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CSEF projects, 2002–2026

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.

Years

Category breakdown

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.

Projects

17387 projects · showing 1261–1290

CSEF · 2023

Colorful Chromatography

Chemistry Honorable_mention Award

Chromatography is a technique used to break down mixtures into their components. Based on polarity, the components of mixtures travel different lengths on chromatography paper, so the object…

CSEF · 2023

Crying over Spilled Water

Chemistry Third Award

Most individuals interact with water and paper on a day-to-day basis. So people often have a chance of spilling water on papers. The goal of this project is to design a cheap piece of paper…

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