Behavioral & Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives The purpose of this project is to determine whether or not parental limits affect middle school students smartphone addiction. My hypothesis is that the more limits parents give,…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The objective of my project was to determine if stimulating the right brain improved reading speed and comprehension, for Dyslexic and non-Dyslexic students. Methods The experimen…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In light of the increasing growth of depression, anxiety and behavioral disorders among children between (6-11) years old, which demonstrate the importance of understanding children psycholo…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this project was to determine if English-Spanish bilinguals have more Stroop Interference than English monolinguals. This is important because little research has been done on…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study revealed the influence of an instructor on students’ ideology and perception of valid information. It was hypothesized that if students were presented with an economic theory by a…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives Our project was inspired by the idea of the bouba/kiki effect, a non-arbitrary mapping between speech sounds and the visual shape of objects. The purpose of this project was to de…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives This experiment was designed to see if modifications to text would help to increase the reading fluency levels of students with dyslexia or identified reading disabilities. The sp…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives School environments are noticed to be stressful. We recalled times we became distracted by the stress given by teachers rather than paying attention to the lesson. We began to won…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Every year, over 600,000 people suffer from neurological injuries in the U.S. alone, and about 80% of acute stroke survivors lose motor skills of the upper limb. Research shows that methodic…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives Our nation s report card for reading is at an all-time low. This is due to the failed ways to improve students reading levels. These methods do not push the students enough and th…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Concussions are a brain injury caused by an outside blow to the head or rapid movement of the brain inside of the skull. Over 3.8 million high school athletes are affected by these injuries…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
First Award
Objectives The purpose of this project is to investigate how income, population, grade and school history impact the performance of a project at the California State Science and Engineering…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emotion inference is the ability to infer how another individual is feeling and is crucial to social interaction and well-being. The predominant form of investigation involves unimodal, simp…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
First Award
Objectives In 2017, 4,832 race-bias hate crimes occurred in the U.S. (FBI, 2017). Previous research showed that high schoolers receiving character education became more accepting as adults.…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Purpose Obesity is a significant health concern for children in the United States. One way to combat obesity is to start the education and practice of eating healthy at a younger age. This s…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives How do people behave differently when they are being watched or not? The purpose of this project is to see whether people's behaviors change when they're being watched or not. Met…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Purpose: 1. To identify the psychological or behavioral impacts that co-sleeping has on the child. 2. To determine if co-sleeping affects the parental relationship. 3. Identify the understan…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives I wanted to learn if doing a headstand improves your memory and my hypothesis was, If doing headstands improves our memory, then people who do headstands will do better on a memor…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The suffering of the Palestinian people from the Israeli occupation and this kind of suffering is the child Yusuf, who was shot in the eye, so we designed glasses to help the blind to carry…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives For my science fair project, I tested students in grades K-5 to identify if they had any indication of colorblindness. In my experiment, I individually tested 40 students with a s…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In 2017, a study reported that 8.3 million American adults regularly experience harmful or negative mindsets (Thompson, 2017). You may know someone that is one of them. You may be one of the…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This investigation is being carried out to study the Peruvian ideological movement that defends the political, social and cultural identity of the natives during the 20th century. It is aime…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives Opinions about social movements may stem from demographic factors such as race, gender, etc. My hypothesis is that demographic factors will correlate with opinions on social movem…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Purpose of the Experiment: What can our brain process without us being conscious about? The current study focuses on one aspect of this question - what are the relations between integration…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
The prevalence of mood disorders has increased rapidly over the past decade, especially in teens. The nature of these disorders is such that most symptoms are in a person’s mind making it ha…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives In this study, I wanted to determine the effect of intense video gaming on school-aged students, by understanding the impact of the popular game, Fortnite, on students' academic p…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The purpose of this experiment was to try and distinguish whether or not Lactobacillus rhamnosus could make for a solution for average people who feel the need for anxiety relief,…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives I compared older and newer horror movies, seeking to ascertain whether newer movies led to greater changes in vital signs. Methods Movie clips viewed were derived from the 1960s,…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The main objective of the project is to identify if students are more impressionable into choosing an image with more number of likes than teachers. I predicted that if students a…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective of this project was to determine if a person's age affected the amount of time they experienced the Motion-After Effect. The hypothesis is that the oldest age group…