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 6991–7020
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine the swimming stroke that raises the adult human heart rate the most. Methods/Materials Ten adult masters swimmers were asked to…
CSEF · 2014
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine which kind of light bulb (11W Incandescent, CFL, or LED) generates the most electricity on a solar panel in the most efficient…
CSEF · 2014
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to find the best wood type and fire-retardant solution combination. It was hypothesized that the painted, fire-retardant sprayed redwood would ha…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine why people go over the speed limit in their cars. I expected that men would drive faster than women, and that drivers with kids in their car woul…
CSEF · 2014
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to study the effect of surface materials, such as paper, glass, wood, and metal on the detection of fingerprints. As part of my project, I…
CSEF · 2014
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to find whether the inside or the outside of bathroom door handles had more bacteria. Methods/Materials I swabbed the inside and outside…
CSEF · 2014
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to investigate what happens to the vitamin C content of 3 freshly squeezed juices as they undergo processes similar to those performed on the juices sold at…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals As the use of technology increases in modern society, an increased exposure to human radiofrequency (RF) waves emanated by these devices results. Even with research, scienti…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The real-world objective of this project was to improve the wireless reception of two personal computers by building and testing a parabolic reflector to collect, focus, and…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to design, build and test a prototype hardware and software to detect fire in its infancy and produce an automated warning response via Bluetooth. Methods/M…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals In recent years, millions of households across the country have committed to conserving energy by changing the household light sources from incandescent bulbs to light emitt…
CSEF · 2014
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine which material, air beads, memory foam, or fiber protects the eggs from cracking. Based on my research on the materials, the hypo…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Determine how well MCU-2P and M-50 Gas Mask filters protect our troops in normal, wet, and alcohol-drenched environment. Methods/Materials MCU-2P and M-50 mask filters were…
CSEF · 2014
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine which number of blades on a windmill would generate the most electricity. I will test the windmill with 2, 3, 4 blades. Methods/Materials Build…
CSEF · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Bridges located in hurricane-prone environments can suffer extensive damage in the forces of a hurricane. The objective of this project was to design a small-scale bridge de…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The problem was to determine whether ocean water could be purified in an ecologically healthy and inexpensive way using a home built parabolic trough solar reflector. Method…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The initial goal is to demonstrate the occurrence of Inattentional Blindness. If Inattentional Blindness is demonstrated, then the objective is to determine if Inattentional…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Superconductors have "zero" resistance in electric current flows. When they are subjected to an external magnetic field, the surface eddy currents are persistent without any…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to measure which out of three fluency improvement methods works the best or shows more improvement in children's words per minute in flue…
CSEF · 2013
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals To create a true 3D display that does not rely on illusion of depth, design should be capable of projecting simple geometric shapes and some animation in three dimensions. M…
CSEF · 2013
Applied Mechanics & Structures Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To study the effect of the addition of non-Newtonian fluid to helmet padding on the force generated on the head during a football hit. Methods/Materials I studied this conce…
CSEF · 2013
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My hypothesis stated that by changing the air pressure of a high performance paint gun will it make the color of paint change lighter or darker? To test this hypothesis I fo…
CSEF · 2013
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals As traditional energy resources such as petroleum oil diminish, we need to explore alternative energy sources, including nuclear energy, hydro power, wind energy, and solar…
CSEF · 2013
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine what acoustical properties are employed in a musical instrument. Methods/Materials First, I measured the distance between the frets on a guitar…
CSEF · 2013
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The goal was to analyze stability derivative changes based on manipulation of horizontal tail geometrical properties of a Boeing 787-8 Vortex-Lattice model. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2013
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Cypermethrin is a highly chiral synthetic pyrethroid pesticide. Despite having desired insecticidal effects, it is harmful to the environment because certain stereoisomers i…
CSEF · 2013
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My projects objective was to find out which antacid has the highest potency to cure heartburn. Hypothesis: I believe that Equate will cure heartburn the fastest, because whe…
CSEF · 2013
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals How will rising carbon dioxide levels in the ocean caused by rising fossil fuel emissions affect calcium carbonate shells of marine animals? Higher carbon dioxide in the oce…
CSEF · 2013
Mammalian Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The goals are: 1) to develop a cookie-baking like method to fabricate micro-devices (with feature size of 10 µm) at home; 2) design, fabricate, and test a homemade micro-dev…
CSEF · 2013
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn how to more quickly compute the number of quadratic residues modulo semiprimes. This was because I proved last year that the number of quadratic re…