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 4591–4620
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering First Award
Objectives/Goals Access to clean water is becoming an increasingly dire issue worldwide, due to rising populations, industrialization, higher living standards, and localized drought. Solar p…
CSEF · 2016
Microbiology (General) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to develop an effective, low-cost, energy-efficient hospital room disinfection system, to target outbreak-causing Gram-negative bacteria such as CRE. This…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by loss of medium spiny neurons (MSN) in the striatum due to mutation in the Htt gene. The mutant Htt…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to devise a cryptosystem that is both efficient and secure. Methods/Materials Paper, pencils and a computer for initial research. Wolfram Ma…
CSEF · 2016
Zoology
Objectives/Goals Current methods for diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases like Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis are time-consuming and tedious as they require patients to undergo multiple inva…
CSEF · 2016
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find out if juvenile Spinosaurus dinosaurs spent a higher amount of time than most dinosaurs in ocean water. Methods/Materials Five juvenile Spinosaurus tooth fo…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to change viewers' perceptions of events in a video scene by changing the soundtrack from atonal to melodic tones. Methods/Materials This…
CSEF · 2016
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Although lithium-ion batteries are effective for current small-scale applications, wider adoption of Li-ion batteries is hindered by their limited energy density, gradual ra…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals A 2015 study showed mealworm degradation of Styrofoam. To extend this, an experiment could discover if mealworm larvae (larvae of Tenebrio molitor), on a Styrofoam diet, wou…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to test numerous designs (based on mathematical problems and basic operations) to aid in the construction of faster and more secure hash…
CSEF · 2016
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals According to The Heart Foundation, the number one cause of death in the United States is Heart Disease. Doctors around the world use stethoscopes for the diagnosis of variou…
CSEF · 2016
Chemistry Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The object of this experiment was to see if drug residue is located on currency. If so, where the money was from, what types of drugs were found and how much residue was pre…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To determine the underlying cause of retinal degeneration (RD) in a five generation consanguineous pedigree. Methods/Materials A family with four affected males and two cons…
CSEF · 2016
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to compare household disinfectants: Brand Name products and Homemade (HM) to see which killed the most bacteria. My goal - to see if environmentally safe in…
CSEF · 2016
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to determine which liquid is the most efficient in dissolving Alka-Seltzer tablets by measuring how fast the tablets will be dissolved, with the…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals PRIMARY GOAL of this project is to find if we consume DNA disasters in our daily GMO foods and also to create awareness among public about GMO foods. OBJECTIVE is to test th…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine whether different genres of music affected cognitive performance. Methods/Materials Materials Quantity Description electronic devi…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find out if boiling broccoli in lemon water would change the vitamin C, and make a healthier option for eating. Methods/Materials Brocco…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project, is to find out whether or not college helps basketball players perform better in the NBA. Methods/Materials Computer. Tested 140 NBA players.…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The object of this project was to test the effect of positive (cheering) and negative (booing) affirmations on a person's skill in sports. Methods/Materials The participant…
CSEF · 2016
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to find out if freezing carbonated water affected CO2 coming out of solution. The hypothesis was that if carbonated water was frozen, more CO2 woul…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment aims to determine whether giving children the opportunity to recycle will increase their waste output. This was tested by measuring paper towel usage at a mi…
CSEF · 2016
Mammalian Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals About 347 million people worldwide have diabetes. More than 80% of diabetes deaths in the world occur in low income countries because of lack of awareness. Current testing m…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if people's passwords get more complex with age. Methods/Materials Gathered 3 passwords from each of the 127 different people thr…
CSEF · 2016
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project was to see if plastic in the ocean affects the ability of mussels to filter a fungicide containing copper from the water. My hypothesis for…
CSEF · 2016
Plant Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine what happens to germinating seeds when salt enters the soil in their environment. Methods/Materials Six 3x3 plastic plant cell co…
CSEF · 2016
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals Since 1991 the Monterey Bay has experienced eight algal blooms, one of the largest occurring during the summer of 2015. Many of the phytoplankton in these blooms produce dom…
CSEF · 2016
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals To test if the shoulder angle of a horse affects its stride. It was expected that the larger the shoulder angle, the longer the stride. Similar to humans with longer legs ty…
CSEF · 2016
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals In what ways does the temperature affect a magnet? How could you measure the strength of a magnet? Methods/Materials One large ceramic magnet(size should be 4 ½) Plastic ton…
CSEF · 2016
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My project is to find out if different solutions have different surface tensions. The purpose of this project is to see if affecting the surface tension of an ecosystem can…