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 481–510
CSEF · 2026
Zoology (Junior Division)
Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is driven by abnormal activation of the Hedgehog (HH) signaling pathway through the Smoothened (SMO) receptor. HH signaling also regulates regeneration and posteri…
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Junior Division)
The purpose of this project is to create the best possible glider in terms of time aloft. Throughout the experiment, I varied the center of gravity, dihedral angle, and angle of attack on a…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences(Senior Division)
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a massive accumulation of microplastics located between the coasts of Hawaii and California. In 2016, the enzyme PETase showed its ability to depolymerize…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Junior Division)
Saving water can give us long-term food security, we can help others who need it more than us, and we can donate to other people who need electricity. The average farm uses about 1,000 to 7,…
CSEF · 2026
Chemistry (Junior Division)
Motivation: To create and test a model lotion formulation and study the effects of two cosmetic polymers in a product, specifically a lotion Problem: What difference is there between two cos…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Track 2) (Junior Division)
For my project, I am creating a moisture detection device that I decided to name PotBot, that lets you know when your plant needs to be watered! Every year, 35% to 50% of houseplants die fro…
CSEF · 2026
Chemistry (Junior Division)
PROBLEM: This experiment investigated and compared the effectiveness of powdered versus granular activated carbon in filtering ink-polluted water, using different concentrations of ink. The…
CSEF · 2026
Plant Biology (Senior Division)
This study examines a precision nutrient and pH regulation method designed to improve plant growth and resource efficiency. As global food demand increases, crops are often grown in conditio…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks the motor neurons responsible for controlling voluntary muscles, displays marked clinical heterogene…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Senior Division)
Cancer combination therapy may enhance therapeutic efficacy by concurrently targeting multiple survival pathways; however, experimentally evaluating millions of potential drug pairs is neith…
CSEF · 2026
Plant Biology (Senior Division)
As one of the nation's leading agricultural regions, Fresno, California produces more than $9 billion in crops annually. Powdery mildew disease poses a significant threat, affecting high val…
CSEF · 2026
Alternative Energy (Junior Division)
The purpose of this project is to create a cost-effective and renewable way to make electricity using kinetic energy. Public spaces waste opportunities to harness electrical energy, and this…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
A common assumption in the literature when studying stellar wind bow shocks is a spherically symmetric stellar wind, despite $\sim25\%$ of O-type stars being rapid rotators, inducing severe…
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Junior Division)
In aviation, safety has always been paramount, with airfoils (essentially the wings of the plane) at the center of discussion, as they have led to numerous crashes/threats to safety in the p…
CSEF · 2026
Alternative Energy (Junior Division)
This project examines the effectiveness of a propeller-based energy harvesting system on a boat in mitigating the impact of waves while harvesting low-velocity, oscillatory water motion. Exi…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Junior Division)
Since ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight damages the DNA of living cells, protecting cells is important to lead a healthy life. One way cells could be protected is through the use of n…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences(Senior Division)
Our project goal is to find out how effective water hyacinth roots are at removing microplastics from the water. We hypothesize that water hyacinth will be effective at removing microplastics,…
CSEF · 2026
Chemistry (Junior Division)
Extraction and purification of caffeine is a common low-cost organic chemistry lab. Many protocols include recrystallization for purification and many use thin layer chromatography (TLC) to…
CSEF · 2026
Microbiology (Senior Division)
Azole antifungals have long served as frontline therapies for Candida infections due to their efficacy and oral bioavailability. However, the increasing prevalence of azole- resistant Candid…
CSEF · 2026
Microbiology (Junior Division)
Cyanobacteria are often only thought of as culprits involved in harmful algal blooms, but there is an important role that cyanobacteria play in the environment. They can act as powerful biof…
CSEF · 2026
Mathematical Sciences (Junior Division)
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become quite common and can be found doing many different things. Around 73% of Americans show a willingness to incorporate AI into their daily lives (Pew Re…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Senior Division)
Wilderness search-and-rescue (SAR) operations in U.S. national parks have remained consistently high over the past decade, placing sustained strain on emergency response systems. National Pa…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
Chaos, discovered in the 1960s by Edward N. Lorenz, has a broad variety of applications from describing many systems in our daily life to analyzing systems such as electrical pulses in the h…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Senior Division)
Early cancer detection is commonly framed as a classification problem, yet such approaches rarely address whether early disease states are physically detectable in molecular data at all. Her…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
This project develops a physics-grounded framework for reservoir computing implemented in simulated spintronic networks (STNO arrays, vortex MTJs and skyrmion textures). By deriving semi-ana…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Junior Division)
Controlling the spatial distribution of thermal radiation is important for passive thermal management in microelectronics, suppression of thermal noise in quantum and cryogenic systems, and…
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Junior Division)
Which material absorbs sounds the best?
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
Autonomous vehicles often use time-of-flight (ToF) sensors that emit near-infrared light and measure the return time to estimate the distance to obstacles. In extreme weather and lighting, w…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Senior Division)
Rapid identification of respiratory pathogens is essential for selecting the appropriate treatment, especially in primary care clinics and developing areas with limited medical resources. I…
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Senior Division)
Through the process of evolution, natural organisms have developed distinct morphologies suited to their environment and mode of survival. With this as inspiration, recent work has studied g…