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 3631–3660
CSEF · 2017
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to observe the flight characteristics of thrust, mass & speed of 2-Wing & 4-Wing Penaud ornithopters & to measure the effect of wing battens o…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Objectives/Goals Over the past 3 years, I have conducted 3 experiments to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic cells, and I realized that they have 3 major flaws: they do not generate elec…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to determine if magnetism has an effect on the rate/speed of regeneration of planarians, and whether or not magnetism does have an effect on the re…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to observe how an animation played at different frame rates affects how test subjects remember what happens within it. Methods/Materials Tv pa…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals At which concentrations is antibiotic resistance developed in Escherichia Coli and is Coliphage T4 a viable treatment for the developed resistance? Methods/Materials Colipha…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals To (1) compress the existing VGG-16 Convolutional Neural Network into a smaller neural network specifically tailored to a reduced number of categories of images to decrease…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The formation of a hairpin core structure by the HIV-1 virus transmembrane glycoprotein gp41 is the critical event that triggers viral fusion to the host cell. Fusion inhibi…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Epilepsy is a neurological disorder affecting more than 65 million people world wide. A seizure prediction system can greatly help epileptic patients to avoid potentially da…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals There is an increasing need for assistive devices as expressed by patients in critical care, with speech and language difficulties, as well as those with disabilities. As a…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics Second Award
Objectives/Goals Currently, there are not many options to heat or cool the body without adding or dropping layers. Additionally, there is no way to intelligently increase and decrease one#s…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals Physicians often rely on histology & cytology lab reports to diagnose diseases. Lab report generation needs manual intervention which adds cost and time. These prevent a loc…
CSEF · 2017
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to develop a gadget with can be latched onto a vent and detect any clogging, heat buildup, and/or combustion in an air vent. Design criteria of t…
CSEF · 2017
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Gene therapy shows great promise in treating many human diseases. However, one major drawback of the current technology is that it can only be directed to a particular mutat…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective is to build a pocket-sized, user-friendly, everyday refrigeration device suitable for transporting pharmaceuticals in developing countries and other areas wher…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals California experienced a historic drought between 2011 and early 2017. To comply with water usage restrictions, different costly water saving methods have been available for…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Endangering aquatic species and threatening global ecosystems, algal blooms pose a serious environmental problem around the world; yet current control methods are costly, in…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals I investigated wheatear microorganisms can biological convert carbon into oxygen.My thought was lake microbes can be fed plastics and use carbon from plastics as food source…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals By testing the effectiveness of different antacids in the same acid, I was able to determine which antacid had the highest acid neutralizing capacity, and I was also able to…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Evaluate the effect of the biopesticides based on a plant extract, beneficial bacteria, and entomopathogenic fungi, on cotton plants infected with the fungal plant pathogen,…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I am testing which type of antibiotic, natural or synthetic, leaves a larger zone of inhibition against bacteria. Methods/Materials I used LB agar plates, and s. epidermidis…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology
Objectives/Goals By conducting an experiment using natural sugar and artificial sugar substitutes, determine whether ants have the ability to communicate the quality of a food source through…
CSEF · 2017
Chemistry Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my research project was to create reusable electrical biosensors which utilize nanostructured porous silicon as a substrate to accurately measure the concentrati…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to determine how much time people spend on their technology devices & whether age/gender impacts this. The information learned from this experime…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals This project seeks to propose a simulation-based model of synaptic development, with special focus on two features which are crucial to the process of learning: synaptic pla…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to design and build a prototype of a smart water sensor that will send an electronic message alert when a water leak is detected, creating a next…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine what time of day, out of four times being tested, there would be a higher concentration of particulates in the air. Methods…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals All my life I have taken medications because I have Arterial Tortuosity Syndrome, which is a very rare connective tissue and heart disorder. Over time I have taken a variety…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology
Objectives/Goals This science project aims to determine the presence of external and internal parasites on randomly selected fish samples from San Diego and San Pedro Fish markets and identi…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if there is a difference in nitrate and nitrite pollution levels in the natural bottom versus concretized sections of the Los Ang…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if the flexible edge design of a Pro Teck surfboard fin will reduce fin cuts. Methods/Materials I dropped ballistic gel molds onto…