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 8551–8580
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals My research experiment examined which soil medium would decompose different food waste particles the best to produce a better soil for producing the fastest, healthiest, and…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the project was to develop an algorithm that can conceal data of a variety of uncompressed files of different formats and recover the hidden data without loss…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if the angle and number of voussoirs have an effect on the pressure a model semicircle arch can hold before collapsing. I predicted that a semi…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Would the installation of a bio-remediation water treatment system increase the levels of dissolved oxygen enough to withstand the biochemical oxygen demand of the sudden al…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals To define which crucial triangle point (incenter, centroid, orthocenter, circumcenter) is also the triangle#s center of balance or gravity. Methods/Materials I tested my the…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals We studied the growth and development of an ornamental sunflower, Helianthus annus L, in a statistically controlled experiment. The factor was the topical application of a l…
CSEF · 2012
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experimet is to see the reaction of the protist the Physarum polycephalum (also known as the "true slime mold") when confronted on all sides by a mixture…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals In the environment, multiple environmental stressors interact and challenge an organism#s ability to maintain homeostasis. Little is understood about how an organism maintai…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to compare easily accessible household products and registered pesticides to compare their efficacy as a pesticide for mosquitoes in a backyar…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This project was to determine if there is a correlation between the dominance of one side of the brain, and the trait of having an extroverted or introverted personality. It…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine whether the attributes of an acorn dictates its propensity for viability. Methods/Materials Twenty-five trials were conducted us…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of this science fair project is to build a simple crystal radio from scratch. Then experiment to see if it works without external power. If it does work, to th…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to see at what height a die that was dropped on a firm textbook became random. Methods/Materials A Mindstorms robotic Lego machine was con…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The Objective of my project was to determine what style of dishwasher, European or American, works better overall. Many think all dishwashers work the same but in fact they…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My objective in this experiment was to develope an equation for the amount of magnetic pulling force that would travel through a steel bar if a magnet is placed on one end.…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals My project is to determine if the speed of wind: high speed, low speed, or no wind, affects how oil disperses through water. Methods/Materials A 20" wide x 39" Tupperware co…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine how the length of wire or coils affect how much weight an electromagnet can lift. I believe that if I change the amount of wire wrapped around…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to investigate the effect of different essential nutrients and their concentrations on the rate of bioremediation. Methods/Materials Obtain 4…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals It is important to remove metal contaminants such as copper from soil. Environment scientists are promoting phytoremediation of soil due to its low cost and environmental fr…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Distractions have caused many car crashes because people cannot react fast enough when distracted. The objective of this study is to determine if age and distractions affect…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to discover if average people, out of three age groups (adolescent, young adult and middle aged adult), contained the ability to predict a p…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Age progression is known to have adverse affects on the brain, but does it affect all aspects of the brain? With this contemplation, I sought to determine the effect of age…
CSEF · 2012
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective is to find out the effect of age on blood pressure. Methods/Materials Using an automatic blood pressure monitor and cuff (standard and child size), 62 second gr…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective is to study the effects of common airborne pollution on the wavelengths and luminosity of sunlight and its effect in photosynthesis on plants. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2012
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to to find out that which algae species has the most affect on the growth of brine shrimp. Methods/Materials In this experiment, brine shri…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to measure the degree to which a magnet deflects the plasma arc generated by a Tesla Coil (if any deflection occured at all). It was hypothes…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to find how the introduction of on demand oxy-hydrogen produced by an electrolytical cell affected the power output of an internal combu…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My experiment's objective is to determine if a step down DC- DC converter can extend the useful time power can be extracted from supercapacitors. First, I established a base…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Based on the assumption that being overweight is related to lack of knowledge about caloric needs, the purpose of this study was to examine if weight status was related to a…
CSEF · 2012
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective was to learn if the sex of rabbit kits would be affected by breeding during the full moon or new moon phase rather than random dates between the moon phases. M…