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 12931–12960
CSEF · 2007
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to see if different concentrations of CO2 will help or kill the bacteria. This is important when seeing if the cyanobacteria will help absorb…
CSEF · 2007
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Plants need light to perform photosynthesis and to grow. Do different colors of light lead to different rates of plant growth? Methods/Materials I made a greenhouse with fou…
CSEF · 2007
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to manipulate angle and distance in digital flash photography to prevent or reduce red eye. I hypothesized that angle and distance would both a…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This study examines the effect of driving distractions on the driving performance of adolescents within the Southern Californian region. Methods/Materials Prac: The subject…
CSEF · 2007
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals This experiment attempted to determine the effect of electromagnetic fields on plant growth. Methods/Materials The initial subjects of this experiment were twenty spearmint…
CSEF · 2007
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to observe fire#s effect on the germination of plant seeds from chaparral and riparian habitats. I hypothesized that burned chaparral seeds g…
CSEF · 2007
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine the affect humidity has on how far a baseball travels. Methods/Materials I used a glove my hand could go into and stick through the fish tank s…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Abstract Time is killed, crunched, beaten, made, or wasted. Incentive is likewise as fundamental as time. Incentives and temporal perception influence human behavior tremend…
CSEF · 2007
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Since film boiling generally follows the exponential relationship of decreasing node to node distances for increasing angles of elevation, the effect of increasing the angle…
CSEF · 2007
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals This project determined if lacquer, clear fingernail polish, prevents corrosion or reduces the rate of corrosion on copper, iron, aluminum, and steel. Methods/Materials Four…
CSEF · 2007
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Query: Research has been conducted on the effect of magnetic influence on increasing vigor and germination of seeds. If this effect is observed on seeds, does it also occur…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Experiments were conducted to determine the differences between the sounds made by instruments constructed from different materials. Attempts were made to discover what effe…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals In the present experiment, effect of the Mozart¡#s Sonata and music chosen by individual subjects on short-term word memory is investigated. I hypothesize that more words wi…
CSEF · 2007
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals When humans and livestocks excrete drugs, it enters the sewers and into our streams, affecting the creatures living underwater. The objective of this project is to determine…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment was to investigate the effect of particle size and gradation on the erodibility of soil. Methods/Materials The experiment called for approxim…
CSEF · 2007
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to learn how playing C,E, and B notes affects the duration of the sympathetic vibrations on the C2 string of a piano. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2007
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to determine what common foods contain a substantial amount of protein. I hypothesized that tofu would be the most protein-rich food because…
CSEF · 2007
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To prove that black roads and buldings have an effect on the rise in temperature of our planet. However, the clouds in our atmosphere may cause a cooling effect. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2007
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine if at higher elevations the difference between the temperature of the boiling point of distilled water and salt water changes. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2007
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals This experiment will determine what happens to Oakleaf lettuce (luctuca sativa) when sodium chloride is added into the plants water. It is my hypothesis that the two plant g…
CSEF · 2007
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to test whether or not genetic transformation of the pGLO gene was possible in species of Monera after they were mutated by radiation exposure. By…
CSEF · 2007
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to gain a greater understanding of how amylase breaks down starch. I wanted to learn how our body uses saliva and pancreatic juice to br…
CSEF · 2007
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Exposure to temperature change is known to affect the size of many materials, this test studied whether temperature change had an affect on the tuning of a guitar. The exper…
CSEF · 2007
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to find out whether the change in magnetic fields and diamagnetic materials affects to diamagnetic levitation. Methods/Materials Materials: A…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This study looks at whether the moon's gravitational pull affects the frequency, magnitude, and depths of earthquakes. Methods/Materials The location of the moon at the time…
CSEF · 2007
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My goal was to measure the change in the dissolved oxygen content of a fixed volume of water in a fish tank while varying the number of goldfish therein. Methods/Materials T…
CSEF · 2007
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My experiment tested the transmission of sound through glass. My objective was to determine what thicknesses of double-pane glass would reduce the most sound. Methods/Materi…
CSEF · 2007
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to see which temperature of water would make sea monkeys grow the biggest. The hypothesis was that the 80 degree water would be the most ef…
CSEF · 2007
Applied Mechanics & Structures Third Award
Objectives/Goals The Greek inventor of the catapult, Archimedes, found that wheels increase launch distance of projectiles. He might not have known the physics behind his experiments. I want…
CSEF · 2007
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Since I live in California where earthquakes are common, I decided to look at earthquake effects on the structural integrity of arches make from materials of different flexi…