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.
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Autism is a group of heterogeneous disorders defined by deficits in social interaction and communication. Even though autism has a significant genetic component, it is solely diagnosed throu…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project is concerned with an experimental study of how certain characteristics of fonts affect their ability to be read, specifically thickness and the inclusion of bra…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine the better format for standardized testing to ensure higher student performance. The P-values from the online test-takers wer…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to determine if light intensity affects people's perception of Fechner colors. I hypothesized that Fechner colors would change in different luminos…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to investigate the significance of the relationship between the use of modern information technologies and the exacerbation of procrastination among teenagers…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to see if there is a relationship between my mnemonic mobile application, Study Senses, and the improvement of memorization in educationall…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Previous literature has indicated that the goals that parents have for their children often become the goals the children have for themselves, and these goals influence certain character tra…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
I estimate the effect of marginal changes in the minimum wage on the science scores of 15-year-old Canadian students in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 test. B…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
According to Adams and Galinsky’s (2012) enclothed cognition effect, clothing can have a strong influence on an individual's performance. Particular articles of clothing, such as a doctor’s…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
A number of studies have shown that diversity programs are effective in reducing stereotypes. The purpose of this study was to determine the best age to implement these programs to educate p…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to investigate how distractions affect teen reaction times and awareness on the road. It was hypothesized that both calling and texting on cellular devices…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Every year there are 1.2 million high school dropouts in the United States. The most effective way to reduce this alarming data is to find the most effective form of motivat…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Differences between how females and males perceive social signals about feelings, intentions and motives of those around them and experience and display empathy for others i…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The field of clinical neuroimaging has extensive literature devoted to determining Autistic brain functional connectivity differences with resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Gender Bias and stereotyping in human interaction is not uncommon. Sometimes, it could be intentional and sometimes sub-conscious. For example, consider the following description of a man an…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to come up with a generic methodology to study bias in social media content. Specifically, the goal was to study the occurrence of gender stereotypes in la…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of Express without Stress device (EWS) on treating stuttering disorder. The study methodology contained three phases. First, a survey was design…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals I completed my project to determine whether people are excessively using electronic video games. My hypothesis was "If I survey members of different age groups (11 years old…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to explore the Pygmalion effect in the setting of education: in other words, whether or not the student performance expectations of school teachers for test…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals In this experiment, we will study the difference in the body image perception and self esteem between different ethnic groups and genders. We will also investigate the corre…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Academic integrity is the moral code or ethical policy of academia. In the past, studies have shown that it was the struggling student who was more likely to cheat. According to academic int…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
There is a need for people who are struggling with anxiety-related disorders as well as general stress to be able to improve the quality of life and overall health. The purpose of the experi…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In my project, gas price fluctuations were compared with average consumer purchase prices at two gas stations/convenience stores to identify if there was a significant correlation between th…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to find out whether gender plays a role in an individual's ability to recognize and identify facial expressions. Participants of two genders,…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals As people age, hand-eye coordination generally declines, and quality of life can suffer, as less coordination is associated with falls and other injuries. This project was d…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine how cell phone conversations affect one#s reaction time. I will be doing this by testing hands-on cell phone conversations, and…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Although virtual reality (VR) is most commonly associated with gaming, it is being used in many more capacities. In fact, VR technology is currently being used for education and training pur…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to find how occupational stress affects diet intake of women ages 19-50. Methods/Materials 4 occupations; 10 nurses,10 teachers,10 managers, a…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to examine the effect on an individual#s ability to identify an instrument when they were played samples with all three parts of a note:…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals We are experimenting whether the use of a water meter which displays water usage and a corresponding website to record and analyze the data will psychologically impact its u…