Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The goal of our project is to improve the posture of users by creating a device with a constant alerting system to phase out incorrect posture. We aim to refine our device, so tha…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The purpose of our project was to determine whether fear affects spatial perception. Specifically, we tested how greatly a person s fear may affect his/her estimate of a cockroach…
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
Music develops a connection to the listener that is unique to that person. The listener then develops their own definition of music that best suits their life. This factor can be especially…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
With the development of electronic devices, the blue light that is emitted from them allows for humans to be exposed to them. The exposure to blue light can be damaging during the nighttime,…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives My objective is to determine if, when a survey taker forms an interpretation of what a survey is testing, they will give different responses than they would if they did not think…
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
To test musicians’ multitasking ability compared to that of non-musicians, subjects were tested using a modified Six Elements Test. In this study, people who currently play one or more music…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The goal of our project was to determine how short term stress affects memory and performance in Middle and High School students, based on their heart rate. Methods 2 Pulse monito…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives People's worldviews, opinions, thoughts, characteristics, and feelings are often reflected in the way they write. By looking at which kinds of words increased/decreased in their f…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective of this study was to show that people put added value on something they construct themselves. Methods 3 test groups (10 people per group), instructions based on grou…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives 1. To create a lesson plan aligned with the California Health Education Content Standards that teaches high school students skin care and skin cancer prevention practices. 2. To i…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
While the Department of Education mandates how many hours of instruction a school must have within a year, they do not specify how those hours are distributed between subjects. Each school d…
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
The purpose of this project was to attempt to find a correlation between stress hormone levels and detected symptoms of stress in different personality types. We predicted that although peop…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives Linguistic Purism is a linguistic model that refers to rhetors who consciously purge words and grammar structures deemed unpure or foreign. In the English language, Linguistic Pur…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Second Award
Objectives This study examined if music would help junior high students memorize. It compared how singing information as opposed to speaking it affected how well the information could be lea…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
It is said that the Other Race Effect (ORE) might contribute to racial discrimination. Since the Face Inversion Effect (FIE) is related to configurational processing, investigating it helps…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The current study examined the detrimental impacts of chemotherapy on the neurophysiology and neurocognition of pediatric cancer survivors. Chemobrain is the classification of neurocognitive…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The public perception on meat labeling and their knowledge of USDA meat labels were reviewed through a survey. This project was designed to compare the difference between actual knowledge an…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The World Health Organization (WHO) finds that 110 million people die every year across the world as a direct result of STRESS. That is seven people in every 2 seconds. Thus, the…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives This experiment was performed to investigate whether the economic status of young adults affect a tendency to lie for personal gain, or for the benefits of others. A preliminary s…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives This science project is all about stuttering, a speech impediment in which sounds or words in speech are repeated unintentionally. As a stutterer myself, I wanted to raise awarene…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives This experiment is a two-part analysis of the existing gender gap in STEM careers. The extent to which a gender gap exists is studied, and two factors that may be contributing to…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives This experiment will test a person's ability to recall specific details during both expected and unexpected events. Methods Test subjects, two actors, script and props for actors,…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The purpose of this project is to find out if students perform better on written or online math tests. Methods I asked 40 volunteers, 20 boys and 20 girls, to participate in the e…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Broadly speaking, adolescence is a stage during human growth and development when the brain is not fully developed and matured. As a result, there are times of poor judgments that may result…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to use multi-sound waves to visually see the behavioral changes of a Pink-toe tarantula known as the Avicularia Avicularia. Sound is produced when something…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
There has been a great divide in perception of graffiti, from an artform to vandalism. However, as this binary begins to blur in present day, there is currently minimal analytical research f…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Although opposition to vaccines is as old as vaccines themselves, in recent years, the vaccine hesitancy movement (often referred to as the anti-vaccination movement) has caused a regression…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this project is to validate the impact of evidence-based instruction in increasing the phonological awareness skills for individuals with Dyslexia. The hypothesis of this proj…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives My project is about introverts and extroverts! I wanted to know if introverts or extroverts from different ages and genders were healthier. ? My hypothesis was that extroverts wer…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The objective of this study is to evaluate the associations between smartphone usage and the well-being and academic performance of high school students. The null hypothesis is th…