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
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine how the brain reacts to different tastes, as measured by an EEG (electroencephalogram). Methods/Materials Using an Emotiv EPOC EEG Neuroheadset,…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effect of technology in early childhood education. The focus of this experiment was to evaluate if the amount of technolo…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if there is right light and wall paint in a room; then, the mood will improve to create better lifestyle for a person, because wall paint and light…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals Recently, I have been researching whether music or foreign language proficiency impacts the ability to distinguish the four primary Mandarin tones. As a Chinese adoptee, I w…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals For my science fair, my objective was to find out if typing notes is better than to write them down by hand. I choose this because I think it is important to know what way i…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to see if there is a gender bias in different levels of competition and age divisions at the science fair. Methods/Materials First, I contacted science fair c…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment is to see if people think that women typically have lower paying jobs than men. Women still face bias in the workplace and some people who would…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to figure out what factors will affect a dancer's balance in positive or negative ways. My hypothesis was the dancers would balance the longest in a silent…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if memorizing words in black text, in yellow text with a black outline, or as a naturally colored picture is more effective. We believe colored…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Clown fish (an anemone fish) Amphiprion ocellaris symbiotically lives among tentacles of sea anemone Stichodactyla gigantean without suffering any attacks of nematocyst discharge from the se…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to find out how the factor of money in a person#s situation affects the way they make moral decisions. Methods/Materials In this experiment,…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals An online survey was conducted to assess people's moral judgments using the classic trolley problems. I ask: To what extent do demographic characteristics like gender and ag…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment explored the relationship between music lessons and listening skills, particularly pitch perception. The hypotheses were: If a subject has had music training…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to test if video games can prove to be a strong enough mental distraction to help improve an individual's ability to tolerate discomfort. My hypothesis is t…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals To investigates English phonological change (California Vowel Shift) in the Bay Area in the past twenty years, and attempts to explain the causes of the sound change and pos…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if people retain more information by taking notes. I believe that the group that does not take notes will perform better than the group that did ta…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine the effect of the use of social devices on student academic achievement. Since the earning and unemployment rates are deter…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine how humans perceive information while external distractions take place. This study can be applied to daily life in many ways.…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective was to observe ideas of racism in children ages 3 to 8 who are presented with identical dolls of different races and to determine if children ages 3-4 exhibite…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Faulty eyewitness testimonies are the leading cause of false convictions in the United States. There are two primary photo lineup methods used by police: sequential (six pho…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Reaction rate of human subjects will be tested to observe if talking on a cell phone and texting will increase their reaction time. Methods/Materials Important materials inc…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Proper and functional innervation of the heart by the autonomic nervous system is critical for healthy cardiac function. Inadequate innervation or an imbalance of the two branches of the aut…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to see how accurately people can remember and reproduce a specific force level when they push on a deformable object where they can see the indentation, or…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to see which positive distraction, on or near a local neighborhood street, caused the the greatest number of vehicles to to obey the law, by…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goal was to determine if the amount of sleep you receive will affect your cognitive abilities. Methods/Materials 1. Record age, education level, stimulants; sleep/awake t…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals This project is concerned with the question of how to effectively praise students for good performance to make them better motivated, more confident, and more inclined to ta…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to find out which gender has better short term memory. My hypothesis was if males and females take the same memory tests, then the females will achieve higher…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals People all around the world listen to music every day. Some claim it helps them concentrate, while others claim otherwise. However, in the early 1800s, a different kind of "…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals If the photo was in standard color, then the volunteer would be able to distinguish the persons ethnic background easier, because the facial features would be easier to reco…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause posttraumatic epilepsy, currently 20% of all epilepsy cases are due to TBI. This research project studied the effects of TBI on PTE. The purpose of thi…