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CSEF projects, 2002–2026

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.

Years

Category breakdown

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.

Projects

17387 projects · showing 8071–8100

CSEF · 2012

Corrosion Prevention

Chemistry

Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to test the most effective method of slowing down the corrosion of metal. Methods/Materials I prepared steel washers four different ways. The f…

CSEF · 2012

Cost-efficient Fire Fuels

Materials Science (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals The objective is to find out the most cost efficient fire fuel. Methods/Materials Five burning materials (pine, oak, charcoal briquettes, lump charcoal, fire logs) were spli…

CSEF · 2012

Curdle It Up!

Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine the best type of milk to be used for milk coagulation. It was hypothesized that whole milk would be best for coagulation because it had the hi…

CSEF · 2012

Designing the Optimal Winglet for Flight

Applied Mechanics & Structures

Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine the aerodynamic capabilities of winglets # the tips at the ends of wings that point up. I wanted to test the differences between different size…

CSEF · 2012

Determining Strength by Measuring Strain

Applied Mechanics & Structures Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals The objective is to discover how much stiffer a wooden sample will be if foam and fiberglass is added to it. Methods/Materials The procedures to conduct this experiment take…

CSEF · 2012

Developing New Drugs to Treat Autism

Pharmacology/ Toxicology

Objectives/Goals 1)Are autism symptoms caused by excess purinergic signaling? 2)Would drugs that block P2X/P2Y signaling of extracellular ATP (such as Suramin) reduce the root cause and will…

CSEF · 2012

Did You See That? Subliminal Messaging

Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to see if subliminal messages inserted into videos affect the viewers perception. My hypothesis was that the viewers will be more influenced…

CSEF · 2012

Distracted Drivers

Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to quantitatively measure how much texting while driving affects a driver's reaction time. Methods/Materials To test my hypothesis, I desig…

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