Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal was to learn if students know the actual amount of sugar that is in beverages. Methods/Materials Materials: 6 different types of drinks: 20 FL OZ Gatorade, 20 FL OZ…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to find out whether or not the internet is having an effect on todays youth regarding suicide and self harm rates. Methods/Materials We gave out 249 survey…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to see how news affects social media.My results showed that sports had the most tweets per article on average. They also showed that sports had a…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my investigation was to determine if the colors of soda affects the way we perceive its taste. The project I did was a three part test. Those three parts we…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals With increasing demand for organic food, we sought to determine if human senses are capable of distinguishing organic from nonorganic food. Based on background research, we…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project attempted to find a thorough and efficient method for teaching writing. Methods/Materials To perform this experiment, 572 middle school students (22 classrooms)…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The quantitative objective for this project is attempting to determine whether non-blind individuals with no previous training on echolocation can echolocate successfully, a…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Parent provided "Children at Play" signs and other unofficial street signs are being used in many neighborhoods and streets throughout the world. Although these signs are su…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This is an experiment designed to investigate the effect of color in relation to recognition of selected scents, based off of the Stroop Effect (Stroop, J.R,) 1935, and dete…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I have always had a memory problem. During a conversation I am not always able to remember certain words. So I began to wonder, what can I do to help me remember theses word…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment is designed to investigate the effects of a digitally based learning environment and a traditional based learning environment on reading interpretation using…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine how different forms of distraction effect Child memorization I will be using music and cartoons as a distraction Methods/Materials 1. Show child a computer file…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This is an experiment designed to investigate the effects of distance learning via a two-way telecommunication service and traditional classroom learning, demonstrated throu…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals For centuries, researchers have been trying to find the factors of humor. Many of those studies, however, look at what in the jokes themselves strikes a nerve, such as incon…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the experiment was to determine if there was a difference in reading comprehension from a book to a tablet. I hypothesized that the subjects would have better…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Arousal-biased competition theory states that emotional arousal has an enhancing effect on memory for high priority information. However, there is a lack of understanding on…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose was to determine whether there was a correlation between academic success and happiness levels among high school students who are fixed minded (i.e. they believe…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see the effect of stress on a persons ability to multi-task. I hypothesized that the test subjects performance level would be impaired by about 25%. Meth…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine if students retained and recalled more information if they were taught with Higher-Order (Critical Thinking) versus Rote Me…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if one's time perception is altered based on the activity one is performing. I believe that someone involved in an activity will feel that less time…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I've always listened to music when completing schoolwork, so I wanted to know: How does music actually affect my ability to work? This project, 'To Music, or Not To Music' l…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My purpose of doing this project was to find out how teenagers are responding to the drug caffeine while being immersed in the world of technology and how that affects their…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our science project investigates the effects of video games on athletic ability, specifically hand-eye coordination. We don't predict that video games have an impact on natu…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine which physical feature of computer generated characters in animated movies has the greatest negative effect on responses to the Uncanny Valley.…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our experiment is to see whether the eye color affects a persons ability to see different colors through dark light. We believe a darker eye color will see be…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I decided to do my project because my father and I always enjoy watching people pick up coins. I have always been intrigued by psychology. One day, my dad and I were bored w…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine when the brain stops confusing the character(words) with the color. Methods/Materials I took the original stroop effect and began to distort the words into vary…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Fonts are described in terms of their aesthetic qualities such as face style, size, and color. The objective of this investigation is to evaluate the relationship between fo…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project is a second-year study, in which I worked on developing and studying an algorithm to model successful learning from an inconsistent source. It has been reported…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine why people go over the speed limit in their cars. I expected that men would drive faster than women, and that drivers with kids in their car woul…