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 12061–12090
CSEF · 2008
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals Many cookbooks and recipes state that adding acids such as vinegar to foods will stop harmful bacterial growth. I decided to test this idea by determining the ability of the…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine how the level of nitrate (NO3-), a common pollutant coming mainly from fertilizers, varied in different locations along Los Tranco…
CSEF · 2008
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the effect of shape on aerodynamic drag as measured in a homemade wind tunnel. After completing the first two years of work on the experiment (…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the research was to determine how different types of soil particles, along with varying levels of saturation and slope angles, affect slope stability and the…
CSEF · 2008
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to find the effect of solutes on drag in an aqueous solution. Methods/Materials Materials used include: 5.0L of 0.5M Sucrose solution, 0.5M S…
CSEF · 2008
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to study the effect of electrolyte sports drinks on seventh grade students by measuring blood pressure and heart rate. It was predicted that…
CSEF · 2008
Chemistry First Award
Objectives/Goals To determine the effect of steel exposure in comparison to corrosion rates in simulation of an extreme oil field environment. Methods/Materials Five carbon steel corrosion c…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to find out if the surface area and volume of a tide pool affect the temperature and pH and how much the temperature and pH of a tide pool ch…
CSEF · 2008
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells are located outside the neuro-sensory retina that nourishes photoreceptor cells in the human eye. Transformed RPE plays an important r…
CSEF · 2008
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine the optimal temperature and time to seal a bag and achieve the maximum strength. Methods/Materials This experiment tests differe…
CSEF · 2008
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the project is to determine how much of a difference a topical contaminant will make on blood glucose levels.A contaminant with higher sugar content will chan…
CSEF · 2008
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research was to compare the difference in heart rate change between an eyes open and an eyes closed period for Transcendental Meditators and non-meditato…
CSEF · 2008
Applied Mechanics & Structures First Award
Objectives/Goals This project will find the effect of varied string tension on the coefficient of restitution for tennis ball and racquet collision. The hypothesis is that if the string tens…
CSEF · 2008
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out if adding vitamins, minerals, and iron to a sugar solution fermented by yeast would increase ethanol production. I thought that the container wi…
CSEF · 2008
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out if varying water quantity in constructed wetlands will affect the methane emissions from them. Methods/Materials 6 plastic containers, 36 L of s…
CSEF · 2008
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to learn which one of six different chocolate brands results in handmade molded candies with the glossiest surface. Methods/Materials Si…
CSEF · 2008
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the effect of a fatty acid synthase inhibitor on multi-drug resistant ovarian cancer cells compared to drug sensitive ovarian cancer cells. Hyp…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals This project investigates improved computer algorithms to find good chess moves and limit the time spent examining poor moves, more specifically, an algorithm called alpha-b…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals It has been found that various breathing techniques have increased immune system functioning, lowered depression, and changed in metabolism, heart rate, etc, basically comba…
CSEF · 2008
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to find a correlation between increasing the carbon dioxide levels that the Zonal Geranium Plant is exposed to and how that affects the…
CSEF · 2008
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Over the past many years, scientists have discovered that the concentration of carbon dioxide has been growing drastically since the Industrial Revolution. Some scientists,…
CSEF · 2008
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine how environmental nitrite levels impact the reproductive success of purple sea urchins. The hypothesis of this experiment was…
CSEF · 2008
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals I studied the capacity of a dry cell battery to survive at extreme temperatures, in particular, that of Mars, -120 degrees Celsius, the North Pole, -60 C, the Mojave Desert,…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my science project is to determine if boys or girls have better short-term memory. Methods/Materials 1. Make Observations: I observed through my classes tha…
CSEF · 2008
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals There are nocosomial infectious bacteria like the Staphylococcus Aureus which no know antibiotics kill. It would be crucial to find an alternative use of potential killer fo…
CSEF · 2008
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals By conducting this experiment I am trying to find the average strengths of five different colors of hair after being treated with the highlighting solution. These hairs incl…
CSEF · 2008
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The goal of my experiment was to find out which variable of different types of light, temperatures, and starting volume affected the amount of yeast enzyme activity. Methods…
CSEF · 2008
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals In this experiment, I tested fifteen basil plants to see if watering them with microwaved water had any effect on their growth. This question is important because if the mic…
CSEF · 2008
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine the effects of ocean acidification (a process in which waters have lowered pHs and higher CO(2) concentration) on purple sea urch…
CSEF · 2008
Plant Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals With the growing demand on a limited water supply, the use of recycled water for irrigation offers both a long term sustainable approach as well as a cost effective plan. Ho…