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 7021–7050
CSEF · 2013
Chemistry Second Award
Objectives/Goals About 130 neutral and about a dozen positively-charged molecules have been discovered in space (the most abundant of which include H3+, CO+, N2H+, CH5+, etc). However, only…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to find out if children who are younger that the rest of their classmates being misdiagnosed with ADHD/ADD just because they are more immature…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals People's perceptions can affect their health. For example, perceptions about pain can affect how much pain someone feels. Only 7.6% of teens get the needed 9 to 10 hours of…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have the ability to regulate large gene networks and are estimated to regulate 50% of the human genome. The primary objective of my project is to investig…
CSEF · 2013
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In a world where population sizes are increasing exponentially, and farmland is decreasing, there is a need for more efficient and space saving farming methods. If plants ar…
CSEF · 2013
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This project aimed at developing a compact, foldable solar panel with an improved hill climbing (HC) maximum power point tracker (MPPT) to address the need for efficient and…
CSEF · 2013
Mathematics & Software Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project was to derive a closed form formula for the A-th element of a N-Nacci recursive sequence using the residue theorem from complex analysis. Method…
CSEF · 2013
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals My project was designed to determine whether commercially available bio-based lubricants offer viable alternatives to petroleum-based lubricants when all relevant factors (t…
CSEF · 2013
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which type of air cathode (Gore-Tex, Tyvek, Windex cloth or Teflon) can produce the most power for the least cost in a microbial fuel cell (MFC…
CSEF · 2013
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to find out if opening windows before activating the A/C system helps cool down the automobile's interior faster than a baseline of A/C only. Mea…
CSEF · 2013
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To find out if airfoils become more aerodynamic when a winglet is attached. I believe winglets will make a wing more aerodynamic. Methods/Materials For my experiment I made…
CSEF · 2013
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Objective: To find the most effective method of aerating compost Methods/Materials Materials and Methods: 12 plastic bins were filled with equal amounts and types of waste.…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that substance abuse and addiction cost American society $559 billion dollars a year in increased health care costs, crime, and…
CSEF · 2013
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals Here we explore the effects of both different wavelengths of light and shorter day-periods on algal growth. We selected three different day/night periods (3, 6 and 12 hours…
CSEF · 2013
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals My hypothesis is: If I expose algae to an electric field, then it will separate from the medium and lyse the cell membrane and release the biomass and lipids which can be us…
CSEF · 2013
Mammalian Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research was to determine if there was a co-occurrence among allergies and asthma, if there was a certain age when people develop and outgrow allergies,…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine if the performance of an altruistic act would positively affect cognitive function and self-esteem. Methods/Materials Consent…
CSEF · 2013
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Many facilities are designed for right-handed people. Does this affect which side of the body people use for everyday activities other than writing, or does the writing hand…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Research suggests that there is a correlation between the absence of the membrane receptor protein, Ror2, and the presence of facial deformities, such as cleft lip and cleft…
CSEF · 2013
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals When people lie, their skin resistance can increase due to the release of sweat. This response can be used to build a lie detector. My science project titled, #An Accurate L…
CSEF · 2013
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The first objective of this study was to build a home-made wind tunnel and to perform meaningful quantitative analysis of the lift and drag performance of airfoils. Also, to…
CSEF · 2013
Environmental Science Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Salt marshes are an important ecosystem, providing services to many species, but are declining due to factors such as global warming and pollution. This investigation attemp…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find if peaks of divergence between the two subspecies of Swainson's Thrush were randomly distributed in the genome. Then, I could determine if certain r…
CSEF · 2013
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective is to analyze if CO2 or solar activity has more influence on the Earth's increasing surface temperatures. I conducted an experiment to determine the effect of…
CSEF · 2013
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals This experiment was conducted to determine the effects of urban runoff on the water quality of Sycamore Canyon Creek. If the tests of various water quality components indica…
CSEF · 2013
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to discover if Siamese Fighting Fish (Betta splendens) have the spatial cognitive ability to learn a multiple T-maze. Methods/Materials A multiple T-maze was…
CSEF · 2013
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The experiment was to determine and measure the effect of banana peels on water containing copper ions. My hypothesis was that the banana peels would decrease the amount of…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The Ediacara Biota are the Earth's oldest macroscopic organisms. They lived 575-545 million years ago and are globally distributed. Scientists excavate fossil beds in order…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to develop a new cheaper, efficient, and effective way of introducing recombinant DNA into viral cells. In this project, Cowpea Chloric Mottl…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals Biosensors employing fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between fluorescent proteins (FPs) are powerful tools for non-invasively monitoring intracellular processe…