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 3691–3720
CSEF · 2017
Chemistry Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The experiment I am conducting consists of testing the amount of voltage produced by different materials in galvanic cells as well as the best way to connect the parts that…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study, is to extrapolate what skills will make graduating college students more valuable to businesses. The overall goal will be to give college studen…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if there is a ratio that describes the height of a redwood tree compared to its base circumference. Methods/Materials I used the equation of ta…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals This project was designed in order to determine the ability of Aurelia aurita mucus to bioaccumulate different types of oils. The project stemmed from another study that det…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals Skin cancer rates continue to rise in America and are primarily due to UV exposure. Zinc oxide was previously found to be the most effective barrier. This experiment evaluat…
CSEF · 2017
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The current project introduces a completely novel concept: the use of biocompatible microdroplets to selectively target and dissolve free cholesterol, the primary component…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Food wastage is a massive problem globally, with one-third of all the food produced getting wasted. Roughly one trillion dollars worth of food ends up in landfills every yea…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to create an alternative for plastic that holds the same properties such as flexibility and tensile strength, but is much better for the susta…
CSEF · 2017
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine how different types of potato starches affect the tensile strength of bioplastic. Methods/Materials A variety of 5 different potato starches, corn syrup, water,…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to see if worm castings could be an effective non-chemical fertilizer that is safe to use around children and pets. I wanted to compare diff…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals In modern times, the demand for more environmentally-friendly and clean energy is booming around the world. Besides wind, solar, and nuclear power, there is a developing sou…
CSEF · 2017
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals All animals within the Vertebrata subphylum develop a skeleton that is essential to life. Unfortunately, bones can fracture under heavy pressure or forceful hits. This proje…
CSEF · 2017
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals My experiment is trying to see which temperature of water will cause the most resistance in a glow stick sample. Methods/Materials I first cut open the glow stick with a saw…
CSEF · 2017
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my science project was to determine which of six different plastics (polyester, polycarbonate, polypropylene, polyethylene, polystyrene, and ABS) took the longes…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to analyze if bromelain, which is an enzyme, has the ability to improve the feed conversion rates in Buff Orpington chickens. Methods/Materia…
CSEF · 2017
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Build a 360-degree view periscope with no image disorientation, maximum comfort and minimum space requirement. Methods/Materials Materials - Cylindrical wine paper box, Mirr…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to test alternative, inexpensive materials to design a cost-effective microbial fuel cell (MFC) that can still produce usable amounts of…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals The aim of this project is to construct a driverless toy car that must avoid obstacles and proceed autonomously from its current location to a target location using a map of…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to observe the flammability of different fabrics and how harmful they may be on common fabrics worn daily. Methods/Materials Five types of…
CSEF · 2017
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if I could design an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to fly to a remote area, trap mosquitoes, then return them for scientific testing to help map…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Antibody therapeutics is a growing field of drugs, involving antibodies that specifically target a pathogen inside the body. Designing such high-affinity antibodies mimics o…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals This project is a result of the alarming number of emergency room visits by young adults consuming energy drinks. Most energy drink manufacturers claim that these drinks are…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Science Third Award
Objectives/Goals California#s local tide pools are home to thousands of species of organisms that are vital to our aquatic ecosystem. Largely due to human impacts, these ecosystems are becom…
CSEF · 2017
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I wanted to see if I pedaled a bicycle powered generator if it would produce enough electricity to power small electronics and appliances. If successful, this would prove to…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals This project was conducted to determine if a homemade, non-commercial, sump/refugium style filter system could effectively maintain safe water chemistry levels for marine fi…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to test a smartphone microscope and determine the best way to design a functional prototype with multiple applications centered around the prevention and de…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology
Objectives/Goals Group foraging in coral reef fishes has been studied for many years, but the focus has mostly been on the benefits of participation to individual fish. Less is known about t…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals QUESTION: Can juvenile crayfish, Procambarus clarkii, control population levels of the snail Biomphalaria glabrata? PURPOSE: This experiment tested the ability of juvenile c…
CSEF · 2017
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine if the light curve of a type 1A supernova compared to the light curve of a stellar mass black hole can help predict that the su…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to better understand and improve simple oral health challenges we face daily regarding the products we use. Methods/Materials Colgate Total mo…