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 · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (2013), more than 10,000 people die each year in alcohol-impaired and drowsy driving crashes. To prevent such…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to see if people could learn by playing a video game. Methods/Materials I created a video game using RPG Maker 2003. In this game, I had informatio…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To find out if adults with different levels of education could pass an 8th grade science quiz with a score of 70% or better. Methods/Materials I used a basic 8th grade scien…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine if spatial cognition is affected by playing chess, gender, and grade level. Methods/Materials In my experiment, I used an o…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if there were trends in how people, based on race and ethnicity, associated certain colors with positive and/or negative words. Me…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to compare the extent to which various factors affected the crime rates in communities throughout the country, using the K-Means clusterin…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to see if scrambling the letters of the words in the tests would affect the speed and accuracy of the subjects scores on the Stroop Effect test. T…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals Movies have progressed dramatically over the years, but no one has produced inexpensive 3-dimensional sound. I love film and the process of post-production sound. The purpos…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This experiment was to test different concentrations of termiticides to effectively prevent termite infestation in the home, and to see if the average homeowner could make a cheap efficient…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine Ventura High School students# sexual activity, condom use and interest in getting an HIV test at school. This information will…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal was to determine if people with facial features that are consistent with the Golden Ratio (phi=1.618) are regarded as more beautiful than people whose facial featur…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine whether or not people regularly find celebrity faces with proportions closest to the Golden Ratio to be most attractive. I believe that if I cal…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine which two minute task, sitting in silence, listening to music, and playing 'Temple Run', 6th graders thought went by the quic…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The idea for our conformity experiment sparked one day at school when we began to notice that during a class vote, many people changed their vote to fit the majority. We won…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Eating disorders are a growing problem among teenagers and could possibly have a significant impact on their health. I became interested in this project because I constantly…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I did this project to see if left-brain and right-brain hemisphere activity could be recorded on an EEG to indicate (left brain) mental imagery/preparation and transition to…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose was to investigate correlations between presence, immersion, perceptual modality, stress and kinetosis in vision-dominated virtual reality (VR) compared to limit…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Since 2006 the over winter loss of managed honeybee colonies has peaked over 30%, double the acceptable limit. Continued high losses threaten worldwide food security. Over winter bees do not…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if memory performance is affected by inaudible sounds with different frequencies. One study found that high frequency sounds audible to non-human a…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals As technology advances as the years pass by, schools have gradually implemented increasing use of technology in the curriculum. Administrators believe the incorporation of t…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The freshwater organism, Hydra littoralis, has served as an effective model for biochemical, behavioral, reproductive, and environmental studies. When well-fed, hydra reproduce asexually by…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to understand the level of motivation to cheat in students when offered extra credit and to determine whether extra credit is the ideal for…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine if, and if so, how strongly, facial appearance can affect the outcome of political elections. Methods/Materials Official portrait…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to see whether a person is more prone to take a risk in a foreign language or a native language. Methods/Materials The materials used consi…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mycoplasma bovis is a devastating disease in the cattle industry resulting in an estimated loss of $140 million in 2011. This causes mastitis, pneumonia, poly-arthritis, and otitis media in…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if the color of a drink would affect the way a person will think something tastes. Methods/Materials I used three pitchers of water with an equal amo…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose was to examine the relationship between teacher gender, student gender, and performance in STEM. Methods/Materials Two large counties in California, Alameda and…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This research explores gender as an influencing factor in ones reaction to frustration; can behavior be predicted by a subject#s gender? Based on literature, the hypothesis…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine which genre of music will give a noticeable difference in heart rate. I will learn if the genre of music has an effect on a person'…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment will expose the importance of why adults should be educated on medicine prescribed to them. Due to the similarity between methylprednisolone and prednisolone,…