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.
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to see if an individual#s real-life target shooting accuracy would increase after playing a combat video game. Methods/Materials Colt M4A1 Ai…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if witnesses to a crime can accurately describe what they saw while their attention has been diverted elsewhere. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if vehicle speed feedback signs are effective in reducing speeds. Methods/Materials A radar gun with pencil, paper, and clipbo…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project studies the distribution and differences in exhibition of inherence heuristic amongst different age groups: children, adolescents, and adults. Inherence heurist…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine which technique: deep breathing or exercise lowers stress related to taking tests and improves performance on tests. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to examine how different emotions influence memory; after some research, it became clear that joy and sadness would prove quite influential in assessing me…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to study how the amount of risk a person perceives in a situation affects their performance of a task in that situation. Methods/Materials A…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The first goal is to identify the more influential party in an athlete#s return to sport from an ACL injury.The second is to classify the specific knowledge a coach and fami…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to investigate whether performing a short amount of aerobic exercise would decrease the amount of false memories produced as result of increase…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine which form of grading: self, peer, or teacher, enhances students' retention most. Self-grading being that the student corrects hi…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to obtain a general idea of how people felt about their personal safety based on being attacked and terrorist attacks/shootings, and collecte…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To show that different genres of music will affect the boys' heart rate and blood pressures differently than the girls'. Methods/Materials Study materials include: headphone…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment is to determine whether a test subject given a placebo energy drink will have a similar rate of improvement (in running and reflex tests) to a…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to examine the association between academic exam stressors and executive functioning and negative eating behaviors. Methods/Materials Field E…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to compare the level of depression or symptoms of depression between nurses working nights and nurses working days, as measured by the PHQ-8 s…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our experiment was to find out which teaching method would be most useful in teaching a new skill. Methods/Materials Our method was to give each student a pre…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I did this project to see if left-brain and right-brain hemispheric activity could be recorded on an EEG to indicate sustained concentration and good mental discipline or im…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine the color preferences of children of various ages and genders and to compare the results with the stereotypes of girls preferring…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine which colored square could be seen at the lowest angle put of the volunteers side vision. I believe at the pink colored square would be seen at t…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to observe the effects of animal-assisted therapy on children with autism disorder. The hypothesis was that the real rabbit would have the most…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to see which distance between two cameras edits together to make the most preferred 3D video. Methods/Materials Thirty-six subjects were sho…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals People diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder ("ADHD") tend to be more hyperactive than those who do not have ADHD. Unfortunately, ADHD is often thought of…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To understand how distance affects parallax shift--specifically how far an object appears to leave your field of view as it is moved closer. The observer stands at a distanc…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to identify whether synesthesia is rare or is synesthesia more prevalent than we think? I believe that synesthesia is rare. My research stat…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective in the project was to discover whether students who kept gratitude journals over a 10 day period showed a more positive outlook on life and performed better in…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The bouba kiki effect is the psychological mapping of physical features with sounds. I chose this project after watching a dance performance and noticing how much the dancer…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to discover when and if children develop a gender bias towards different day to day occupations. Methods/Materials I needed to make 8 display…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of education on the attitude towards sunscreen. Exploring this topic is extremely important because wearing sunscreen an…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if birth order effects leadership. Methods/Materials First, have students fill out a survey that asks their name, gender, birth date, birth order,…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Most canned food in the U.S. contains the chemical BPA in the lining, and 95% of Americans have a detectable amount of BPA in their urine. I set out in this experiment to se…