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 · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Caffeine is the world's most widely consumed psychoactive substance, with intake levels rising steadily among adolescents. However, the neurobiological consequences of excessive caffeine exp…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
This study investigated the effects of indoor CO2 concentration on cognitive performance across four domains —attention and inhibitory control (stroop test), spatial working memory (corsi ta…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In recent years, it is estimated that rates of stress, anxiety, and depression have increased by 25%. The increased prevalence of these conditions has been paralleled by an estimated 8% decl…
CSEF · 2026
Cognitive Science (Junior Division) Second Award
To evaluate advertising effectiveness, companies often rely on 3M’s Visual Attention Software (VAS). 3M VAS is a gaze prediction tool intended to provide advertisers with vital information,…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This research examined how social media use influences the social acceptance of adolescents aged 14 to 16. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to determine whether social media contribut…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Reading immersion (flow) significantly enhances enjoyment and satisfaction during novel reading, yet its neural mechanisms and relationship to event segmentation remain poorly understood. Ev…
CSEF · 2026
Cognitive Science (Junior Division) Honorable_mention Award
The purpose of my project was to better understand how context can shape people’s perceptions of other people, and to see if the role of context is different for different groups of people.…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division)
The McGurk effect demonstrates audiovisual integration in speech perception: when auditory and visual syllables conflict (e.g., auditory /ba/ paired with visual /ga/), listeners often report…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division)
This project investigates how social media use affects teen sleep, focus, mood, and academic performance. The question researched in this project is "How does using social media affect kids…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Benchmarks often fail to capture true large language model (LLM) trustworthiness, as models behave differently under evaluation than in real-world deployment. This research introduces a syst…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mental health affects all aspects of life, it's a significant factor that if overlooked could cost lives and mission success particularly in space exploration. Mental health is a critical fa…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study examined the lack of access to Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS) for People with Disabilities (PWDs) in Sao Paulo’s Paraisopolis favela. It aimed to map and characterize PWD re…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The rise in cases of depression, anxiety, and other emotional disorders has led to an alarming increase in deaths from self-inflicted causes, especially among adults under work, academic, an…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division)
Working memory is what allows us to manipulate the information stored in our short-term memory. In this project, we wanted to learn more about how working memory ability changes over differe…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The United States is linguistically diverse. Approximately 23% of individuals in the United States speak a language other than English at home. Of those same individuals, 61% speak Spanish.…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
As people age, their sleep quantity and quality decline, and insomnia becomes more prevalent, particularly in individuals aged 60 and older. The mechanisms underlying age-related insomnia ar…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
This study investigates musical emotion identification using non-auditory senses alone. Guided by the valence-arousal model of emotion and multimodal integration theory, we designed a system…
CSEF · 2026
Cognitive Science (Junior Division)
The purpose of this project is to find out if music is the best way for anyone trying to get into cycling, or in any kind of athletic activity, to improve their performance. My scientific qu…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Stroke is a critical global health issue, and many cases are preventable if risk factors are identified early. Current risk assessment approaches often separate behavioral and neurophysiolog…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
Stroke is a critical global health issue, and many cases are preventable if risk factors are identified early. Current risk assessment approaches often separate behavioral and neurophysiolog…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division) First Award
Current diagnostic methods can only detect neurodegenerative conditions after symptoms emerge, when significant neurological damage has already occurred. This project investigates early sign…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
One in every 20 people with epilepsy has photosensitive reflex epilepsy —2.5 million individuals for whom a flashing screen (3-60 Hz) can trigger a seizure within seconds, forcing them to li…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project investigated which type of prompt would generate the most educationally effective response from Gemini as perceived by ninth grade students. Three ninth grade classes completed…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division)
The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether stretching before running affects a person’s speed. The scientific question asked was: Does stretching before running affect someone’s…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
This project developed an on-device application for Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) using self-supervised transformer models. The hypothesis stated that audEERING’s wav2vec2-based, dimensio…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Navigation inflexibility is a symptom observed in approximately 50% of early Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, why and how this disorder occurs has remained unclear. Computational modeling…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study analyzes the contributions of an instructional material that implements computational thinking (CT) to teach introductory programming concepts to 2nd- and 3rd-grade elementary sch…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division) Fourth Award
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder affecting nearly 12 million people worldwide, causing >329,000 deaths annually, with up to 80% of cases strongly influenced b…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Sustained attention span is declining among adolescents, linked to weakened memory and reading comprehension, a significant barrier to academic/social success. This study tested and develope…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division)
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if the amount of screen time affects your mood and self-reported stress level. 15 subjects were tested, six male and nine female, all within t…