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 12691–12720
CSEF · 2007
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals My project involves the testing and research of wind turbine design and the electricity it generates. I am interested in this subject area because there has been much discus…
CSEF · 2007
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine how different sources of water affect lima bean plant growth. The hypothesis states that lima bean seeds watered with marsh water will produce…
CSEF · 2007
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals We had two objectives: First we wanted to determine how plant growth is affected by varying degrees of acid soil. Our second objective was to determine what pH level will ne…
CSEF · 2007
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to see if I could show that increasing the amount of weight of books placed in a student's backpack would increase the amount of pressure placed on the student's lo…
CSEF · 2007
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine which eye color will be dominant when you cross a sex-linked recessive white-eyed (w) Drosophila melanogaster with an autosomal r…
CSEF · 2007
Electronics & Electromagnetics Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective for my project is to provide an alternative method for wireless data transmissions to the radio waves that are currently being used. People are becoming more c…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to learn about the art of juggling. Especially in comparison to other sports, juggling is relatively unexplored, and this project was desig…
CSEF · 2007
Mammalian Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals Human infants are not born with the ability to move their fingers independently or rotate the thumb so that the pad of the thumb is opposed to the pad of the index finger. F…
CSEF · 2007
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Objective: The objective of the experiment was to figure out which insulator will keep bottles of water the hottest the longest and coldest the longest. Hypothesis: It was p…
CSEF · 2007
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals This study was on the kinetics of the zinc-copper voltaic cell. The goal was to determine the order of the reaction with respect to Cu2+ concentration, which was ultimately…
CSEF · 2007
Physics & Astronomy First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to laser cool and trap rubidium-87 atoms. I wanted to do this in a short amount of time and with a low cost. Obtaining results would assist i…
CSEF · 2007
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals There has been a push to make more environmentally safe products, such as solder. It is unknown if non-lead based solders have better or worse mechanical properties in compa…
CSEF · 2007
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals In 1978 paint containing > 0.06% lead was banned but there were still old paint stocks available and being used. EPA#s action level for lead is 0.5 % by wt. ( 5000 m/kg) for…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals A reason I am doing this experiment is because left handed people have learned to adapt to right handed products, writing styles, and even their way of life. Most left hande…
CSEF · 2007
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out if motor oil slows the evaporation of water in order to conserve water in field agricultural operations. Methods/Materials Fill 6 cups of water…
CSEF · 2007
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of my science fair project was to mathematically calculate whether or not the #Monty Hall Theory# is applicable to the game show #Deal or No Deal.# My hypothesis wa…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I would like to know how well the average person can detect lying. Methods/Materials I recorded four people telling stories that were either lies or the truth and had 47 oth…
CSEF · 2007
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals My project is to determine which has more bacteria living on it: a store bathroom door handle, a cell phone mouthpiece, or the bottom of a woman's purse. My hypothesis is th…
CSEF · 2007
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine what dimensions in the geometry of a wing, such as angle of attack, airfoil shape, aspect ratio, sweep angle, would achieve high…
CSEF · 2007
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine which light bulb; incandescent, halogen, or fluorescent, provides the most light or brightness with the same amount of wattage…
CSEF · 2007
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My project was meant to see if the density of a liquid inside a narrow-necked bottle would affect the pitch created when it was blown into. Methods/Materials To experiment I…
CSEF · 2007
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to find if plants will survive in a Martian Soil with the aid of fertilizer and plant supplements or not. My hypothesis is that if a Martia…
CSEF · 2007
Product Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals We both play sports and spend a lot of money on sports apparel. We came up with this project to see what sports material allows a body to cool down the fastest. Methods/Mate…
CSEF · 2007
Applied Mechanics & Structures Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine if the noise produced by helicopter rotor blades can be reduced by using low aspect ratio rotor blades with winglets. It was hypo…
CSEF · 2007
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to take a tiny burst of energy to start our magnetic based generator that would be able to create a greater amount of energy than we began with.…
CSEF · 2007
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine the effects of dampening due to fluid viscosity (using water, air, and motor oil as test fluids) and distance from an electromag…
CSEF · 2007
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the effect of temperature on the strength of a magnet. Methods/Materials 6 magnets of identical size and shape were placed at room temperature(…
CSEF · 2007
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment is to determine if magnetism affects the growth of plants. Methods/Materials The following materials were used: twenty 2000 gauss magnets, wo…
CSEF · 2007
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My experiment is to make a paper airplane that can rival some of the best paper airplanes. To accomplish this, I will first gain an understanding of how real planes work, an…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to find out whether males or females have a better ability to interpret facial expressions so I can prove my hypothesis that females do interpr…