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 4261–4290
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine if musical experience and time had any impact on people#s abilities to correctly match a pitch with their voice. Methods/Ma…
CSEF · 2017
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if ,tocotrienol, an antioxidant, will induce apoptosis. This experiment analyzed the apoptotic effects of tocotrienol on par…
CSEF · 2017
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if exposing heavy cream to UV light would be a method of producing cholecalciferol, also known as vitamin D3. Methods/Materials My…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my study was to determine the optimal biodegradable coagulant and the optimum pH for clarification and repurposing of graywater for domestic irrigation. Met…
CSEF · 2017
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to see if cooling the surface of a solar panel with water would increase its energy output. Methods/Materials I used two solar panels, t…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of the experiment was to understand how best to preserve and restore the native coastal sage scrub community. Methods/Materials Materials: 48 Salvia apiana plants,…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if radiation emitted by an X-ray machine had the capability to decrease the natural process of neurogenesis (growth and develo…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to investigate how changes in air pressure might affect seed germination in pea plants. Methods/Materials potting soil, spray water bottle, pea seeds (Pisu…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine if diet supplements, (2, 4 Dinitrophenol Sodium, Sida Cordifolia, and Coumarin) would have an effect on heart rate and life…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to see if diluting different seawater salinity levels would have a negative effect on plant growth and production. The purpose is to find an a…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My project objective was to grow wheat with distilled, tap, Colorado, and New River water and compare the growth rate. Methods/Materials Silica sand was poured into 4 alumin…
CSEF · 2017
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine whether electrolyte supplements had an effect on the performance of the horses at the 2016 Cooley Ranch Ride. The performance was m…
CSEF · 2017
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals I wanted to investigate the effects of saturated and unsaturated fats on the rheology, gluten development, and final structure of a quick bread. Methods/Materials I tested t…
CSEF · 2017
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine how different types of foods affect blood sugars. In addition, we were looking at how different types of foods affected a typ…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to test the adoptability of animals based on their assigned name. Methods/Materials I have talked to many shelter officials to see what kinds of n…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals Glyphosate is the most widely-used agricultural chemical ever. It is one of the many homo sapien-ensued factors that affects our environment. The purpose of my project was t…
CSEF · 2017
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals This study was undertaken to prove that hypothermic conditions can be an in-vitro model of the tau hyperphosphorylation seen in Alzheimer's disease. Secondly, this study was…
CSEF · 2017
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Objective: To determine if concentration, molecular weight, and ion size affect the refractive angle of visible light through solutions containing solutes of various sizes.…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine whether memory is better if people are multitasking or not. Methods/Materials Materials: Recording of article on phone, notebook…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Martian habitability is a problem for NASA and other space agencies that will need to be solved before we can send people to Mars. This project consists of attempting to tra…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Birds in California salt marshes have become acclimatized to human presence and its effects remain unexamined. The objective of this study is to determine whether difference…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals According to the EPA, there are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic trash in the world's oceans with 300 million added each year. It is vital to understand how to decompose plas…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals Determine the effectiveness of two different synthetic and natural antifungal medications on limiting the growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae over time. Methods/Materials The…
CSEF · 2017
Physics & Astronomy Third Award
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to test how temperature and material affect the speed of sound in a gas. I tested the hypothesis that if the temperature is changed, then the speed…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals Our objective is to find the correct increments of the hormones auxin and gibberellin to increase the growth of Brassica rapa. We want to find this so that farmers could spr…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Current research indicates rates of depression and anxiety among adolescents, youth ages 13-19, have increased by 70 percent in the past 25 years. Adolescents are repeatedly…
CSEF · 2017
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to determine how varying the amount of a specific ingredient that constitute a bioplastic mixture can affect tensile strength. I hypothesized that…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine how different soil types affect preservation of possible feather imprints of Tyrannosaurus rex. Research has proven that it is…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of our project is to test out the toxicity of perfumes, colognes, and body sprays. Methods/Materials The materials that we used are, plastic cups, saran wrap,…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of our project is to determine how the amount of stages in a Gauss Rifle affect the speed of the projectile launched. Methods/Materials A stopwatch, a measurin…