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 9481–9510
CSEF · 2011
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals This project was conducted to discover the effects of caffeine and determine if caffeine can be beneficial. Is it better to eliminate caffeine altogether from your diet? If…
CSEF · 2011
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals This project is designed to test pharmacological agents with different effects on humans, namely caffeine, acetaminophen, and pseudoephedrine, on a spider's ability to spin…
CSEF · 2011
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out which sealant sealed a nanocrystalline dye sensitized solar cell the best. Methods/Materials I made eight solar cells from a solar cell kit with…
CSEF · 2011
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Each solute has different molecular properties that make them boil differently (colligative properties of solutions). This experiment is to see the difference between sucros…
CSEF · 2011
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine whether different types of music -- blues, classical, hard rock, and country -- affect plant growth differently. My hypothe…
CSEF · 2011
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Propagation of stem cell lines plays a significant role in stem cell research. The use of mechanical means in passaging hESC colonies is preferred, as the probability of ane…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to test the effects of lateral compression on the folding of the Earth's Crust. The Earth's Crust is made of plates that are in constant m…
CSEF · 2011
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I wanted to understand how the rate of photosynthesis in the aquatic plant Anacharis is affected by different light durations (on/off cycles). I believe that if the rate of…
CSEF · 2011
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine whether magnets and their various magnetic field intensities exert an effect on the rates of regeneration in the flatworm, Dugesia…
CSEF · 2011
Zoology
Objectives/Goals Nerve cells in hydra influence stem cells to form additional nerves. I hypothesized that higher concentrations of neurotransmitters in the environment would simulate a highe…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals Aerosols are liquid or solid colloidal systems suspended in the atmosphere and are crucial in establishing a radiative balance in the atmosphere, yet understanding of aeroso…
CSEF · 2011
Microbiology (General) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the investigation is to find which antiseptic [Mouthwash, Hydrogen Peroxide, or Toothpaste] inhibits oral bacterial growth most effectively. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2011
Plant Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my science project was to compare the growth characteristics of plasma-treated plant seeds. A plasma is an ionized gas that consists of ions (positive or ne…
CSEF · 2011
Pharmacology/ Toxicology First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to learn if tasty levels of salt harm the health of mature Drosophila melanogaster. This was tested through cold stress and lifespan tests.…
CSEF · 2011
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals While researching the theory and mechanics of steric hindrance, I noticed that every example and description I saw for steric hindrance had to do with SN2 reactions. This le…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals This is an experiment designed to investigate the effects of texting on driving performance, as measured by the mean time necessary to complete a 2.1 mile course using the d…
CSEF · 2011
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine what type of shopping carts carry more bacteria; grocery stores or children toys stores. Methods/Materials Fifteen shopping carts where tested t…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals We plan to effectively harvest oil from an aquatic environment by synthesizing a ferrofluid. We will achieve this goal by synthesizing ferrofluid, a liquid that is magnetize…
CSEF · 2011
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The wind turbines of today, while somewhat environmentally friendly, have many key problems that make them inefficient and sometimes dangerous. My objective was to test Niko…
CSEF · 2011
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Every year, almost 7000 of the 110,000 organ transplant candidates in the U.S. die while on a waiting list. Tissue engineering has great potential to satisfy the need for re…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The Gauss Cradle uses the concepts demonstrated in both Newton#s Cradle and Gauss Rifle to isolate the magnetic potential energy and measure the maximum amount of energy tha…
CSEF · 2011
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine saturated fat content in different cooking oils. Methods/Materials Materials- Cooking oils ,stove , iodine,test tubes,water, measuring sppons,thermometer,a big…
CSEF · 2011
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if; Permanent, Demi-permanent, or natural(Henna)hair dye has a more damaging effect on the strength and stretch of hair. Methods/Materials I used f…
CSEF · 2011
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to identify the side of a standard youth football helmet and a standard youth baseball helmet that most and least effectively protected the bra…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals With the development of cell phones and other small devices that we carry with us has come the problem of keeping their batteries charged. It would be wonderful if people co…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to test the analytical MHD propulsion theory. The theory states that thrust will increase linearly with current and magnetic field strengt…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals This research tests the impact of toxins on the filtering abilities of bay mussels and the growth of brine shrimp.The bay mussel feeds on phytoplankton and does so by filter…
CSEF · 2011
Plant Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals While watering the yard, I noticed the leaves beneath an African Sumac tree foamed up whenever water hit them. This made me wonder about the leaves of that tree. I did some…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The project was test how different liquids change sound energy into electrical energy. It was thought that the liquid with the highest acidity levels would produce the highe…
CSEF · 2011
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science fair project was to find the leading cause(s) of lung cancer in non-smokers. Methods/Materials Using the website, Surveymokey.com, I created a surv…