Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Objective: The Objective is to determine whether gender plays a role in a humans multitasking ability. Methods/Materials Materials & Methods: Consent Forms were collected fr…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to find how the students at VPHS can learn information the best: in a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic way of learning. Methods/Materials…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals How does suggestive imagery affect food choices? I believe that suggestive imagery, when presented to a person can cause them to chose a specific food. Methods/Materials The…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This year my family was involved in an automobile accident. The purpose of my project was to show if flashing brake lights were added to cars, would this decrease the number…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals Many children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) struggle with social, communication and behavioral issues. One of the most common, stereotypy (repetitive motions), can cr…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine at what age a child can draw the human body with the fullest amount of body parts. Methods/Materials In this project I tested 45 subjects. Ther…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to examine the effect of different types of fonts on a person#s memory. The results of my experiment can help students who need help with stud…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine if the convenience of recycling effects the degree to which students recycle, even at a Green School where students have previously…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine if a testing style, in this case verbal versus written, shows a better result in scores for math, spelling, history, and/or sci…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to answer the question: can you predict whether a person is lying or not, based on how fast she answers 10 questions while performing a simp…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if the marketing color would promote healthier eating. Methods/Materials I tested six, first grade classes by giving each clas…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This study investigated differences in mood, fatigue, sleep, and mental health measures among middle-aged and older adults who participated in community-based classes - eith…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science fair project was to see if distractions\multi-tasking altered the time it took at seventh grader to take a test. This topic interested me because n…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective of my Science Fair Project is to warn the population about brain cancer and cell phones. My dad passed away from brain cancer and I want to share my family's st…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if the use of a Slant Board and Blocking Methods improve reading fluency in students. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained from a vo…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if music has an effect on the loss of equilibrium and can cause dizziness. If so what music will cause the largest loss of equilibrium and make y…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project is based on genders, boys and girls. The main idea of this project is understanding more about how body works and the difference between girls and boys in learn…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if the use of a placebo energy chew would impact the free throw performance of an average sixth grader. Methods/Materials Parent participation…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In this study, I examined whether and how demographic profiling and personality are expressed in Virtual Worlds (VWs). The purpose of the study was to determine the accuracy…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals In today's world, there is a conception that foreign students are more intelligent than American students. The purpose of this project is to evaluate whether or not secondar…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine if talking on a cell phone created enough distraction to lower your concentration level. Methods/Materials Materials consisted o…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to see if students test scores could be improved by incorporating lessons from core subjects such as math and language arts in Physical Exercise (P…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goals of this project are to identify: the facial feature (eye, eyebrow, nose, lips and chin) which is most prevalent in facial identification, differences between recog…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine which types (categories) of images, excluding those of personal significance, people remembered and the impact of real-life di…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to identify any difference in reaction time while talking on the phone hands-on and hands-free. Methods/Materials We received consent from 1…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if elementary, junior high, or high school students could complete a Stroop Effect test with the fewest errors and with the quickest time. Method…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of our experiment was to see if the perception and/or experience of economic mobility affected whether research subjects would want the highest income earners…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to single out the main reason why people are less tolerant of bilingual people with foreign accents. When this reason is found, people will be mo…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to examine binge sleeping # the practice of sleeping shorter durations on week nights and longer durations on weekends, in pre-dental and dental students. I…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals As technology flourishes, the production of copious amounts of multidimensional data has revealed limitations in visual forms of data representation. Due to these limitation…