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 · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division) Fourth Award
Purpose/Hypothesis Excessive social media usage is linked to anxiety/depression, sleep problems, and academic difficulties. Teen screen time has doubled over the past decade, and few studies…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
Pedestrian-vehicle conflict at intersections is a major safety challenge, as conventional fixed-time traffic signals do not adapt to real-time pedestrian crossing behavior and drivers often…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division) Honorable_mention Award
This project looks at how social media might affect body image in teen girls. Social media is a huge part of daily life, and seeing all the posts, videos, and trends can make people compare…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
Forward collision warnings are designed to prevent collisions by alerting the driver. Car manufacturers use various alerts with different combinations of auditory and visual stimuli; however…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study examined the impact of a student-designed AMC 8 preparatory workshop on middle school students' mathematical problem-solving skills and confidence. Many students have limited expo…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division)
For our project, we found out if using stress-relieving items can help students perform better on tests. To explore this, we gathered 30 7th and 8th graders and split them into two groups. T…
CSEF · 2026
Cognitive Science (Junior Division)
Objectives Stress has been shown to impact memory. This research will confirm the impacts of stress on memory using a Drosophila model, while also determining if Phosphocholine can improve m…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Curricula shape how societies transmit knowledge, values, and collective memory. In the United States, textbook adoption occurs at the state level, producing variation in what students learn…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division) Honorable_mention Award
Alarm fatigue is recognized as a significant risk to both patient safety and the well-being of healthcare professionals. This is a huge safety concern in hospitals. Frequent exposure to non-…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Nicotine is a psychoactive substance, commonly delivered through e-cigarettes. In the short-term, nicotine can cause an individual to feel enhancements in attentiveness, while also reducing…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
Hypothesis The objective of this project is to determine the effectiveness of a web-based gamified cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention in reducing test anxiety among high school…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Artificial intelligence is transforming labor markets around the world, yet we do not completely understand its effects on individuals. Previous research has used aggregated data and proxies…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Digital interfaces capture attention through combinations of persuasive elements, yet no framework explains why those combinations produce supra-additive cognitive load or characterizes the…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division)
The confidence crisis is all about how the amount of social media teens between the ages of 11-15 spend on social media affects their self confidence. What inspired this project was we wante…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
The occurrence of extreme hot and cold events is expected to rise with climate change. While the existing literature has demonstrated that extreme temperatures can adversely affect health ou…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division)
After performing well for a couple of years, NFL (National Football League) players typically receive a richer, longer contract that often includes significant guaranteed money upfront. Do g…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
In my experiment, I investigated the effects of music tuned to 432 Hz versus 440 Hz on short-term memory, emotional state, and relaxation markers in students. Middle school and high school p…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Color plays a significant role in how people interpret emotions and meanings, but these interpretations may change over time. The purpose of this experiment was to examine how associations w…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Smartphones are deeply integrated into students' daily lives, and frequent notifications may interrupt sustained attention during academic tasks. This study examined whether realistic phone…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
Multitasking is often assumed to enhance productivity, especially among students who divide their attention between academic work and digital media. This study examined how different forms o…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Over 47 million non-native English speakers navigate American institutions, facing an invisible barrier beyond legislation: unconscious, neurologically-driven accent bias. Listener judgments…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division)
This experiment studied how listening to different genres of music affects heart rate. Because music can affect mood, energy level, and nervous system activity, it was predicted that faster,…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division) Second Award
The way information is expressed plays a role in the feelings it elicits. Because general language represents broad concepts and specific language narrows claims, I hypothesized that, in pol…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The assessment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) currently relies on interviews and self-reported questionnaires, which limit both objective assessment and early clinical diagnosis. T…
CSEF · 2026
Cognitive Science (Junior Division)
Objective: This project investigated whether humans find answers to science questions more trustworthy when provided by an artificial intelligence system or a human. As AI becomes a tool for…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Feminicide remains one of the most severe expressions of gender-based violence worldwide, reflecting structural inequalities of race, territory, age, and social context. In Brazil, underrepo…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Growing up, I often compared myself to others, which led me to wonder whether it was possible to quantify self-esteem and how academic performance can influence it. Because the pressures fol…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division) Third Award
Each year, over 350,000 people in the United States experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, and nearly 90% do not survive. Early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can triple survival ra…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
Abstract- Currently, 11.7 million people worldwide are affected with Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative movement disorder of the central nervous system, in which dopamine-producing cel…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor symptoms such as tremor, rigidity, and bradykinesia, as well as widespread cognitive and behaviora…