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 7561–7590
CSEF · 2013
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Many companies are using QR (quick response) Codes to market their products, and QR Codes are being printed on many different things from tiny codes on medicine bottles, to…
CSEF · 2013
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals This study seeks to measure enclosure space utilization by the San Francisco Zoo's four Chacoan peccary and statistically quantify the animals nervous-frightened response to…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of our experiment was to figure out how long it takes for a neodymium magnet to seize levitating over a Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide compound cooled with liquid…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research project is to compare the various properties of superconductors with respect to how much weight they can hold when levitating in a magnetic fiel…
CSEF · 2013
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to test how the concentration of cornstarch and water, Oobleck affects its shear thickening properties. It was hypothesized that a 75% sol…
CSEF · 2013
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project was to determine which household electrical device emitted the most extremely low frequency (ELF) radiation while in use. Methods/Materials Usin…
CSEF · 2013
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine the thermal conductivity of different roofing materials. I believe that slate will have the most drastic effect on water tempera…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Tay-Sachs is a neurodegenerative disease that has no cure. Since many people don't know about this devastating disease,the goal of this project is to learn if the population…
CSEF · 2013
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals Cellular senescence is a tumor suppressor mechanism which functions by permanently arresting cell cycle, while keeping cells metabolically active. Senescence may be triggere…
CSEF · 2013
Applied Mechanics & Structures Second Award
Objectives/Goals Our engineering goal is the design and construction of an affordable autonomous quadrotor based aerial photography system for rapid acquisition of accurate and up-to-date ma…
CSEF · 2013
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine how the increase in temperature of an acid bath affects the corrosion of aluminum. My hypothesis states there is a direct cor…
CSEF · 2013
Applied Mechanics & Structures Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find which type of shock oil gave the optimal absorption rate for a remote controlled car. Methods/Materials An accelerometer was attached to a remote co…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals In the US, there are 105, 567 people waiting to receive an organ on the organ donor list. 18 people die every day because they did not receive the organ that they needed to…
CSEF · 2013
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals Will the amount of bacteria colonies change based off of lighting of the environment? Methods/Materials Gathered lake water and placed in different bottles. Let the bottles…
CSEF · 2013
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective was to see whether natural plastic degraded faster than synthetic plastic. Methods/Materials The project was conducted in two phases: Phase 1 involved manufact…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine whether distractions affect a persons abillity to operate a motor vhicle. Methods/Materials Mterials- table,projector,froza motorsports 4 video game, xbox, stee…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine whether there was a connection between the stem cell behaviors, as seen through the regenerative processes, of the brown planari…
CSEF · 2013
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals What I set out to do was to try to figure out if my experiment question, How high will a weight be lifted by a wheel spinning at a certain RPM and how much RPM can be recove…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Patients with diabetes posses a significantly impaired wound healing potential, due in part to a failure of diabetic tissues to re-vascularize oxygen-deprived areas of injur…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine if treating hydrophobic soil with an alkaline solution or an Aqua Gro L solution will speed the soil rehabilitation process and hel…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The goal of the project was to determine whether ray tracing is an effective method of visualizing relativistic physics. Methods/Materials A basic Java ray tracer was writte…
CSEF · 2013
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Can ocean waves bend piezoelectric crystals enough to produce energy? I predict that the greatest amount of energy extracted from ocean waves using piezoelectric methods wil…
CSEF · 2013
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals 1. To test the hypothesis that a newly isolated stem cell line has the potential to differentiate into hematopoietic stem cells by using this line of stem cell to rescue let…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals SUMO, or Small Ubiquitin-like MOdifiers, is a group of proteins essential to life in many eukaryotes, implicated in such processes as the cell cycle and transcription. Altho…
CSEF · 2013
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to learn about the effect of rocket component on rocket flight and test these things. Methods/Materials Main Rocketry Components 1 model rocket kit, 15 Mode…
CSEF · 2013
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to remedy the low reliability of the Internet as a communications medium for emergency communications during a disaster. The network created woul…
CSEF · 2013
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The Objective of my experiment was to determine what affects the flight of the rubber band shot from a wooden rubber band toy gun. I believe the longer the barrel length of…
CSEF · 2013
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the effect of different amounts of ammonium acetate on the population on phytoplankton living in the Oakland Estuary. Methods/Materials Ammoniu…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment explores the right delivery mechanism to maximize the absorption of the information from the size of the reading media, which is the screen size. The questio…
CSEF · 2013
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to make a small salt water battery and to see if it can generate enough electricity to light a small low voltage bulb. And also to find o…