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 9031–9060
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Science Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The North Pacific Central Gyre (NPCG) is a key area of interest for investigating the effects of plastic debris on the lives of marine organisms because much of this debris…
CSEF · 2011
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if feeding my chickens selenium-enriched mustard meal would significantly increase the amount of available selenium in the hen's eggs when comp…
CSEF · 2011
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Alzheimer's disease is a progressive brain disorder that is ultimately fatal, and it has become the sixth leading cause of death. It is caused by the the accumulation of pla…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software Third Award
Objectives/Goals To study how tumor growth are affected by cell compressibility, motility and contact inhibition. Methods/Materials I created a mathematical model and computer simulation of…
CSEF · 2011
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Underlying severe complications of diabetes mellitus (DM) is impaired neovasculogenesis. Vasculogenesis (wound healing) involves recruitment of progenitor cell populations,…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy Third Award
Objectives/Goals Glass-Ceramics are a commonly used material, found in for example mugs and stove tops. A new machining method is the Direct-Write method: a stationary pulsed UV laser and a…
CSEF · 2011
Zoology First Award
Objectives/Goals Larval California spiny lobsters, Panulirus interruptus, were reared on 5 different diets to study survivorship and metamorphic development. This species has never been succ…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Our objective is to determine whether abundance of native floral species, and/or floral diversity (Simpson's diversity index), has a significant correlation with mammal sign…
CSEF · 2011
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Antibiotics are becoming less effective as the years go by (American College of Physicians.) Increased resistance , not enough antibiotics, side effects, and effects on reco…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To perceive the lightnesses of surfaces, the brain not only takes their luminances into account but also the scene context. The "checkershadow illusion" probes such contextu…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals There have been several problems with restoring native vegetation to the San Dieguito Lagoon. We believed that the salinity of the soil had an effect on the type of growth w…
CSEF · 2011
Microbiology (General) Third Award
Objectives/Goals Triclosan is an antibacterial and antifungal agent commonly used in consumer products such as soap. It exhibits antibiotic characteristics, and is currently under FDA review…
CSEF · 2011
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals My experiment investigated the effectiveness of the most commonly applied modifications to structures to reduce shaking, provoked by the compressing and expanding motion of…
CSEF · 2011
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which eggs have the highest resiliency to bacteria, and which common bacterial environments harbor the most potentially harmful bacteria. Metho…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if playing music versus not playing music prior to an IQ test affected an individual's score on it, and if so, if there was any detectable vari…
CSEF · 2011
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The goal of the project was to determine how many electrolytes different drinks had, and then compare them. The conductance (electrolytes) of distilled water, tap water, ora…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Objective: The purpose of my project is to find out whether or not an electric discharge will disrupt an electrostatic field. Also, I wanted to find the correlation between…
CSEF · 2011
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine how the natural electric charge present in ordinary water can be used to generate static electricity. Methods/Materials I constr…
CSEF · 2011
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to compare power generated from a solar cell and wind turbine to determine which is the better alternative for the use in my community, gi…
CSEF · 2011
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which battery and motor combination will be the most efficient. Methods/Materials In my project, I tested five batteries and four motors. I did…
CSEF · 2011
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if young people react to a light signal faster after drinking an energy drink. Methods/Materials Twenty-three students, aged 12-14, are placed…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Question: What fruit or vegetable is the best conductor of electricity? The avocado will be the best conductor of electricity because of the high amount of iron. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2011
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Catalase is a very common enzyme found in most animal and plant cells. It speeds up the breakdown of hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen. I was curious if I could extrac…
CSEF · 2011
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals To test the enzyme count in raw and cooked vegetables as a means to determine which of the two is healthier for human consumption. Methods/Materials 1. Five 100 mL beakers w…
CSEF · 2011
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My goal was to evaluate the reaction rate of enzyme catalyzed reactions such as the breakdown of hydrogen peroxide into oxygen and water(2H202------>H20+02) under different…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals To test the effects that temperature changes have at contributing to the erosion of rocks. Methods/Materials 5 pairs of rocks. One of each pair will be frozen and then boile…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The Escondido Creek is surrounded by semi-urban development and agriculture. My hypothesis was that coliforms, including E. coli, from the horse barns nearby might be presen…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals I chose to do a project on viscosity. My question was #Does temperature affect the viscosity of a liquid?# My hypothesis was that a hot fluid would be less viscous than a co…
CSEF · 2011
Microbiology (General) First Award
Objectives/Goals The fungus Candida albicans can enter the bloodstream in immunocompromised patients, infecting most organs of the body and resulting in disseminated candidiasis, which has a…
CSEF · 2011
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The declined fossil fuel availability and carbon dioxide induced global warming prompt the research of alternative energy sources. Hydrogen gas is an environmentally clean s…