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
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Previous research regarding the relationship between motivation and performance has found that extrinsic motivation (incentives supplied by sources external from oneself, su…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project aimed to determine if exposure to blue light through screen time had any impact on the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep or the mood of a human sleeper. Methods/Ma…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Discovering children psychological issues has been hindered by the lack of children ability to express their feelings and needs using words, in addition to the shortage of an efficient and s…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine the effect of education and exposure on stress levels, as measured by blood pressure. Methods/Materials One sphygmomanometer, two…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if the method of loci, a visual-spatial oriented mnemonic device, has an impact on long-term memory. The hypothesis was that the…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Discover and observe the impact of various frequencies upon the human memory capacity and effects upon concentration, cognition, and focus. Methods/Materials Materials: 7 Vo…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Stress, from chronic mild to acute severe conditions, has extreme negative consequences. The purpose of this study is to explore the psychosomatic and pathological consequences of stress on…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals My objective for this experiment was to examine whether or not organized imagery can help reduce or prevent a panic attack. Methods/Materials 12 organized pictures,12 disorg…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My hypothesis is that people who listen to music that evoked happy, love, and peaceful emotions would be champions (ENFP), people who listen to sad music would be healers (I…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a neuropsychiatric disorder highly prevalent, characterized by intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors that are difficult to control despite preser…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine whether people are excessively using social media. I hypothesized that teenagers would excessively use social media more than you…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder causes the patient to struggle to focus and have a low attention span. The drugs that are the primary treatment, are highly addictiv…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Because most government regulation is based on arguments about “externalities” (effects on third parties), understanding how externality arguments affect public opinion and support for regul…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
A novel diagnostic tool was developed that identified and digitized facial changes that differentiate Essential Tremor (ET) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients with 99.9% accuracy as compa…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This goal of this project was to investigate how different regions of the face are important for depicting facial expressions. My investigative question was: Which facial ar…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to evaluate if speech-disabled children can identify positive traits in themselves and improve coping strategies with bullying. Methods/Materi…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine the best way to educate people about environmental issues so that they will want to participate in environmental activism. Meth…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to understand the factors that influence how effective a group is in performing a task. The main question in this study was about how the gen…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Anxiety is the most common mental illness, and adolescence is a critical time period for developing various anxiety disorders. Social media platforms allow people to generate content to conn…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals Basic color terms can be defined as words representing a wide set of hues, like "red" or "blue". Color terms differ from language to language. The goal of this project was t…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The Harmony project aims at understanding the effect of applying mathematical rules in the design of everyday objects on their aesthetical perception. In the past, mathematical canons were u…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine how phones affect humans reaction time and how phones alter humans awareness to their surroundings. Methods/Materials 10 people,…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to discover how different types of stimulants affect the ability to perceive time. We hypothesized that sound would affect subjects estimations of…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our question is: How does false assurance affect test taking performance? We wanted to find out if when a student was told they did poorly on a test they would alter their a…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out how pets affected humans stress levels. Methods/Materials Blood pressure cuff, timer, volunteers, and a pet your volunteers like. Results The gr…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if six hours of sleep a night for a week made a difference in memory compared to sleeping for eight hours a night for a week. Me…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals In the US, space heating, cooling, and air conditioning account for 39% of energy usage in homes. The goal of this project is to find a way to reduce the amount of energy ne…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to explore the potential relationships between illegal immigrant population percentage and the seven types of crime rates collected by the FBI…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Visual impairment is a major global health problem. In 2017, WHO estimated that there were 253 million people worldwide with this ailment. According to the journal of the American Medical As…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) results in deterioration of dopaminergic cells in the brain. The Amygdala and Orbitofrontal Cortex (OFC), areas associated with facial expresion recognition, suffer…