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 10771–10800
CSEF · 2009
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My experiment is designed to find how much electromagnetic radiation is emitted by each of four ways (using the phone directly, on speakerphone, with a plug-in headset, or w…
CSEF · 2009
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine what the relationship is between molecule size and pigment of food coloring dyes. Methods/Materials An electrophoresis chamber was constructed,…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals My experiment was designed to test whether vegetation reduces the number of embers hitting or entering a house during wildfire. My experiment tested two hypotheses: Do trees…
CSEF · 2009
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My 2008 #Energy Trap# project studied solar ponds as an energy collector and storage system combined. I effectively proved that by creating salinity gradient body of water w…
CSEF · 2009
Plant Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which manure, chicken, donkey, goat, horse, pheasant, or sheep, has the greatest effect on radishes' biomass. Methods/Materials Each type of ma…
CSEF · 2009
Zoology
Objectives/Goals Objective: To determine if changing environmental conditions influences the migratory behavior of ghost shrimp. Methods/Materials Methods: I studied the migratory behavior o…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment is to learn about enzymes and what they do in the human body. Methods/Materials Materials 1. Apple sauce. 2.Balance for weighing the apple sauce…
CSEF · 2009
Mammalian Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The object is to determine if horses are magnetically oriented animals. Methods/Materials To study to prove the hypothesis, Google Earth satellite images were collected and…
CSEF · 2009
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals I will collect and isolate samples from horses showing Equine White Line Disease symptoms then use DNA analysis identify Scedosporium ssp. as a causal microbe. Methods/Mater…
CSEF · 2009
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to test the level of Escherichia coli (E. coli) in the local creeks of Santa Rosa and determine if the levels change according to where the…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our experimentation was to find the source of ethanol, cellulosic or non-cellulosic, that provided the greatest yield of ethanol content after fermentation. V…
CSEF · 2009
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether phosphate removal (via formation of a patina on iron wool) is significant enough to limit an algal bloom and thereby serve as a potenti…
CSEF · 2009
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to test for impurities and contaminants of various water sources in order to perhaps prove that bottled water does have more contaminants th…
CSEF · 2009
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals This project investigates the effect of incandescent light bulb color upon the evaporating rate of rubbing alcohol. In my experiment, I took an incandescent light bulb, turn…
CSEF · 2009
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals My project tests the antibacterial effect of common household substances such as vinegar, garlic, ginger, and a mixture of honey and lemon juice by studying their effect on…
CSEF · 2009
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to learn more about the role that different generations of cephalosporin type antibiotics play in killing or preventing the growth of bacterial pathogens in the hum…
CSEF · 2009
Toxicology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine the toxicity rate of household liquid cleaning projects by timing the time of death of gryllus assimilis (field crickets). I s…
CSEF · 2009
Toxicology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Pampas Grass, Cortaderia selloana, is an invasive plant originally from South America. It is causing problems along the California coast, including areas of coastal sage scr…
CSEF · 2009
Zoology First Award
Objectives/Goals During the summer, I read an article in a magazine regarding our plant community, the most compromised plant community in the nation, coastal sage scrub. The article stated…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals There is currently an enormous forensic DNA backlog, meaning a large number of DNA samples from criminals have not been analyzed to create DNA profiles and entered into the…
CSEF · 2009
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the critical freeze period for an orange. The goal is to identify the material that prevents an orange from freezing for the critical freeze pe…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine if ripe fruit yields the most extractable DNA utilizing underripe, ripe and overripe bananas, kiwis and strawberries. Methods/Ma…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The main objective of the experiment was to observe if the common household wastes, such as apple and banana peelings, were suitable to be used as another source of producin…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals How does the processing of strawberries affect the amount of DNA extracted? Methods/Materials Four batches of strawberries were treated differently prior to extracting DNA:…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find out which facial features help the most in face recognition. Methods/Materials In the initial procedure, respondents had to remember the names and f…
CSEF · 2009
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine whether the area of an object has an effect on its terminal velocity. Methods/Materials To test this, I built a wind tunnel out of…
CSEF · 2009
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of our project was to see how different amounts of rotation might differently affect the growth of plants. We placed Brassica rapa plants on a turntable for va…
CSEF · 2009
Applied Mechanics & Structures Third Award
Objectives/Goals Goals: This project#s goal is to modify a mass manufactured (barrel-style) poultry feeder in order to raise the level of food in the feeder#s trough area to three centimeter…
CSEF · 2009
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The original hypothesis had stated that 5% more fat would lead to a higher caloric content. The researcher had hoped to prove this through experimentation. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2009
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals In order to measure the angles of leaves in rotation around a stem I visited the Fullerton Arboretum with my father and sister. We identified a variety of plants, and took p…