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 8611–8640
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to investigate the effect of sleep deprivation on students' ability to discern facial emotions. Previous research has shown contradictory res…
CSEF · 2012
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The goal of my experiment is to help gardeners find a specific flower color that will attract more ladybugs. By having this information gardeners will know how to fight off…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I became interested in this project when I was growing roses with my mom last summer. The roses my mother planted grew strong and healthy, but the ones I grew were frail and…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals This experiment tests the effect of varying concentrations of titanium dioxide (TiO2) on the efficiency of photovoltaic solar cells. Though this chemical has shown to improv…
CSEF · 2012
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to see how water temperature affects goldfish respiration. My hypothesis was that when fish are put in warmer water their breathing speeds up and…
CSEF · 2012
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine the effect of water temperature on a surfactant's ability to decrease the surface tension of water. Methods/Materials Materials for the homema…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find out the effect of weight and shape on buoyancy. Methods/Materials Modeling clay was shaped into three different weights and four different shapes (s…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to see the effects off weight on a projectile, in this case, the arrow. It determines how random archery really is, and the effect of weight o…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The Effect of Weight on LEGO Brick Bonds was designed to test the structural support of LEGO bricks, which can be paralleled to actual brick bonds used for brickwork buildin…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment was to determine which of the following wine bottle closures would deliver the greatest dissolved oxygen level in wine over a 57 day period:…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective was to understand how Linux Version 1.0 Kernel behaved under targeted and random removal, and to see whether Linux Version 1.0 Kernel behaved more like the SF o…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals This project aimed to observe how 1,3,7 trimethylxanthine affects the population size of D. Melanogaster. It also aimed to observe what percent of caffeine; five, ten, or fo…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine if rising temperatures in waterways due to climate change could impact fish egg viability when exposed to estrogen, a conta…
CSEF · 2012
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a bacteria that injects its own DNA into plant cells causing cancerous tumors to grow. The objective of my experiment was to see if antioxidants…
CSEF · 2012
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Dietary restriction has been shown to extend lifespan and reduce age related diseases. However, new research suggests that dietary composition may also effect lifespan. Spec…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my study is to determine whether the Indian herb, curcumin, delays the degradation of neurons demonstrated by the decline in the conditioned response of the f…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Objective: The purpose of my science fair project was to investigate which age of paint, casein paint, tempera paint, Renaissance paint, or modern oil paint, would sustain i…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment, based on the Dual-Coding theory, was designed to investigate the effects of different learning modalities such as auditory, visual, and visual with auditory…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I have always doodled in class. I came across an article about a test involving adults, half of whom were told to doodle while listening to a telephone conversation. Later,…
CSEF · 2012
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to measure the decrease in efficiency of solar panels over several weeks or months due to dust buildup, in order to determine how often…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to answer the following question. Will the exposure of electromagnetic fields(EMF) on plants effect their overall growth? It was hypothesi…
CSEF · 2012
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Every year, more than 475,000 structures are burned down due to fire. The purpose of this experiment is to create an affordable and practical flame retardant paint. Once thi…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Canine acne (furunculosis) is a common problem among short-coated dogs. It is usually found on the animal#s chin due to contact with bacteria around the food bowl. Veterinar…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to explore the possible effects that ethanol, at varying concentrations, may have on the germination rates of different vegetables. I believe that as the concentrat…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals This experiment is designed to test whether changing the gases inside of the heating box will affect the amount of the time needed to heat the water to a given temperature.…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the effects of IAA and IBA, two plant hormones, on growth in Laccaria bicolor, a fungus that is involved in mycorrhizal relationships with plan…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project aims to analyze urban winds to harness wind power. Methods/Materials Two types of experiments were conducted regarding wind patterns. Data was collected from 11…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Mycorrhizae is a natural fungus that increases the surface area of the roots. This makes hard-to-capture nutrients available to plants, allowing them to be bigger, and healt…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This project focuses on the effects of increasing atmospheric CO2 and decreasing pH on the development and calcification of larval red abalone shells. Methods/Materials Fema…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to measure the amount of DNA extracted from organic and nonorganic carrots (Daucus carota), raspberries (Rubus ideaeis), and spinach (Spi…