Every California Science & Engineering Fair project Fairfolio holds: 17,387 entries across 24 years, with the abstract, category and awards the fair published for each one.
CSEF coverage: available historical abstracts for 2002–2019; award-listed projects only for 2021–2025, without abstracts and with explicit labels where titles were not published, except that most 2023 winners carry the abstract from CSEF's archived public showcase; public showcase abstracts for 2026. The 2020 fair was canceled.
Counts cover every year of this fair and use its own category labels, exactly as the source published them. Each one links to that category's CSEF projects.
17387 projects · showing 1–30
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death among women, with approximately 42,000 deaths annually in the United States and over 700,000 worldwide. A majority of these deaths…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
Adequate access to Braille resources is one of the largest challenges that can improve blind people's education level and social connectedness. The current embossers on the market are extrem…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN smashes protons together at nearly the speed of light to search for particles never seen before, potential keys to understanding dark matter, extra di…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
Detecting molecular species in exoplanet atmospheres through transmission spectroscopy is essential for exoplanet characterization, but traditional atmospheric retrieval methods are computat…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
Adolescence (ages 14–18) is characterized by rapid neurodevelopment that influences attention and cognitive control, often producing measurable changes in reaction time and accuracy. However…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Bacillus Thuringiensis is a bacterium which, in a study led by Mizuki et. al. in 1999-2000, had been discovered to produce a variety of special Cry(Crystal) proteins in the pesticidal bacter…
CSEF · 2026
Cognitive Science (Junior Division)
With increasing use of technology, many students struggle with remembering information after learning a lesson. Studies have shown that memory is also tied to the types of sensory input. Thi…
CSEF · 2026
Product Science (Junior Division)
The purpose of this experiment was to compare the fire resistance of different types of paint and evaluate how a formulated fire resistant paint performs compared to common commercial paints…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
PROBLEM Cerebral aneurysm rupture causes subarachnoid hemorrhage with a 50% mortality rate. The current clinical detection tool, the PHASES score, has an AUC of 0.64 and misclassifies 70-80%…
CSEF · 2026
Mathematical Sciences (Junior Division)
A Computer Vision Based Human Computer Interaction System Using Nose Movement for Assistive Control Abstract: Many people with physical disabilities have difficulty using computers and games…
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Junior Division)
Objectives: The 2024 Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 midair door separation highlights how missing components can lead to a catastrophic failure in an aerospace system. The National Transportati…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences(Senior Division)
Tulare County, a rural region in California, relies on groundwater contaminated with inorganic compounds and heavy metals. Low-income residents lack access to advanced filtration systems. Th…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Identifying safe landing zones accurately for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is very challenging, especially during emergency Search and Rescue (SAR) missions. The commonly used LiDAR-based a…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Senior Division)
This project presents computational techniques and hardware architecture for robust 3D perception in challenging environments, where signal degradation causes conventional sensors to fail. T…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Calibration is essential for the operation of quantum processors. However, each calibration process requires time and effort. Thus, the goal of this research is to rethink the calibration pr…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Wildfire suppression is increasingly challenging due to the fast, unpredictable spread of fires and the limited availability of aerial resources. Coordinated drone swarms offer a promising s…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Corn pests cause hundreds of millions of dollars in annual crop losses, yet current pest management relies on broad-spectrum chemical pesticides that harm ecosystems, beneficial insects, and…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) facilitate communication among autonomous vehicles (AVs) via V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything), making these AVs susceptible to various cyberattacks, including d…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition whose diagnosis remains highly dependent on clinician expertise, time-intensive behavioral assessments, and limited a…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Junior Division)
CDK4/6 inhibitors are used to treat hormone receptor–positive (HR+), HER2-negative breast cancer by blocking cell-cycle progression. Although several CDK4/6 inhibitors are approved, further…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Track 2) (Junior Division)
Earthquakes may seem to be just tremors that make buildings rattle and trees shake, but they can be very dangerous. Even though they were only 8% of the disasters from 2000 to 2019, they acc…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Traditional 3-axis fused-filament fabrication (FFF) is fundamentally constrained by Euclidean planar slicing, which introduces discrete staircase artifacts and fixed-bead orientations that c…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences(Senior Division)
The accumulation of pyrethroid pesticides in agricultural soils, many of which have lost about 50-70% of their original carbon stock, poses significant health and environmental risks as pyre…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Track 2) (Senior Division)
The convergence of Smart Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and Large Language Models (LLMs) presents a novel framework for intelligent soil monitoring and precision agriculture. This study pr…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Junior Division)
During Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in Clear Lake, California, the lake is not safe for swimming. This experiment compared the effect of temperature on the growth of a cyanobacteria, Anabaena…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease affecting approximately 18 million people worldwide. Many treatments rely on monoclonal antibody drugs that block inflammatory signals such…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Senior Division)
Resistant hypertension affects billions of people globally, however despite improvements in science and drug discover, hypertension remains one of the most deadly causing over 10 million dea…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Project Number: 081-670-81 Title: AI Model Defining Heart Healthy Foods Team Member(s): Wanqi Li Purpose: This project builds an AI-assisted tool that helps people identify heart-healthy foo…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
Pedestrians face significantly increased risk at night and during rainy conditions due to poor visibility, reflective glare, water-filled potholes, sidewalk cracks, and hidden obstacles. The…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Senior Division)
Air quality impacts everyone, yet monitoring is often expensive. To solve this, we developed a computer vision system that estimates air quality directly from sky images. We hypothesized tha…