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 3601–3630
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals In a real world situation, members of different organizations often need to travel to multiple destinations without passing through the same place twice. However, identifyin…
CSEF · 2017
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals RNA analysis requires multiple lab processes and manual handling that is tedious, expensive, and susceptible to cross-contamination. The goal of this project is to develop a…
CSEF · 2017
Chemistry Second Award
Objectives/Goals Dyes are used in many industries, such as textiles, plastic, printing, and cosmetics. Because current methods of wastewater treatment are expensive and create toxic sludge,…
CSEF · 2017
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to apply a genetic computational strategy to optimize airplane wing shapes. Methods/Materials Materials: Python 2.7 programming language interpret…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (General) Third Award
Objectives/Goals This engineering project is building an oxygen generator using micro algae. High carbon dioxide concentration from breathing can cause headaches and breathing discomfort. Th…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My question is to find out how much fertilizer that runs off into a body of water is harmful. My hypothesis is that the more concentrated the fertilizer dilution series, the…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to automate the scoring process for Fast Fourier Transform plots, which represent a radio signal as observed by a telescope. The algorithm calculates a scor…
CSEF · 2017
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals This project analyzes the spectra of 157 stars, collected by the Lick Observatory's Automated Planet Finder (APF) telescope, to search for potential laser signals from extra…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if garlic is effective as an antimicrobial against E. coli bacteria. Methods/Materials The antimicrobial properties of garli…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To create an accurate diagnostic and prognostic machine learning based methodology for Alzheimer's early detection by using polygenic risk scores constructed from single nuc…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals As cognitive training has been used as a primary treatment of several disabilities as well as memory diminishing diseases, my main objective of this project was to prove tha…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals There exist no single, reliable methods of diagnosis for Parkinson's Disease, which motivates a machine learning approach. The purpose of this experiment is to perform a com…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals About 80% of all cancer incidences are sporadic and largely caused by environmental factors. This implies that cancer incidence varies widely based on geography, and my prel…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Lesion segmentation plays an important role in the early identification and treatment of melanoma, a deadly skin cancer. Our objective was to develop an end-to-end methodolo…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to create a 2ft high-density surfboard that repels leopard sharks using rare earth neodymium magnets. Methods/Materials 14 Neodymium magnets o…
CSEF · 2017
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The goal of this study was to understand and develop a mathematical and computational model of a typical cosmic radiation particle as it travels through time changing magnet…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This engineering project reverses desertification by constructing a lattice composed of biochar, basalt rock dust, and coconut coir. By reducing wind erosion, maintaining so…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to create a smart air filter controller that can control any standard air filter based on the level of particulate matter air pollution. The…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The US Department of Transportation states, in one of its reports, rear-end collisions contribute to more than 33% of all car accidents. The objective of this engineering pr…
CSEF · 2017
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The primary objective of this project is to design, build, and test an altitude control system for high altitude, long duration weather balloon flights. Ordinarily, weather…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Find the most efficient maze-solving algorithm among three different algorithms: the #right-hand rule#, #dead reckoning#, and #dead end remembering#. Methods/Materials The p…
CSEF · 2017
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find an appropriate delivery system to create oral protein therapeutics. Methods/Materials Carboxymethyl chitosan and sodium alginate were used to coat h…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Energy making-related emissions from power plants and other traditional fuels cause major respiratory and cardiovascular health risks. Producing reusable, environment-friend…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To be able to understand how society will progress in the future, the biases that certain generations hold must be identified. The goal of this project is to assess bias lev…
CSEF · 2017
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Cancer has been a pervasive and deadly problem for many years. So far, no treatments have been developed that specifically destroy cancer cells while sparing healthy cells.…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if sulfate free shampoos versus sulfate containing shampoos affect hair tensile strength in different ways. Methods/Materials I w…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to analyze the effect that Imidacloprid has on brine shrimp hatching rate and survival. Methods/Materials Brine shrimp eggs and Imidacloprid w…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to indicate if various Central Valley sources contain a safe level of nitrate and phosphate. Methods/Materials Water monitoring kit, 3 differe…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to determine the most effective moisturizer by measuring the amount of water loss in each moisturizer. The less water loss in the emollient the m…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (General) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of different nitrogen sources on the degradation of crude oil by a common soil microorganism, Pseudomonas putida. Me…