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 · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The American ear will find the British accent more appealing because of the amount of representation it has in American media. The French accent will be the least liked accent bec…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of the APS device when treating auditory hypersensitive autistic children aged 3 – 8 years old. The study’s methodology consisted of four phases…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mood and anxiety disorders, such as Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), affect one out of every six people in their lifetime and over 350 million people per year. Postmortem human brain studies…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Every year, over 600,000 people suffer from stroke and spinal cord injuries in the U.S. alone, and about 80% of acute stroke survivors lose motor skills of the arm and the hand. It may consi…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The present project makes a demonstrative exercise regarding the true history of one of the most deeply rooted dishes in the culinary culture of Peru, the “Tamal Chinchano” (Tamale from Chin…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine what is the most effective way to improve reaction time. It assesses how experience playing video games, an instrument, or a comp…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
At present, there are no well-validated biomarkers for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Currently, the diagnosis of such disorders is done by experts who employ standard ques…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Epilepsy affects over 3.4 million people in the United States alone. Approximately 200,000 new cases of epilepsy are diagnosed each year. The purpose of this project was to detect seizures a…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to measure the difference of degrees between head/upper back posture to texting posture in 11-14 year old students and comparing both males/fe…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Social insects possess the remarkable ability to make choices both as individuals and as part of a collective. Ants, particularly, are able to utilize large colony numbers in order to effect…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the impact of high-heeled footwear on balance and fall risk as well as to conduct a survey to ascertain whether people believe high heels make…
AJAS · 2018
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
As the rate of overdose deaths involving opioids has increased by 200% since the year 2000, the United States is currently faced with an alarming crisis. Despite knowledge of this growing pr…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Surveys are an important part of behavioral research and design iteration. Current surveys are typically made up of closed ended questions(i.e. multiple choice questions), which have little…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
I wanted to understand the factors that influence how effectively a group works together. The main question in this study was about how the gender composition of a group affects how well a g…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study investigates if people are more satisfied with a decision after they get advice from a surrogate or by using affective forecasting. Participants 14-18 years old were given a piece…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Diabetes is one of the main public health problems due to the high number of incidents and mortality in all the world. According to the International Diabetes Federation in 2017 there were 4…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Through our volunteer work in the blind school in our region, we have experienced the suffering and the intensity of their need for help by a device that facilitates their lives and integrat…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals This experimental study examines whether branding (in this case, Google) influences people's consumer choices and satisfaction with products (in this case, styli). I used a…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
One of the most common Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) type is the congenital autism with low intelligence and limited speech (accounting for 68% of all cases). This ASD type has negative eff…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to discover if caffeine or sugar had an effect on a student's ability to focus, and if so, what this effect was. This would help students develop better st…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In the wake of the 2016 Presidential Election, Social Media giants such as Facebook and Twitter have implemented a variety of changes to their respective sites' user interfaces, in an effort…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to determine whether in-product social media features can effectively reduce the spread of "fake news," or deliberately misleading information, o…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This research consisted in the analysis of information provided by 185 police reports on missing teenagers registered in the Police Districts of Jardim Herculano, Capão Redondo and Parque Sa…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Endoplasmic reticulum calcium dysregulation caused by mutations in the presenilin has been implicated in neuronal death and in Familial Alzheimer’s Disease (FAD) pathology. The purpose of th…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of our experiment was to compare the differences of reaction and decision making times between teenagers ages 14, 16, and 18 years old. Our hypothesis was that the 14 year olds w…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Spatial abilities are thought to be pronounced in some scholastically-classified slow learners. In scholastically-classified slow learners with high spatial abilities, concepts can be taught…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my study was to determine which grade level and which gender had the most gender bias. I tested 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th graders at my school along with adult…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Over the last three years, I have developed a new diagnostic screening test for dyslexia. My test is based on research that suggests dyslexia is an auditory processing disorder rather than s…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project was to determine if there is discrimination against women pursuing STEM careers and a stereotype of men being more competent in STEM fields that is preventing y…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine which text color has the greatest positive impact on comprehension. I hypothesized that red will have the most considerable impa…