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 10021–10050
CSEF · 2010
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals To test the effects of a horizontal movement applied to a normal wall and compare it to a more resistant shear wall. Methods/Materials Two walls built out of wood; one shear…
CSEF · 2010
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The project, How Sweet It Is: Ants and Sugar Experiment, is a scientific experiment that determines if ants, in their natural habitat, can tell the difference between real a…
CSEF · 2010
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Reaction rate is what determines when bombs go off, and how we digest food. But can you change the speed it occurs? In order to find this out, I took two possible factors, p…
CSEF · 2010
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find the most and least probable rolls in Yahtzee. With this information, I can use statistics to increase my chances of winning. Methods/Materials I use…
CSEF · 2010
Plant Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to document the different rates at which the two generations of plants grew to determine if the salt percent threshold affects it next gen…
CSEF · 2010
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals A Wind Turbine is a powerful machine that plays a big deal in helping our environment during this type of economy today. And what powers a Turbine? A Wind Generator. Using a…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine whether there are more and larger intertidal invertebrates on a remote island far from human impacts compared to coastal areas accessible to hu…
CSEF · 2010
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals Lung cancer is the main cause of cancer death in the world, causing ~1.2 million to die annually. 90% of lung cancers are related to tobacco smoking; Furthermore, nicotine c…
CSEF · 2010
Zoology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our experiment is to identify the infection patterns of the Wolbachia bacteria in arthropods through DNA analysis in order to better understand the proliferat…
CSEF · 2010
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Research was conducted to develop a novel three-part approach of immunotargeted quantum dots for Alzheimer's diagnosis and treatment. The system was composed of the primary…
CSEF · 2010
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to measure the signal strength and data transfer rate for a household wireless computer network set up with an Apple WiFi (Airport) router. I w…
CSEF · 2010
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to discover the best design and position for a reflector to help boost the efficiency and cost effectiveness of solar panels. This objective was de…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Air pollution is without a doubt one of the gravest environmental threats the world is facing today in terms of its sheer toll on human lives. Each year an estimated 70,000…
CSEF · 2010
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals This investigation aimed to examine the relationship between the amount of growth of mold on a piece of paper and the pH of the water used to saturate the paper. Specificall…
CSEF · 2010
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The effect of fifteen different metal-chelate complexes (Al3+, Ca2+, Mg2+, Mn2+ and Zn2+ with EDTA, DTPA, and NTA) on peroxidase activity was studied. The effect of molecula…
CSEF · 2010
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to compare the effects of various environments on the contamination level of different coins. This is a second year study, I am furthering my in…
CSEF · 2010
Microbiology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of the study was to investigate bacteria found on oil spots by examining the effect of the presence of motor oil on the microbes and eventually determine if th…
CSEF · 2010
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals Hypotheses-Clear glass will have the least amount of airborne bacteria. It has the lowest amount of UV light blockage, lets the most UV light in and kills the bacteria. Lami…
CSEF · 2010
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Determining which cooking method will retain the most Vitamin C in broccoli. Methods/Materials Dilute Lugols iodine 1:10 in distilled water for iodine titration solution. Ma…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The study seeks to investigate how effective glutathione is in preventing the over production of melanin thereby lightening the color of the skin. It also tried to determine…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the effectiveness of natural pesticides in controlling leaf gall aphid development. Methods/Materials 250 leaves with galls from poplar cottonw…
CSEF · 2010
Toxicology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I wanted to determine which automotive fluids are the most and least harmful to our environment. Methods/Materials Three African Dwarf frog eggs were placed into each compar…
CSEF · 2010
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective for this project was to determain what effects nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium had on foloiage. I thought that the plants would grow faster because of the n…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals While walking along the shoreline of a beach, does it ever come to mind what it is you are walking on? Of course, it is sand; but what is it made out of and where did it com…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This study seeks to investigate the effects of consuming large amounts of carbonated drinks in terms of muscle-related problems like hypokalaemia, a condition in which the c…
CSEF · 2010
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals In my project, I wanted to determine if different types of vegetables and their food preservations would affect the amount of gas released. I believe that the canned vegetab…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To find out where the pollution is coming from, how the environmental factors such as wind and lunar cycle contribute to the spread of beach pollution, and what the major ti…
CSEF · 2010
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project investigated how different frequencies were transmitted through different materials. Noise reduction is important in building materials and also for worker expo…
CSEF · 2010
Electronics & Electromagnetics Third Award
Objectives/Goals Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are currently increasing in terms of application to lighting and electronic devices. However, it has been noted that LED efficiency is inconsist…
CSEF · 2010
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goals of this project were to determine a) whether Copper-induced oxidation of Bilirubin leads to the bluish black pigment noted in Pigmented Gallstones in patients with…