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 6151–6180
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to measure the effect of gender on optical illusion perception. The hypothesis was that if the subject's gender was female, she would be…
CSEF · 2014
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine the nutritional and caloric differences in GM vs. non-GM papayas. With population set to drastically expand by 2050, and GM…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To develop an easy, simple method for identifying microorganisms based on their DNA sequences, Bayes' theorem was applied to DNA sequence analysis. It was hypothesized that…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to investigate whether or not an aquaponics system can grow taller crops than those growing in fertilized soil. Aquaponics is a method for g…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective of this project is to grow plants using an eco-friendly environment with no pesticides. I predicted that if I grew plants in an Aquaponics system, that they wou…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to discover if negative consequences or positive rewards are more effective as motivation and whether gender is a factor. Methods/Materials I tested partici…
CSEF · 2014
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The sun produces enough solar energy on earth to make almost every household in the world energy independent. Current solar panels have inefficiencies present which causes t…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals An experiment was carried out to determine if some multiplication facts are harder than others. For the purpose of this investigation, time to answer the fact and the accura…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To establish and explore the connection between the mental and moral stages taken from Piaget and Kohlberg's theories by analyzing the responses from the test. Methods/Mater…
CSEF · 2014
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to observe whether contact solutions kill bacteria on contact lenses after one wash. It is hoped that through this experiment, one contac…
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals To record and observe the dietary and metabolic affects of artificial sweeteners such as Saccharin and Sucralose on the common mouse (Mus Musculus). Methods/Materials Materi…
CSEF · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals There is nothing more precious than life! Yet, in the United States and around the world, many lives are being lost because of senseless killings due to possession of high-p…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals A leading problem in our society is the lack of physical activity in the lives of busy teenagers. Many students need motivation to escape from the pile of homework on their…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Ten male subjects and ten female subjects were both shown ten signs by the tester with a brief description of each. After fifteen minutes subjects were tested to see how man…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to design and build an electronic prosthetic device to handle delicate objects, like eggs, and be size and shape independent. It uses sensors to provide inp…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Over the course of this project, I developed and tested a novel method for a device which finds a sound source. Methods/Materials With components collected from local and in…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine the effectiveness of anthelmintics against intestinal parasites in select horses in Mendocino County. Methods/Materials We col…
CSEF · 2014
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to continue testing five select contact lens solutions against P. aeruginosa, and to see how low the lens solution preservatives Chlorhexidine Gluconate an…
CSEF · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This project compared the properties of two types of non-Newtonian fluids, colloidal and polymeric, and searched for and found a mechanism causing those properties at a mole…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This project studies how ferromagnetic and diamagnetic forces affect magnetic levitation distance and its stability, respectively in diamagnetic levitation. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Solar events known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) regularly cause serious problems for electrical systems on our home planet, where the fluctuations of the solar magnetosp…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals This study was designed to 1) determine the change in population of keystone microorganisms with an increase in aqueous carbon dioxide, and 2) determine possible connections…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals In the USA, there is huge demand for transplantable organs with over 110,000 people on the waiting list to receive an organ and, of these, 18 people die everyday. African-Am…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine at what grade level can children distinguish between candy and non-candy items. Methods/Materials To test my project, I tested 1…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Finding the right songs to use in a video is a tedious process, as one must manually listen and evaluate many possible songs to determine whether they express the right mood…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The warmer weather and current drought in California can stimulate a rapid growth of algae, or algal bloom. This process is also accelerated by the contamination of nitrates…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals To chart was to see how different shapes and angles could be sensed more accurately than others. Three different shapes (cylinder, cube and rectangular prism), and two diffe…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to build a belt that could be used by anyone who wants to correct their posture. Since reminders from parents are not always available, the be…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To determine whether exposure to magnetism, UV radiation, or colder temperature affect the regenerative abilities of Lumbriculus variegatus. Methods/Materials Four environme…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Objective: The experiment was to measure the presence or absence of Escherichia coli (E.coli) in different samples of sand collected from different locations. It was expecte…