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 8371–8400
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy Third Award
Objectives/Goals The loss of organs due to disease or injury is a major medical problem, and often this problem can be corrected using organ transplantations. Since there is a chronic shorta…
CSEF · 2012
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find the best place where chanterelle mushrooms will grow. My hypothesis was: The best place to find Chanterelles is in a damp shaded area under oak tree…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The goal is to determine if changing the humidity of a baseball affect its performance. This experiment will test dehydration and a baseball's performance. The question is:…
CSEF · 2012
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The main goal is to improve the water solubility of resveratrol to prevent it from being metabolized too quickly. By polymerizing resveratrol with polyethylene glycol to mak…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find which of the herbicides (Roundup, cinnamon oil, lavender oil, or vinegar) was most effective at inhibiting the color, growth, and n…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of my science project was to determine the age at which NBA players peak. I believed that the average NBA player would peak around the ages of twenty-four and twent…
CSEF · 2012
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see which had a greater effect on lift, the shape of an airplane wing or the weight of the airplane. I believe that the shape of the airplanes wing will…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software Second Award
Objectives/Goals To formulate a new method that is more efficient than that of Lehmer and still creates a relatively thorough solution set. Methods/Materials An initial set is augmented with…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy Second Award
Objectives/Goals This project applied a novel physical framework of perception, based on modeling neurons as nonlinear oscillators. The objective was to understand the underlying physical ba…
CSEF · 2012
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Failures to maintain energy balance contributes largely to obesity. The body produces Leptin,a protein in proportion to food intake and stored adipose mass, and acts on brai…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective of my Science Fair Project is to warn the population about brain cancer and cell phones. My dad passed away from brain cancer and I want to share my family's st…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To monitor and assess corrosion in the aging civil infrastructure, we proposed integrated heat induction and IR thermography technology to detect corrosion in steel reinforc…
CSEF · 2012
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this research was to define a novel method of detecting hematological malignancies (blood cancers) based on conductivity fluctuations within the blood. This…
CSEF · 2012
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals In my research, my goal was to determine if there were nucleotide sequences that are 100% identical between the human cDNA and other organisms. If so, I would determine what…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to investigate whether the levels of ionizing radiation increase with increased proximity to a Nuclear Power Plant. If I increase the proximity to the San O…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if the use of a Slant Board and Blocking Methods improve reading fluency in students. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained from a vo…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals This science fair project was done to learn more about the effect of nutrition on glucose levels of horses. The primary types of hay available are thought to have differing…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if music has an effect on the loss of equilibrium and can cause dizziness. If so what music will cause the largest loss of equilibrium and make y…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment is to find a way to separate oil from cross-linked polymers that is more environmentally safe. Methods/Materials I used oil that is similar to li…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In my experiment I set out to prove that no matter how many sprouts a potato, whether whole or cut, may grow from its many eyes, only one sprout will grow into a terminal sh…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Growth models have been quintessential in mainly economic and biological applications, but are also practical and could be explored more for medicine, chemistry, industry, a…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The modern field of mathematics is a widely varied and diverse subject, with subfields ranging from statistics to homological algebra. Due to this variety, different tools h…
CSEF · 2012
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine whether or not monkeys have a hand preference. I predicted that the primates in this experiment will use one particular hand more naturally tha…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to see if the addition of a second pane of glass would lower the temperature of the glass when subjected to a heat source. Methods/Mater…
CSEF · 2012
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine the effect of wood composition on burning rate. Determining which woods burn faster, and why.My hypothesis was if I test my selected five woods, the softer and…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project is based on genders, boys and girls. The main idea of this project is understanding more about how body works and the difference between girls and boys in learn…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research project was to determine if placing a neodymium magnet (Nd2Fe14B) on a certain location, or quadrant of a Yttrium barium copper oxide supercondu…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The main objective is to create a computer program that is capable of guiding an unmanned helicopter from point A to point B in minimum time without hitting the obstacles be…
CSEF · 2012
Microbiology (General) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The demand for oil resources has grown astronomically in recent years. Several models predict that oil production will start to decline after 2020, leading to a shortage of…
CSEF · 2012
Microbiology (General) Second Award
Objectives/Goals Tomato plants often suffer from a fungus, Verticillium dahliae, which stunts the plant and wilts their leaves. In the fields, for commercial production, farmers fumigate the…