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 8491–8520
CSEF · 2012
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The goal is the test the affect of the haze layer and temperature at altitude on the efficiency of solar panels. Methods/Materials I used a weather ballon with various measu…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was about desalination to remove the salt from water to make it drinkable. The current methods of desalination are very expensive, and are not safe to the environ…
CSEF · 2012
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My Objective was to built a solar oven in a form of a lunchbox that I can carry to school with my lunch inside of it and use it to cook my lunch without the use of electrici…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to create a computer program that uses various processes for solving the roots of first through fifth order polynomials. The results are lim…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I have always been upset that so many people in the world have hardly anything to eat. If food were more common, that wouldn#t be a problem. My experiment, #Solving World Hu…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals As technology flourishes, the production of copious amounts of multidimensional data has revealed limitations in visual forms of data representation. Due to these limitation…
CSEF · 2012
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find a possible safer treatment for Parkinson's Disease. My hypothesis was that soybean polyamines will delay the breakdown and destruct…
CSEF · 2012
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The experiment was to measure the effect of the size and the angle placement of a rear spoiler on the amount of drag and lift/downforce on a SUV-type automobile. It was hypo…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our project is to see if treating the seed coat speeds up germination of pea seeds. Methods/Materials In our experiment we were measuring the speed of germina…
CSEF · 2012
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine whether dogs bark differently in response to different stimuli. Methods/Materials Barks were recorded various times in respo…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The amount of energy that industrial nations are using continues to increase. Making electric motors more efficient would help reduce the use of energy and help the environm…
CSEF · 2012
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals There is a lot of talk these days about high protien versus no protien, and high carbohydrate diets versus low carb diets. I wanted to see which one of these diets would pro…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals To Find Out if a metior hit water at what angle would cause the biggist wave. Methods/Materials The materials in the experiment used were a 3" by 3' tube, 1 lacrosse ball, 1…
CSEF · 2012
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals How do you make the highest splash? My project looks at the physics and variables involved in making a splash. I have focused on measuring the "jet", or vertical splash, of…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to see how much different types of soils compact when a weight was dropped on them, what their bearing capacities were before and after compaction, and how…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In my project, I wanted to know if the core used in a solenoid will affect the strength of the magnetic field. Methods/Materials A solenoid was constructed, allowing differe…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if human beings tend to walk in a circle while blindfolded and, if so, whether certain factors (such as gender, age and right- or left-handedne…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I chose to investigate whether male or female drivers will respect a stop sign with a witness present. I found this interesting because in neighborhoods so many people do no…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Permeable pavers are an attractive landscaping tool and are beneficial to the environment. While reviewing literature on permeable pavers last year, I noticed the use of a g…
CSEF · 2012
Microbiology (General) Third Award
Objectives/Goals Bacteria of the genus Shewanella can respire a wide variety of solid-state electron acceptors; they can serve as biocatalysts in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and as agents fo…
CSEF · 2012
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to determine the best combination of string and cup materials and thread or wire length used in creating a String-Cup Telephone, also known as a T…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Third Award
Objectives/Goals For cancer, diabetes, and other diseases, myosin inhibitors offer potential prevention and treatment by blocking cell migration and stopping diseased cells from spreading. T…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals At our school, many people are interested in badminton and at their games or practices, they always try to choose the shuttlecocks with no damages. Some players believe that…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Sudoku is an NP-complete puzzle, meaning that it is in a group of puzzles of great importance to mankind. So, I pose the question, "What heuristics are most efficient in hel…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to determine how increased amounts of carbon dioxide exposed to plants affect their stomata. I hypothesized that the plant that was exposed t…
CSEF · 2012
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to measure how different sweeteners affect blood glucose and to determine which is the best sweetener to use. This project is important to socie…
CSEF · 2012
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to discover if the sugar composition affects the time it took to construct a lollypop. Each sugar had their own composition. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if there is any correlation between Sun Protection Factor (SPF) of different sunscreens and the transmisson of UVA from sunlight. I hypothesize…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I measured visible and UV wavelengths emitted from a mercury vapor lamp as they pass through a cell containing sunscreen of various sun protection factors (SPFs). I hoped to…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if sunscreen has any affect on sun-sensitive paper. I think the sunscreen will stop the sun from going through the plastic bag, to affect the sun…