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 12421–12450
CSEF · 2007
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective within my experiment was to determine if the Jade plant and the Chrysanthemum are efficient means of filtering the chemical Benzene from an enclosed, controlle…
CSEF · 2007
Product Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine which type of candle out of beeswax, paraffin, and soy would burn for the longest amount of time and produce the most light. Met…
CSEF · 2007
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I am interested in forensics. I wanted to find out if DNA might be more difficult to recover from certain fabric types, and I also wanted to see how soaking the fabrics in s…
CSEF · 2007
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to confirm that DNA Fingerprinting can really uncover the perpetrator of a crime. I will see if DNA Fingerprinting can distinguish between ver…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find out what age group of people can recognize shapes the fastest. It would help companies, who are targeting a certain age group, know…
CSEF · 2007
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals This experiment was conducted in order to determine if stains of the freshwater algae, Chlorella pyrenoidosa, could be developed that were increasingly resistant to common c…
CSEF · 2007
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My goal is to produce a successful graft between different species of cacti. Studying grafting can add to research in the field of plant biology, and help expand knowledge i…
CSEF · 2007
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Biomolecules are not rigid; they fluctuate and participate in a variety of motions. A common protein or peptide secondary structure is an alpha-helix. Certain amino acids, l…
CSEF · 2007
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Different types of pollutants can accumulate in parking areas. The purpose of conducting this experiment was to learn if our water is being effected by everday contaminates…
CSEF · 2007
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals Bacteria are very diverse organisms and can live in any environment. They attach to all surfaces and form layers known as biofilm. These biofilm exist in every hydrated syst…
CSEF · 2007
Microbiology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if dermatophytes (fungi that typically grow on skin structures)and yeasts colonize the claw tissue of healthy dogs, including guide dogs used b…
CSEF · 2007
Chemistry Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Curcumin will have, if not a greater, a similar affect upon the dopamine structure as ascorbic acid. Because of curcumin#s aromatic diketone structure it will have similar e…
CSEF · 2007
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this research was to determine which concentration of hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) solution would be optimal for the maximum growth of a plant. Methods/Mate…
CSEF · 2007
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine and exterminate bacteria on household objects. My hypotheses were that the doorknob would have the most bacteria, and the bleach…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if common sea floor materials will decrease wave height. Methods/Materials Making a wave box with plastic cardboards and filling it up with wat…
CSEF · 2007
Mammalian Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI MRI) is the current imaging modality of choice in the acute evaluation of ischemic stroke. Computed tomography perfusion (…
CSEF · 2007
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science fair project is to determine whether the buildings shape, angle, and location has an effect on the Tsunamis damage. Methods/Materials The first thi…
CSEF · 2007
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My goals are to do great at the state science fair and have a fun time doing it. Methods/Materials The materials that i used were:20 drops of Cinnamon oil 20 drops of Orange…
CSEF · 2007
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine the best gear combinations and crank arm lengths for a single speed BMX race bike on a designated course. Methods/Materials A 200…
CSEF · 2007
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Using a KTM 65cc dirtbike, I determined how tire pressure would affect the stop rate of the bike on different surfaces. Methods/Materials I am using my KTM 65cc dirtbike. I…
CSEF · 2007
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine how toxic insecticide is in different types of water conditions. I used one insecticide, 6 different types of test variables of w…
CSEF · 2007
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out if natural substances could be used as a pesticide. Something that would not harm the environment or people, but still be used to control the sp…
CSEF · 2007
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine whether adding a protein supplement(boiled hens egg) to the diet of a granivorous species of bird while it was breeding would influence the de…
CSEF · 2007
Mathematics & Software Second Award
Objectives/Goals The recent successful attack on the widely used hash function, the MD5 Message Digest Algorithm, was a breakthrough in cryptanalysis. Original papers, published in 2004 and…
CSEF · 2007
Microbiology Third Award
Objectives/Goals When studies began showing the concept of antibiotic resistance, researchers felt that the remedy was to give patients lower dosages of antibiotics, as subtherapeutic dosage…
CSEF · 2007
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals What are different temperatures affects on growing sugar crystals? Methods/Materials I made a saturated sugar solution by boiling 9 cups of sugar and 3 cups of water. This w…
CSEF · 2007
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The main objective of this experiment was to further an understanding in protien digestion. Where does GFP get digested within the digestive tract of the C. elegans? I hypot…
CSEF · 2007
Zoology
Objectives/Goals There are many types of birds which travel long distances to places were there is a lot of food and warmer weather. These are called migratory birds. Other birds typically s…
CSEF · 2007
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine if the water quality in a San Diego County lagoon, San Elijo Lagoon, varied according to high or low tide or location. Dinoflage…
CSEF · 2007
Product Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I hypothesized that the cinnamon gum would reduce the most microbes. My problem was which flavor of gum reduced the most bacteria, though both flavors have an even chance to…