximately two million injuries each year, suggesting that training loads are too intense. Finding an optimal method to monitor fatigue accurately, afford…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Students who exhibit more helpless behaviors will almost always perform worse in school. Schools may be inadvertently teaching these students more helpless behaviors through current methods.…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Motivating people to take science-backed public health measures is critical. I studied whether messages encouraging people to protect others are more effective than messages encouraging peop…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The effectiveness of classroom instruction is often compromised by a misunderstanding of student perception of instruction between students and educators. The purpose of this research was to…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
An alternate movement strategy, called Move in the Tube (MINT), has been implemented in many hospitals for patients recovering from thoracic surgery but little objective data is available to…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Girls' beliefs about math and formation of math identity begin long before college, yet almost all studies examining stereotypes about girls in math and the impact on math identity therein h…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
As coined by historian James Truslow Adams in 1931, the American Dream is the belief that any American can achieve their desired successes. What has upheld this distorted understanding of so…
AJAS · 2022
Behavioral Science
The interplay between three critical aspects --- biology of the virus, human behavior, and government policies --- significantly determines the spread and impact of any given epidemic. With…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Since 2020, our world has been full of low communication and no sight of physical smiles. Because of this, I wanted to see if people, after the pandemic is starting to slow down, if they wer…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mississippi is considered to be one of the unhealthiest states in the nation. This health burden and disparity has been found to be associated with food insecurity, the disruption of food in…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
The Animated Legends project was created with the aim of recording and disseminating the legends of Igarapé-Miri, a municipality located in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon region. The idea aros…
AJAS · 2022
Behavioral Science
This project identifies an efficient method to reduce stress and anxiety by activating certain parts of the nervous system using a vibrating, wearable device.
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
The inflexibility of fixed-dosage drugs hinders the way to a safer and personalized approach to mediate withdrawal symptoms, especially with medications having high dependency rates. This re…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
As bipolar I disorder (BD-I) is characterized by manic, mixed, and depressive episodes, polypharmacy—combining 2 or more medications simultaneously—is common for BD-I psychiatric treatment t…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Our research seeks to apply the concepts from Hofstede's Cultural Matrix to better understand vaccine skepticism and Anti-Vax behavior. So far, the research has focused on identifying cultur…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) affects over ten million people in the U.S. yet less than 4% of people diagnosed were prescribed a medication approved by the FDA. In fact, the few medications app…