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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,
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Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment aims to determine if asynchrony in a speech video will cause a significant difference upon a viewer#s opinion of the main speaker, which will be determined b…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal was to determine whether or not exam results were affected by: a) different genres of music playing and/or b) different learning styles. Methods/Materials For my exp…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our project is to determine how music affects reaction time. We also attempted to determine what type of music would have the best affect on reaction time. Th…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment is an investigation into the effect of Twitter# use in an educational setting on introverted and extroverted student#s engagement in class discussion, as mea…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals We aimed to determine the effects of age, gender, and the plastic bag ban (with 10 cent fee per paper bag) on consumer bag choice at Santa Monica grocery stores by comparing…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment is an investigation into the effect of ink type on reading comprehension through the comparison of scores on reading comprehension tests. Methods/Materials P…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To discover how different types of video games affect the human brain. Methods/Materials Eight human volunteers were recruited for the experiment, and a quiet environment wa…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I researched the effects of a placebo on subjects aged 5-12 on vision enhancement to see if it would improve their vision or affect the psychologically. Methods/Materials I…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Human subjects will show physical and mental signs of caffeine use regardless of the caffeine content of their beverages. They should feel "better" emotionally and physicall…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals With an ever-growing military, in which numerous causalities are reported annually, I set out to create an exceptionally more effective and cost-efficient camouflage by util…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To determine which of three memory techniques, the loci method, rote memorization, and picture flash cards, is the most effective; and to determine if longer words are harde…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objectives goals were to find a less time consuming more effective way of training dogs other than verbal commands that will benefit dog owners all over. Methods/Material…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this work is to identify the true authorship of student writings using an authorial invariant, a metric based on word and punctuation usage. This project ex…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the project was to determine if college students display gender stereotypes towards professors. Methods/Materials Three hundred forty-three college students c…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn which sense is more dominant: taste or smell. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained from 20 people: ten of each gender. I had all test su…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if the type of praise a student receives can alter a student's mindset and therefore influence their performance on an IQ te…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to find the fastest human interface device among a computer mouse, a computer keyboard, a microphone for speech, and a multi-touch touch screen used when i…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine what a child sees first, a word or a shape and if age affects this. Methods/Materials Consent forms were gathered from 51 children. Six flash ca…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of the study is to determine the extent to which each succeeding generation since World War II is aware of the sacrifices of the "Greatest Generation." Methods…