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 7471–7500
CSEF · 2013
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The best way to memorize information is by using a learning method called space repetition. This method is implemented via flashcard-based systems. The most popular algorith…
CSEF · 2013
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to see which among five different methods of sunlight exposure would maximize the output of voltage and current in a solar cell. We hypothesized that a sol…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This study's objective is to 1) Discover novel druggable sites absent in the crystal structure of aromatase by incorporating flexibility with molecular dynamics (MD) simulat…
CSEF · 2013
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether coffee grinds are a suitable substitute for sand in concrete. Methods/Materials Materials: Water, Cement, Coffee Grou…
CSEF · 2013
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to know which laundry soap solutions would be safe for our garden plants and our local environment (garden drains to a local creek). Would laundry solutions be safe…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals My goal was to discover which size and type of meat will digest the most in a 24 hour period. Methods/Materials For my experiment I cut up pork, chicken, and beef into both…
CSEF · 2013
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The objective of my science fair project was to find out how changing the number and configuration of sheaves (pulley wheels) in a pulley system affects mechanical advantage…
CSEF · 2013
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine mercury concentrations in packaged tuna and to see if it is within safe levels to eat. Methods/Materials Tuna samples in cans…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Because metal dysregulation has been linked to the development of neurodegenerative diseases, the objective of this project was to determine: (1)Which metal ion,copper, iron…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals For this year#s science fair project, I chose to investigate if a mouse will memorize a maze if he or she completes it multiple times, allowing me to see whether or not mice…
CSEF · 2013
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this engineering project is to design an end-to-end system to enable multi-week tissue culture experiments. Such experiments are not possible using traditiona…
CSEF · 2013
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Although ceramics are versatile and similar to human bone tissue, they are somewhat fragile compared to real osseous tissue, which can lead to some physical complications wh…
CSEF · 2013
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Bisphenol A (BPA), a hormone-disrupting substance that has recently been discovered as being dangerous to humans, has quietly and dangerously existed under our noses since t…
CSEF · 2013
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The benefits of plant nutrients are studied extensively for cancer prevention, blood sugar, and cardiovascular diseases. Greens provide an abundance of vitamins for human he…
CSEF · 2013
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My goal is to create a spell-corrector using Python that corrects words with greater than 90% accuracy and that minimizes the time necessary to correct each word. Methods/Ma…
CSEF · 2013
Chemistry Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The liquid-liquid extraction process is an important process for chemical separation and purification. The purpose of this scientific research was to identify factors which…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy Third Award
Objectives/Goals The Fitzhugh Nagumo Model is widely used to understand the behavior of neurons and other excitable systems, which are nonlinear oscillators with a distinct threshold and dyn…
CSEF · 2013
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The project aims to create an accurate iterative computer model of the growth and vascularization of a tumor that projects the radius, volume, number of cells, and volume of…
CSEF · 2013
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Mold found on the scarlet wisteria (Sesbania Punicea) at Scout Island was seen to be weakening and killing off the wisteria without any visible effect to any adjacent or sur…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to find out whether a person who speaks more than one language can learn another language more easily than someone who only speaks one langu…
CSEF · 2013
Pharmacology/ Toxicology First Award
Objectives/Goals Alzheimer's disease is a neurological degenerative disease projected to affect 13.2 million people by 2050. The many observed causes of Alzheimer's, varying from tau aggrega…
CSEF · 2013
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to see if pulleys or multiple pulleys can actually make an object feel lighter than it really is. Methods/Materials A pulley system was constr…
CSEF · 2013
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) is a debilitating chronic skin disease marked by large, painful cysts. There is very little research being conducted on HS (1% prevalence yet n…
CSEF · 2013
Microbiology (General) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Arsenic, a poison found in water, exists in environment in mainly two states: arsenite (carcinogenic and water-soluble) and arsenate (easily removed from water), with arseni…
CSEF · 2013
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals This project was to determine if photoelectrochemical etching ("photoetching") would successfully increase surface area of thin films by increasing nanoporosity. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals In the US, there are over 12 million people that live with cancer, but in about 90% of these cases, most patients die from the metastasis of the primary tumor. Detecting a m…
CSEF · 2013
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The problem of our experiment is to test and find out if there is an effective way to kill ordinary insects without harming the environment like DDT. Since DDT has been used…
CSEF · 2013
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to show that even though we live in an age where most ways of treating harmful organisms are chemical, such as bleach or pesticides, there are stil…
CSEF · 2013
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if ginger would be a good natural preservative for home baked bread and its optimal storage condition. Methods/Materials Method: I baked 5 diff…
CSEF · 2013
Microbiology (General) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Physarum polycephalum is a simple slime mold that crawls over agar and sends out pseudopodia, long projections, searching for food. Physarum can also navigate by leaving beh…