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 5671–5700
CSEF · 2015
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The goal of the first year of this project was to explore the effect of different wave barriers at different locations on a tsunami-induced seiche wave. The wave barriers we…
CSEF · 2015
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals This project's objective was to find out if dandelion extract had superior UV protection properties when tested against SPF 15, 30, and 50 Coppertone sunscreens. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Jabberwocky is a next generation spelling and grammar checking that uses stacked deep unsupervised autoencoders to make corrections from actual understanding of sentence con…
CSEF · 2015
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project, Jamie And The Beanstalk, was to find out how different gases affect the germination and growth of lima beans. I wanted to test my hypothesis that…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment is to see if people think that women typically have lower paying jobs than men. Women still face bias in the workplace and some people who would…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My objective was to try and make graphite a pressure sensitive resistance, and then to study the parameters influencing it's resistance (width of the graphite, elasticity...…
CSEF · 2015
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of our project is to create a thermoelectric generator vest which can charge small electronic devices such as a cell phone based on the Seebeck Effect. Methods…
CSEF · 2015
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals I developed a new method for developing latent fingerprints on porous surfaces using microwave radiation. I compared my method to two other commonly used development methods…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to build a device that generated power from a soccer ball. I researched existing products, build and designed a prototype and then analyzed i…
CSEF · 2015
Chemistry Second Award
Objectives/Goals Our goal was to use polarimetry to measure the activation energy of the inversion of sucrose in the presence of a catalyst. Sucrose inversion occurs when it is dissolved in…
CSEF · 2015
Chemistry First Award
Objectives/Goals In this project, I synthesized magnetite nanocrystals in my home kitchen using everyday household supplies. Methods/Materials The ingredients for the synthesis of nanocrysta…
CSEF · 2015
Zoology
Objectives/Goals While observing birds at a local lagoon, I noticed that the overall bird abundance and diversity seemed to differ at high versus low tide. I was interested to learn more abo…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Traffic jams are caused in a lane merge when people overly slow down when they are approaching the merge. As the people in front start to slow down people behind them also s…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to prove the soccer fields I practice on don#t have harmful levels of lead (Pb) in the soil. Methods/Materials Materials included: Soccer…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals For this year's science fair, I am investigating the dangerous levels of lead in soil in and around children's play areas. I chose this question because this topic greatly i…
CSEF · 2015
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to see what the most effective way for testing lead is. Prior to beginning this project, I believed that pure water solutions would work be…
CSEF · 2015
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn how the porosity of a porous medium impacts flowrate. My hypothesis was that the larger the porosity the faster the flowrate would be. Methods/Mate…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to figure out what factors will affect a dancer's balance in positive or negative ways. My hypothesis was the dancers would balance the longest in a silent…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine if there is a correlation between light pollution levels and population. I also wanted to compare the different levels of light…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to see how different light/dark cycles affect bioluminescence in dinoflagellates. I believe that as the light cycle nears zero hours per 24 hour…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals This experiment was performed to see if changes in sleep cadence affected a mouse's learning ability. This builds on my previous five years study of the effects of artificia…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals In this investigation, a lightweight, optic flow-based collision detection algorithm capable of running in real-time was developed with the goal of achieving key benchmarks…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine how will lime juice affect the growth of pathogen bacteria (E.coli) and how much time will it take for the lime juice to reduce the bacteria by…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this computer science engineering project was to create a programming language usable by anyone, from a total beginner to an advanced programmer. Therefore, i…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (General) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Curious about a "Corn Fed" bumper sticker on a passing car, I decided to look into alternative fuels. The objective of my project is to determine how sunlight affects the li…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award
Objectives/Goals The LittleDog project was part of the DARPA Learning Locomotion program, which involved using a quadruped robot, LittleDog (constructed by Boston Dynamics), to walk through…
CSEF · 2015
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals I predict the compounds will have various effects on the Hydra#s regeneration which may include multiple budding, fast regeneration, retarded growth, extended tentacles, and…
CSEF · 2015
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My goal is to show that farmers don't need to spend hundreds of dollars on fertilizers and in return can use local leaf compost. Methods/Materials My main materials include:…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals Huanlongbing is a disease spread by the Asian Citrus Psyllid vector which has done billions of dollars in damage to the citrus industry worldwide. Presently, tests for the b…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software Second Award
Objectives/Goals Understanding elements and their atomic structure is a very interesting and important study. But, the logic involved is not straightforward. My goal is to come up with a sol…