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 11551–11580
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Title & Purpose of Exhibit: Corn, Cornstalk, Bamboo, or Sugar Cane? The theme of this exhibit is ethanol production using different materials. Ethanol is alcohol that is pro…
CSEF · 2008
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Corrosion damage is very expensive destroying billions of dollars of equipment and structures in the US alone, each year. Applying protective coatings that significantly red…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals For my science fair I wanted to test how I could make kids eat more healthy foods. My objective was to determine if children would eat more healthy food if it were packaged…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find out if age was a factor in how people adapted. Specifically, I wanted to find out if age affected a person's ability to adapt to a computer mouse that inver…
CSEF · 2008
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My goal is to prove that Crassulacean acid metabolism plants give off more humidity at night then at day. Methods/Materials Materials: Ten Jade plants, Four plastic boxes, X…
CSEF · 2008
Mammalian Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine whether crossed hand-eye dominance has an effect on free-throw shooting. Methods/Materials I received the help of three subject groups with diffe…
CSEF · 2008
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see which mineral type displayed the greatest piezoelectric effect. This can be discovered by measuring the amount of electrical displacement (voltage) a…
CSEF · 2008
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To design a new growing technique to speed up the growth of bulb plants around the world and help solve the world hunger problem by growing vegetables at a faster rate. Meth…
CSEF · 2008
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project, Cytoplasmic Streaming The Effect of an Electromagnetic Field, is to see if an electromagnetic field (EMF) could either slow or quicken the proce…
CSEF · 2008
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals My experiment was to figure out if different types of wood resist mold growth. My hypothesis was white wood will resist the growth of mold the best. For my procedure I soak…
CSEF · 2008
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The object is to learn and determine how various substances, such as; epinephrine, caffeine, aspirin, and ibuprofen affect the heart rate of the crustacean-like animals, dap…
CSEF · 2008
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals My father is a police officer so I know that there are a lot of law suits that claim a Taser can do serious or lasting harm to a person. Some lawsuits claim that a Taser dis…
CSEF · 2008
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals "Deciphering Zea mays" tests the viability of the Chi-Square Test in determining the genotypes and respective alleles of organisms whose phenotypes are known but genotypes a…
CSEF · 2008
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Objective: The objective of this project was to see if pressure treated and fire treated wood were as sturdy as untreated wood and to determine whether chemically treated wo…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find out if age, gender, or occupation matter in distinguishing a candy from a non-edible (medication, rock, Lego, mothball). I hypothesized that the old…
CSEF · 2008
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals I am concerned about harmful effects of global warming due to our use of gas-powered cars. I conducted this experiment because I was curious to find which hour of the day a…
CSEF · 2008
Microbiology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is first, to determine species of dermatophytes most likely to colonize the canine claw, and second, to explore how the percentage of dermat…
CSEF · 2008
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Laser communication has many advantages over wired devices. Lasers can carry messages near the speed of light with little interference whereas electrical signals travel at 6…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine how quickly different pollutants would travel through different soils Methods/Materials I Collected Clay Loam, Sand, and backyard Soil (a mixture…
CSEF · 2008
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine if i can use household materials to neutralize a toxic spill (pesticide spill) Can I add a liquid to the pesticide to make it a safe environment…
CSEF · 2008
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my current project is to determine if the expression of the longevity-related SIR2 gene is a factor in the increased life-span of Drosophila Melanogaster bred…
CSEF · 2008
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to compare two types of rail gun designs, series augmented and parallel augmented, and determine which was best at increasing the speed of a pr…
CSEF · 2008
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if mice that are placed in different environmental conditions (light, dark) (regular feeding times) will have an effect on their growth rate. Met…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of the project was to determine, through computer simulation, which strategy performed best on average against all other strategies in the Iterated Prisoner#s Dilem…
CSEF · 2008
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if different fabrics would inhibit bacteria from getting to the skin. I simulated a sneeze onto different types of fabrics. (clothing) Methods/Ma…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I am determining how toxic fertilizers are to the environment. I am simulating run-off water that would travel into the streams and effect the aquatic environment by testing…
CSEF · 2008
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out if the pH of filtered water affected seed germination. Methods/Materials I adjusted filtered water to pH 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6.5, 7, 8, and 9, and us…
CSEF · 2008
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to discover if different amounts of coats of a mixture of mosquito repellent and paint repel different amounts of mosquitoes. I would like to…
CSEF · 2008
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals To determine the farthest distance a catapult can propel a sphere. Methods/Materials Eleven spheres of differing mass and density were tested in a custom built catapult. Sph…
CSEF · 2008
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Extracting DNA is the first step in testing GMOs or genetically modified organisms. My experiment#s goal was to test the method of home-based DNA extraction by comparing the…