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 4351–4380
CSEF · 2017
Applied Mechanics & Structures Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to derive the vertical air currents in hurricanes using a physics-based model to describe the dropsonde fall speed in still air. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objectives of this experiment are to explore the effect of ethnicity and gender on personality, find the approximate personality ratio between traits in society, and tes…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals People with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) must compute an insulin bolus dose for every meal to cover the carbohydrates and return the blood glucose (BG) level to euglycemia (normal…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals Use machine learning to prevent illness and prevent epidemics by predicting strains of H1N1 and H3N2 influenza viruses. Methods/Materials Accessed online databases to get la…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology
Objectives/Goals Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by the reactive oxygen species released by neurons mitochondria when they are damaged by a high Ca2…
CSEF · 2017
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals To engineer a high heat conduction thermal evacuation suit that also addresses superheated penetrating gas. Suit will allow a person to escape a fire of temperatures reachin…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Classroom teachers sometimes put student essays through a plagiarism detector to search the web for any matching sentences and paragraphs. But this doesn#t detect if the pap…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals How are astronauts going to even survive getting to Mars with all the radiation they would be rendered helpless against? Assuming that humans do find a way to get to Mars sa…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine if ultraviolet light can effectively eradicate bacteria from student music instruments. Methods/Materials I used sterile nutrient agar plates, s…
CSEF · 2017
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Converting lipids extracted from used coffee grounds into usable biodiesel efficiently by using a strong acid catalyst and comparing it to other fuels, such as vegetable bio…
CSEF · 2017
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals As fossil fuel is starting to become non-renewable, alternate energies such as wind power are being considered as a possible way to run our nation. The purpose of my experim…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Science Second Award
Objectives/Goals Of all Green House Gases (GHGs), CO2 causes highest surface warming and shows highest correlation with temperature. Currently majority of CO2 emissions are from fossil fuels…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology
Objectives/Goals A prevalent problem globally, heart disease is often caused by the constriction of blood vessels, reversible using vasodilators. One class of these vasodilators, nitrate con…
CSEF · 2017
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to prove the usefulness and versatility of 3D printing in the world of prosthetics and overall medical usefulness of 3D printing. This project i…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals The main objective/goal for this project is to create a successful communication device for the aurally and visually impaired. This is being done to help the thousands upon…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals If someone played video games for thirty minutes everyday for thirty days, could it improve short-term memory? What category of memory scores would improve or decline if the…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if males or females could process visual information more accurately and at a faster rate. Previous research done on this subj…
CSEF · 2017
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals This project investigated the inhibitory properties of aqueous extracts of waste coffee grounds (WCG) on the corrosion of zinc in HCl. The effects of extract concentration a…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals We strongly believe that urbanization has greatly impacted many watersheds in Silicon Valley due to the decrease of natural land, which increases chemical and ion concentrat…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this science project is to determine what common pollutants are the most toxic. Also, to show people how badly they can really harm the aquatic world. The pro…
CSEF · 2017
Applied Mechanics & Structures Second Award
Objectives/Goals With up to one million people in just the United States reported to be missing limbs due to birth defects, injuries, or illness, the need for replacement prostheses is extre…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Generalize the Euler Line to non-triangular polygons. Invent a method to find the special points (while confirming collinearity and 2:1 ratio). Determine which polygons cont…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals Climate change is one of the biggest challenges my generation will face. The purpose of my project was to find what factors influence junior high students' opinions on clima…
CSEF · 2017
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals My goal of this project was to determine the best consumer wind turbine for the urban environment. Methods/Materials To make this project very reliable I decided to test 4 t…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine whether or not white noise has a negative impact on memory. Methods/Materials A noise emitting device, approximately 50 students,…
CSEF · 2017
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Our project was about testing and finding the total amount of corrosion accumulated on iron and copper in different possible solutions. We experimented to find the extent of…
CSEF · 2017
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine what material attenuates a WiFi signal the most. Methods/Materials Connect NETGEAR wireless router, check settings. Connect Andr…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goal for my project is to help people to get there moneys worth off of moisturizers because every year people pay to much money trying to find the best moisturizer to kee…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to see how widespread the ability to digest and degrade PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is among organisms. Methods/Materials I used a bioin…
CSEF · 2017
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals To determine whether physical exercise during adolescence will have beneficial effects in adulthood such as decreased body weight and greater exercise output. Methods/Materi…