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 6751–6780
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to find out whether or not the internet is having an effect on todays youth regarding suicide and self harm rates. Methods/Materials We gave out 249 survey…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals In 2010, accidental drug overdoses led to over 2 million visits to the ER and 30,000 deaths. According to the Centers for Disease Control, more Americans die each year from…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to see how news affects social media.My results showed that sports had the most tweets per article on average. They also showed that sports had a…
CSEF · 2014
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Short noncoding RNAs, microRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression by silencing mRNAs through degradation. Since miRNA dysregulation is linked with tumorigenesis, expression…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my investigation was to determine if the colors of soda affects the way we perceive its taste. The project I did was a three part test. Those three parts we…
CSEF · 2014
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This is my 4th year of science experiments on worms, slug/snails. Previously, I discovered that tea, especially the liquid form of high concentration of green/red tea, is le…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals During an emergency, when releasing students to their parents is time critical, schools still have to sift through binders of information to match the students to their auth…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals With increasing demand for organic food, we sought to determine if human senses are capable of distinguishing organic from nonorganic food. Based on background research, we…
CSEF · 2014
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals To evaluate the optimal temperature at which to grow a kombucha SCOBY. I hypothesized that a higher temperature within the range recommended by many kombucha brewers would b…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The temperature dependence of the indirect bandgap in thallium bromide (TlBr) has been determined using variable temperature (5 K to 300 K) cathodoluminescence. The spectra…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to provide an insight into the workings of magnets and explore the relationship between temperature changes and the workings of magnets and el…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The goal was to see what brand of battery/voltaic cell is most efficient over a range of temperatures, and what brand lasts the longest. Methods/Materials I used five differ…
CSEF · 2014
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to find out if the energy output of a photovoltaic solar panel is affected by its temperature. The hypothesis was that they are and that…
CSEF · 2014
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Objective/Goals: Tennis players worldwide use tennis shock absorbers. They believe that a reduction in racket vibrations help them play better. But do the shock absorbers ac…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals To find which seeds (if any) are more successful in germinating under Mars-like conditions (low atmospheric pressure, freezing temperatures, and in carbon dioxide). Methods/…
CSEF · 2014
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the micro- and macro- climate factors that lead to the presence of terrestrial salamanders in our study area, Henry Cowell State Park. Methods/…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project attempted to find a thorough and efficient method for teaching writing. Methods/Materials To perform this experiment, 572 middle school students (22 classrooms)…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals Abstract I was led to this project because I have always loved heliophysics, and I have always loved researching the sun in general: I have always wondered about the solar w…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to see how different levels of carbon dioxide affect plant growth. Methods/Materials Air was pumped through aquarium tubing into a carbo…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The project objective was to determine out if there are any Exo-planets that could potentially support life. Methods/Materials Three criteria tested the planet#s habitabilit…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals To determine if different durations of alcohol exposure will affect a bovine liver's rate of enzymatic reaction. Methods/Materials Three consecutive trials were carried out.…
CSEF · 2014
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals A microbial fuel cell can generate electricity from organic waste. Bacteria in the organic waste generate extra protons and electrons during their digestive process. The ele…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The primary objective of this project is to determine whether underwater acoustic networks, or UAN's, can be used as a system to monitor pollution in relatively large bodies…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The quantitative objective for this project is attempting to determine whether non-blind individuals with no previous training on echolocation can echolocate successfully, a…
CSEF · 2014
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The worlds food production is partially dependent upon effective pest control toward insects. Insecticides are problematic as they are often toxic and because insects often…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Since the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) started its mission in 1996, using the coronagraphs from the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) C2 and C3,…
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to investigate the effect of listening to various genres of music on heart rate(HR). Based on the literature, we expected that listening to fast tempo musi…
CSEF · 2014
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to find the best firewood in terms of most heat with the least smoke at a good price. It is important because more and more people in our commu…
CSEF · 2014
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to find the most effective method in fighting fungal infections while also maintaining a very minimal amount of side effects and using both na…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the project was to determine whether the height of tomato plants is significantly affected if they are grown in soil that has been restored by phytoremediatio…