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 8761–8790
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals To extract usable energy from ocean waves and find out which types of waves will create more energy. Methods/Materials Wood, Plastic Sheeting, Copper Wire, Neodymium Magnets…
CSEF · 2012
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to find out if hermit crabs used the Earth's magnetic field to navigate. I hypothesized that hermit crabs navigated using the Earth's magnetic…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My goal is to recommend the web browser that will change your Internet experience by testing Safari, Google Chrome, and Firefox using online webpage stopwatch to find out wh…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Our goal was to test three different sail shapes, and find out which one is most effective at harnessing wind. Methods/Materials We made a cart out of K'nex building pieces,…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Objective: The objective of my experiment is to determine which cleans hands better, wiping hands with hand sanitizer or washing hands with soap and water. Hypothesis: I bel…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This study tested if gender, piano playing, use of T.V. use of the computer, or use of texting affects how a person multitasks. Methods/Materials Each test subject filled ou…
CSEF · 2012
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals This study examined the effect of sight and head position on a skater's dizziness after a scratch spin. The goal was to determine what strategies people could utilize to les…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective to my project is to determine if students exposed to positive subliminal messages in their instruction will show a higher growth in scores on timed multiplicat…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if saturating hydrophobic soil with an alkaline or acidic solution will help with water percolation. My goal is to find a way to r…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to discover if Natural Environment Teaching (NET) is more effective than traditional Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT) methods used to educate ch…
CSEF · 2012
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The initial idea and purpose of this project was to learn what affects windmills, and possibly make a discovery that could change the ways windmills produce power. Methods/M…
CSEF · 2012
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My science project was to determine whether a solar panel or a wind generator would produce the most sustainable energy for Escondido, in Southern California, to daily charg…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals My goal for this project was to test the strength of three angular shapes - triangles, squares and rectangles. I had read that triangles are the strongest shape and I was cu…
CSEF · 2012
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals This experiment examines a possible method to increase the production of alcohol through fermentation with yeast by species competition. This is important because of the inc…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the experiment is to find how much bacteria is in fast food restaurant water and ice. Methods/Materials All samples are melted and materials gathered. The are…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our goal is to possibly get food companies to change the color of the food. For example a potato chip in the color of something unappealing and broccoli in the colors of rai…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals To test and see which of two triboelectric material roller combinations in a Van de Graaff Generator(VDG) that I built generates a larger static field around the sphere of V…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals What technique can agricultural farmers use that is mildly safe and doesn't involve harmful chemicals and pesticides, to enhance their crops? This project demonstrates the e…
CSEF · 2012
Zoology
Objectives/Goals It is important for zooplankton, especially meroplankton, to have a sustainable environment to spawn, reproduce, and develop. Distribution of plankton in the ocean is depend…
CSEF · 2011
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine which of the five natural substances (liquid vitamin C, goldenseal root, Echinacea, oil of oregano, and garlic) would most…
CSEF · 2011
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if the PSI of steam affects the volts transferred into a 1.5 volt light bulb. I believe that the higher amount of steam stored in the pressure…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The problem I am trying to solve is what light bulb can produce the most electricity in a solar cell. The two light bulbs that I have tested are the CFL ( Compact Fluorescen…
CSEF · 2011
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to prove that vegetables grown in an ebb and flow hydroponics system obtain more vitamin c than those grown in a soil medium. Methods/Materials First, I bui…
CSEF · 2011
Plant Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My interest is to determine the paternity of the Brodiaea santarosae in comparison to other related species. In analyzing already published chloroplast sequences I saw that…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The main research question addressed the issue of how the wavelength of a laser pointer (red versus green) affects the diffraction of the laser beam reflecting off a CD vers…
CSEF · 2011
Zoology Second Award
Objectives/Goals When you start raising worms, which food / bedding should you choose? According to many online articles, worms can be fed on many things including paper, coffee and tea. By…
CSEF · 2011
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Increasing the accuracy and the range of specificity of MRI could enhance site-specific imaging and treatment. The most advantageous way to enhance site-specific imaging wou…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Through this chemical engineering project I plan to experiment the effect of the Electrolysis Mediated Fenton Reaction on water borne microbial organisms. The research I con…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine if light, passing through a prism filled with water refracts more when the density of the water inside of a prism is increased. I believe that…
CSEF · 2011
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project had two main objectives. The first objective was to determine how effective some natural products are against bacteria. I used Coconut oil, Cayenne Pepper, Vinega…