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 8011–8040
CSEF · 2012
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals our objectives were to find how many calories are stored in different types of foods. Methods/Materials Methods:we burned food in calorimeter, measured items and used formul…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The goal is to prove that metal will be able to withstand the most amount of heat from a burning laser because the metal is a stronger material as compared to wood, plastic,…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Can Something that is designed be recreated by random chance? What is the probability if the materials needed were present? I believe that none of the designed things that I…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if exposure to different levels of caffeine would alter the heart rate of Daphnia Magna. It is also to see if the heart rate would increase, decrease…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose is to capture radiating energy, convert it into electricity, store the energy, and be used to light up a LED without using any external power source. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals In the late 1950#s Ray Lockwood of Hiller Aircraft began his organized study of valveless pulsejet engines and developed the unique U-bend configuration. This study seeks to…
CSEF · 2012
Mammalian Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I came across a recent article that said a chimpanzee was able to comprehend muffled speech. I researched and found out about a parrot that was also able to identify muffled…
CSEF · 2012
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if chickens see color. Methods/Materials Method- Step 1: paint three different feeding areas;one red, one blue, and one green Step 2: set up th…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to see if children can perceive the difference between Duchenne (real) smiles and fake smiles in other children. Additional goals were to determine if there…
CSEF · 2012
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals I play in the marching band where we use a Dr Beat when we rehearse our field shows. A Dr Beat is a loud speaker that is connected to a metronome. The beats from the metrono…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine whether electricity in various forms can stimulate plant growth or seed germination. Methods/Materials Lettuce seedlings in pots were given eith…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if girls could correctly identify the difference between real and fake smiles while being shown pictures of them, better than…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our experiment determined whether common household gray water could be recycled to water plants without negatively affecting their growth. This could have the potential to r…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals Propolis, a resinous substance produced by bees, has long been utilized as a popular folk remedy to its wide spectrum of purported pharmaceutical properties, including anti-…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals This project investigated the effects of cooling batteries to slow their self-discharge rate. All batteries suffer from self-discharge, or loss of stored charge in a battery…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals My goal is to determine that invertebrates will have a healthy survival and reproduction rate in reclaimed water from the New River in order to assess the effectiveness of t…
CSEF · 2012
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to find out what type of rotor design on a wind turbine generates the most wind energy. My hypothesis was that I thought the rotors that were…
CSEF · 2012
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective was to see if Tree Frog behavior could help predict Earthquake activity. My hypothesis was that the frogs would climb above mid-tank and be active before or af…
CSEF · 2012
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine how the latent fingerprint revealing technique of dusting would be altered by the powder applied to the print, and whether these prints reveale…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to see how different materials affected Bluetooth transmission distances. I think the reduction in transmission distance will be proportio…
CSEF · 2012
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find out which type of sugar substitute(Splenda, Sweet n' Low, or Honey) will produce the most amount carbon dioxide in the least amount of time using ye…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to see if an 80 acre farm could be farmed carbon neutral. Methods/Materials Building on last year's Science Fair Project "Is There an Optimal Cover Crop De…
CSEF · 2012
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals I began my project by selecting twenty-six areas to collect vegetation samples. In each of these areas I measured a square yard and cut the grass (elk are grazers and eat gr…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Determine which cashier strategy is most efficient. In this case, the strategy that results in the shortest average waiting time in the queue is the most efficient. I consid…
CSEF · 2012
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Currently, energy is one of the primary concerns for the world. Many alternatives to the combustion of fossil fuels have been proposed, one of which is hydrogen fuel cell te…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to build an environmental friendly carbon dioxide filter that is safe and economical for home use, as well as to determine its efficacy with d…
CSEF · 2012
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Because Vitamin C is an essential vitamin for health, my objective was to test the impact of heat applied through common cooking methods on the vitamin C levels in fruits. T…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if cell phones increase your reaction time. Methods/Materials -iPod touch -Cell Phone with recorded stories Results The average reaction time,…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine how and if levels of radiation emitted by cellphones varied when the phone was recieving a call and a text message. I also teste…
CSEF · 2012
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goal was to measure the effects of blade design on electrical output generated by a wind turbine. I created 3 different blade designs; a V-shaped blade, an airplane wing…