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 3511–3540
CSEF · 2018
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to synthesize a new contrast agent probe for imaging of pancreatic cancer. Methods/Materials 10 micrograms of THY-1 single chain antibody var…
CSEF · 2018
Chemistry Third Award
Objectives/Goals Synthesize gold nanoparticles surrounded by a TiO2 hollow shell to serve as a more efficient photocatalyst. Methods/Materials First, the gold nanoparticles were prepared by…
CSEF · 2018
Mathematical Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To create a model that can understand human emotion in such a way that it essentially "feels" emotion just like humans do. Emotion is a key enabler of natural human interact…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal is to find out what people fear by filling out surveys about fears, and based on those results, determine if fears change with age. Methods/Materials I made a quest…
CSEF · 2018
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to test the problem solving abilities of Steller's Jays. Methods/Materials Using clear plastic containers mounted on a wooden box I built tes…
CSEF · 2018
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals We are studying Phytophthora ramorum, a water mold which is killing tanoaks and causing a foliar infection on Bay laurels in Santa Cruz County. Sudden Oak Death threatens th…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Growing scarcity of high-quality drinking water supplies across the globe heightens the need for innovative and sustainable technologies for drinking water decontamination a…
CSEF · 2018
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The goal of our project is to find a new tunnel lining design that is stronger, and more stable while being environmentally friendly by reducing the amount of materials that…
CSEF · 2018
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals In our daily life, electricity is the most common usage in our entire world. With wind energy, life is a lot cleaner, faster, healthier, and more efficient than any other en…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to economically engineer and test 3-D printed Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) in a series connection for use in large scale application like a d…
CSEF · 2018
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to learn at what temperture does catalase break down hydrogen peroxide most efficiently. Methods/Materials Timer, Potato and Potato Peeler, F…
CSEF · 2018
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to build a self-contained two-phase immersion cooling unit that can effectively dissipate the heat from a full size ATX form factor desktop compu…
CSEF · 2018
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) affects more than 200 million people worldwide. Steady-state plasma glucose (SSPG) values are crucial to determining T2D as they indicate a patient's i…
CSEF · 2018
Mammalian Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Traumatic brain injury (TBI) damages cerebral cells and the annual cost to treat is $76.5 billion. CT scans are primarily used to determine extent of injury, yet are expensi…
CSEF · 2018
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The goal was to analyze working and dead pixels on an OLED (Organic light emitting diode) phone display to understand why the display region stopped working and if the damag…
CSEF · 2018
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine which bacteria where susceptible or resistant to certain antibiotics and to find out why this occurred. My hypothesis was that b…
CSEF · 2018
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to analyze how the enzyme invertase converts sucrose into glucose and how this affects the amount of actual glucose digested from different fo…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine what tree's and bushes are the safest to plant near your home in case of a wildfire. Methods/Materials We tested ten different pl…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine the order of energy efficient conditions for hover engines by varying the type of substrate (surface below them), substrate…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The Department of Environmental Health recommends waiting 72 hours before entering the water at our local beaches after a significant storm event. The purpose of my project…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Used coffee grinds (UCG) are increasingly becoming a huge waste problem. To mitigate this problem my experiment is about reusing UCG as soil to grow plants. Research shows U…
CSEF · 2018
Toxicology First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment was to solve the issue of invasive species which compete for nutrients with desirable plants. As a solution, adjuvants can be added to herbic…
CSEF · 2018
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Over the past decade, many mechanisms of telomerase inhibition have been developed to treat cancer. Yet certain barriers prevent telomerase inhibition from becoming a robust…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to determine whether earth-friendly biodegradable Coconut Coir, Straw and Raffia each rolled onto jute fiber matting and made into berm covers…
CSEF · 2018
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine if conducting electricity in wire affects its metallic bonds and thus its tensile strength. It was hypothesized that if an ele…
CSEF · 2018
Computational Systems & Analysis Second Award
Objectives/Goals The Foldscope is a microscope made of paper and a removable lense which costs 25 cents to make. In this project Foldscope is used to target Schistosomiasis, a parasitic dise…
CSEF · 2018
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals The engineering goal was to create programs that cluster characteristics of Scoliosis candidate genes and prioritize pairs of Scoliosis patient DNA sequences to investigate…
CSEF · 2018
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to analyze types of bacteria present in bagged salads and determine if any bacteria were pathogenic and whether bacterial composition and qua…
CSEF · 2018
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals I chemically inhibited the cytokinesis of algae to characterize both the growth and the cell wall components of the algae. Methods/Materials Applied Endosidin 7 (chemical) t…
CSEF · 2018
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Micro/nanostructuring a surface has been proven to amplify its hydrophobic tendencies. Considering the role of nanostructures in hydrophobicity, I attempted to create a wate…