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 4951–4980
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Global warming is one of the world#s greatest challenges and it is clear that reducing emissions will not stop the global warming process. Removing CO2 from the atmosphere i…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether different geometric shapes will reduce evaporation better than shade balls (sphere) while at the same time reducing cost. Methods/Mater…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals This work addresses the design of shape-shifting robots, which can transform into any desired shape. Methods/Materials A deformable robot was assembled, consisting of triang…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My project is to determine if shape words can interfere with the simple task of naming shapes, I would also be looking for any crucial differences between ages and genders i…
CSEF · 2016
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The Shark Stopper Experiment tested if Samarium or Magnesium attached to a wetsuit, can prevent shark attacks. Methods/Materials Based on the shark's senses in it's head, th…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to measure the decrease in protease content of fruit juice after being heated. Methods/Materials A turbidity meter was constructed and used to…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine the effects of sloped armor on the effective energy of a penetrating projectile. Methods/Materials Pellet gun, ballistic gel, s…
CSEF · 2016
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Rotor blades used in many home appliances, electronic equipment, and aircraft contribute to significant amounts of noise pollution, which negatively affects people's quality…
CSEF · 2016
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to extend the time of the current Nomex fire suit#s ability to protect firefighters from permanent damage due to exposure from direct flames and high intensi…
CSEF · 2016
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if a neodymium magnet, battery and a copper wire are capable of creating a high source of magnetic field resulting in constant motion making it t…
CSEF · 2016
Zoology First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to examine whether E(z)/EZH2-dependent H3K27me3 may be one epigenetic mechanism underlying transgenerational programming of longevity, and EZ…
CSEF · 2016
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine the effect of pot size on the efficiency of natural gas conversion into heat energy on a stove. Methods/Materials Four aluminum…
CSEF · 2016
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My project explained how best to protect armored vehicles, the problem is making the armor strong but keeping the vehicle maneuverable. Spaced armor (pairs of parallel armor…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Around 1.6 million people die annually from lung cancer--about 3 every minute. Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is the most fatal and aggressive subtype of lung cancer due to t…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Build a Smart Flood Sensor device that can be used in a network of flow sensors in a city's drainage system to collect, analyze, and predict rain and storm water flow data.…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals With the water crisis in California and other places in the world, I started this project with a goal to develop a low cost smart irrigation controller able to significantly…
CSEF · 2016
Electronics & Electromagnetics Third Award
Objectives/Goals My project goal is to measure the angle of the user#s feet, to determine if their gait was proper, display the collected data or allow for real time correction of the feet,…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Fresh water is a limited but important source that we depend on to live. However, 50% of outdoor water usage is wasted due to inefficient watering systems. Due to these alar…
CSEF · 2016
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals This project was created to attempt to qualify and quantify the benefits and drawbacks of two different methods for converting solar power to electricity. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals Converting solar energy into electricity has become very common. Modern buildings have many windows, which receive a lot of sun light. Is it possible to engineer an energy c…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My goal was to determine whether or not you can increase the power generated by a solar panel by using concentrated lenses and tracking the sun with a helio-tracker (Sun-tra…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if salt water can be turned into fresh water using only the power of the sun and if certain surface materials are more effective than others. M…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine how the color of the bottom of a solar powered desalination device affects its efficiency. Methods/Materials Tested and comp…
CSEF · 2016
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Solar stills are systems in which contaminated water is evaporated and condensed to produce clean water. I created four cups of water (one containing regular water and the r…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine which angle of incidence and which reflective material would generate the highest energy output from the solar panel. The se…
CSEF · 2016
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment is to demonstrate that many of the commercially available soft drinks have high sugar content by trying to dissolve an increasing number of s…
CSEF · 2016
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals There are over 38 million people who are deaf in the United States alone (Harrington, 2014). Cochlear implants, which are used to treat patients who are deaf or hard of hear…
CSEF · 2016
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to measure the desiples the speaker amplifide with the different materials from inside a box. Methods/Materials Testing the difference between different ma…
CSEF · 2016
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to measure and compare two different sound frequencies once the materials are put in front of it. Methods/Materials Acoustic foam (2¡± x…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find what conditions were necessary for moving objects, known as #spaceships#, to be produced in cellular automata with varying birth rules (how many of an empty…