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 · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine how distractions while driving, including texting, cell phone use, and eating and drinking, increase the likelihood of both fatal and non-fatal…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals To determine certain amount of lights' role in melatonin production and a person's feeling of sleepiness and ability to focus in a classroom environment. If the amount of li…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective was to find out if talking on a phone impairs driving ability, and whether a hands-free-system improves driving performance as compared to using a hand-held ce…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to observe whether or not extended viewing of a 3D IMAX film causes any negative side effects. I chose to study levels of headache, eye stra…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I found the topic of distractions interesting as well as very current and relevant to today's society. Today's youth are grasping the technological wave by vigilantly checki…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The experiment that we conducted is different and more realistic than many others. Our experiment was an interactive scenario. It wasn#t a survey so the subjects were expose…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to evaluate which gender is more easily swayed by suggestion. Methods/Materials Male and female subjects were independently shown a video clip…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to find out whether or not multitasking is efficient; however, I also wanted to find out the effects of multitasking on the brain. Methods…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals All high school and college students study for exams. Some students, whether musically talented or not, study with ambience around them. Many use classical music as a pathwa…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To determine the reasons for noise-induced loss in teenagers, as well as determining junior high students' knowledge and practice of safe hearing behavior. If the reasons ar…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To see if human behavior and sociology of analysis and perception or variables such as age and ability to perceive of Chromatic Adaptation makes a difference in how people c…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to explore variables possibly affecting a person's ability to detect "Duchenne" and "non-Duchenne" smiles. In particular, the project examines…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I am determining which the brain would use more when confused by rearranged words, Phonics or Whole Word Language. I will determine if rearranging the letters in a word affe…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to discover if pictorial illustrations assist children in reading comprehension, and if so, which reading proficiency (below-proficient,…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my experiment is to determine if visual perceptual skills can be trained using the card game SET, and to compare taught skills to skills developed from one's own…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals According to People magazine over half a million teenage girls, who became pregnant in 2008, kept their babies. This study was created to examine the impact that being a tee…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to test Robert Plutchik's psychoevolutionary theory of emotion, particularly the pairs of opposite emotions he depicts on his Emotions Wheel.…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I love to curl up with a good book. These days, however, many people would rather curl up with their electronic reading devices. Since such devices are replacing books in ma…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to prove that the hindrance caused by the Cambridge Word Scramble integrated with the Stroop effect can be directly correlated to inefficiency while multit…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Do students remember what they read better when they take notes or draw a diagram? Methods/Materials I used two reams of copy paper and ten large envelopes. Results Experime…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine whether placing scents (citrus, rosemary, or sandalwood) in classrooms could improve student performance on mathematical (left-b…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Can memories be warped and changed by suggestion? If so, to what extent does gender play one's susceptibility to suggestion? And finally, are eye witness testimonies trustwo…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine whether singers or instrumental musicians would have a better sense of relative pitch - the ability to recognize distances…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This study examines the association of sleep patterns with psychological health in pre-dental and dental students. It is hypothesized that short sleep duration, high sleep d…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to see if smell affects taste. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained from 24 people. The people were blindfolded and nose plugs…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine the type of sound wave that is most differentiable to the human ear when layering multiple instances of that type of sound wave.…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our goal is to test if the students would focus more on the tests when they exercised. When someone exercises oxygen circulates through the brain, and oxygen is proven to in…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine which distractions have the most impact on drivers# ability to focus. Methods/Materials Ten subjects, ages 10 to 12 participated in…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if kids with parents and friends that curse and also watch movies or shows that have cursing in them, curse more than kids who do not. Methods/Ma…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The primary objective was to test whether people who use color artistically or practice a lot with color are able to overcome conflict between color and word. I tested this…