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
More than six million crashes were reported by the police in 2015. Almost thirty percent of the accidents in the U.S. are rear end collisions. Collisions from the rear are not only dangerous…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Current research indicates rates of depression and anxiety among adolescents, youth ages 13-19, have increased by 70 percent in the past 25 years. Adolescents are repeatedly…
AJAS · 2017
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
Abstract The purpose of this research project is to determine if the Zeigarnik Effect can have any significant effect on the educational performance of children. I hypothesized that, if I co…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of the project was to determine whether there is a link between the Visual Motor abilities of learners at pre-school and school performance later at high school, specifically in…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The object of this experiment is to determine whether a subject's memory of an event can be altered by framing questions given after the event has occurred. The specific goa…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Decision-making is affected by many factors, including the level of morality in decision making. Recently, a relationship between unethical decisions and time-of-day (TOD) was demonstrated.…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to discover whether or not age and gender affects middle schoolers moral decisions. Methods/Materials Google survey, notebook, stopwatch or…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Basically, “The Moral Sentence” is a survey where tests subject compared two people with varying descriptions of their wealth and moral behavior. From that, the test subjects had to decide w…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to find out which color makes a visual search the easiest and most difficult for each gender. Methods/Materials 11 sheets of computer paper,…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
In response to the rise in hate crimes against Sikh Americans due to a lack of knowledge about the Sikh Faith, I decided to conduct the Turban Myths experiment: a project designed to evaluat…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if the impact of praise and criticism on performance change with age, specifically on adults and sixth graders. Methods/Material…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
There has been a lot of controversy over whether vaccines are safe or cause cognitive disorders like autism. We spend lots of money and time on developing vaccines to fight contagious pathog…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to measure and analyze how running unshod affects a runner's speed and strike style compared to running shod. Methods/Materials Volunteers ra…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Race relations have always been a difficult and sometimes painful topic to discuss in America. In the recent presidential elections, racial biases and attitudes seemed to be…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to find out if violent cartoons affect the way people think. Methods/Materials The subjects were shown either a violent cartoon or nonviolent…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my science experiment was to raise awareness and increase understanding of a very common learning disorder called dyslexia by simulating what reading with d…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Numbers are a universal, easily-measured concept taught to children by parents/caregivers. The goal is to understand the effect of different number representations in childr…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project aims to develop a reliable method to indirectly measure racial bias through use of a virtual environment. Administered with a computer, the virtual environment guides participan…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objectives of this experiment are to explore the effect of ethnicity and gender on personality, find the approximate personality ratio between traits in society, and tes…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals If someone played video games for thirty minutes everyday for thirty days, could it improve short-term memory? What category of memory scores would improve or decline if the…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if males or females could process visual information more accurately and at a faster rate. Previous research done on this subj…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals Climate change is one of the biggest challenges my generation will face. The purpose of my project was to find what factors influence junior high students' opinions on clima…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine whether or not white noise has a negative impact on memory. Methods/Materials A noise emitting device, approximately 50 students,…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose for this experiment was to determine if providing more information to a subject about a imaginary character that committed a crime will cause that subject to respond more compass…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goals of this research were to determine the effect of gender on the efficacy of group based cognitive tasks, and to identify the potential existence of an age bias cond…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if online learning or traditional learning was more effective. Methods/Materials A videogame made with RPG Maker, a powerpoint software, a clas…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to gain better insight on how the changes in cultural settings directly influence changes in social values. Methods/Materials In this pro…
ISEF · 2016
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The bottom part of the nutrient medium-filled test tube where Drosophila melanogaster larvae are kept doesn’t become moldy, while its upper part where adult flies are dwelling becomes moldy.…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals When you apply for a job, you probably had to turn a paper or email resume. But when I grow up and apply for a job, employers will probably google me or look me up on social…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose behind this experiment was twofold. The first objective was to determine whether reading print inverted text was a universal trait. Secondly, if so, is this trai…