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 6421–6450
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Roughly 20 percent of the autism spectrum disorder population suffers from co-morbid diseases (co-occurring conditions that affect the individual in addition to ASD). While…
CSEF · 2014
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals If TMSCF3 transfers the trifluoromethyl anion to carbonyls in presence of trimethyl-N-oxide, which was proposed to proceed though a pentavalent silicon intermediate, then it…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals 2/3 of the 5 million Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases over age 65 in the U.S. are women. Using linear mixed effects regression (LMER), this project investigated the role of ge…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals People seem to like big trees. On public lands people like to see big trees in the forest; while on private lands, the owners want to see their trees get bigger faster so th…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to find out if adding vegetable oil to soil will preserve moisture and thereby allow the plant to grow better. It was expected that a layer of vege…
CSEF · 2014
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My goal is to produce glow-in-the-dark silk by manipulating the diet of Bombyx mori. Methods/Materials Four separate batches or eggs were ordered. The first two never hatche…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals We wanted to test the claims that major name-brand detergent companies put on their bottles. We wanted to see if the "greener" washing detergents actually yield a a less har…
CSEF · 2014
Chemistry Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Nitrite contamination, which can cause birth defects, is a growing dilemma facing the global population today, especially in agricultural communities due to the increased us…
CSEF · 2014
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if a semi-symmetrical airfoil has more lift than a flat-bottom airfoil. Methods/Materials Two airfoils were separately tested…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine whether or not the amplitude of a sound changed over distance and between different media. The hypotheses stated that the amplit…
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal for this project is to discover which browsing plant goats like the best and their least favorite plants. The hypothesis for this project is if two goats are offere…
CSEF · 2014
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether an instant cold pack can be made using household chemicals, that is as effective as commercially available instant cold packs. Methods/…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to see if people prefer grass fed beef over grain fed beef. I live on a ranch and we raise and show both types of beef. Grain fed beef tends to…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to recreate an age-old experiment (Cavendish's gravitational torsion balance) in an original way to show gravitational interaction between two small masses…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Do green roofs affect the internal temperature of houses and potentially help us conserve energy? Methods/Materials Build 5 16"x16"x8" wooden boxes without a top. Drill a ½#…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My goal is to understand why leaves change colors at different rates. My hypothesis is: If the pH in the soil is lower, the trees' leaves will change colors sooner, compared…
CSEF · 2014
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out what different types of organisms grow in different environments and whether they prefer light or darkness. Methods/Materials Materials used wer…
CSEF · 2014
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals Objective: My objective was to test different types of metal cooking pots to determine which one would leach the most amounts of metal in a 25% citric acid solution boiled f…
CSEF · 2014
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project is to test out different liquids and find out which one will make a gummy worm grow the most when the worm is submersed for several hours.…
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine if a person's Dominant Hand was more sensitive to touch than their Non-Dominant Hand. Methods/Materials Methods: 1. Gather 50 subje…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals My objective is to study how water quality indicators change before and after a Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) in Santa Cruz waters. Methods/Materials I obtained data from the So…
CSEF · 2014
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to evaluate the impact of blade count on the electrical output of a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (H.A.W.T.) at a constant wind speed of 2…
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals I play soccer, so sometimes I get hurt and get a bruise. Bruises and other aches take quite a while to heal, so I researched on how to speed up this process while still maki…
CSEF · 2014
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this science fair project is to investigate the antimicrobial effects of California monofloral honeys in the inhibition of Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli…
CSEF · 2014
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To discover how heat moves through porous metal foams, why some work better as heat sinks or insulators than others, and how changing porosity, density, pores per inch (PPI)…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to see if sod can reduce the amount of nitrate and phosphate runoff from fertilizer application. This is a follow-up study of last year#s pro…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to answer this question: Will introducing European Nightcrawler into to the soil of potted winter/rocket snap dragons help them grow talle…
CSEF · 2014
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine whether or not native Northern California Hermit Crabs prefer different shells, depending on whether they live in bay or coastal…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to develop a method for identifying faces in situations where a face is angled away from the camera or partially obscured. Novel recognition…
CSEF · 2014
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine if the antimicrobial properties of honey can combat bacteria to the same extent as a common antibiotic, Kanamycin. I studied t…