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 13141–13170
CSEF · 2006
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the aggregation behaviors of the convergent lady beetles by their specific temperature range of the seasonal hibernations. M…
CSEF · 2006
Zoology
Objectives/Goals Do goldfish contain long-term memory capabilities or the ability to remember an event or an occurrence in time? Methods/Materials These were the steps taken to complete my e…
CSEF · 2006
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to see if a garlic extract can prevent Crown Gall in rose plants. This experiment is important to me because if garlic can reduce the sympt…
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine whether the road or the woods caused the most polluting particles in the air. Methods/Materials To collect particle samples,four, 4" x 2" inch pa…
CSEF · 2006
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to investigate whether the pigments in leaves that produced their autumn color are present while the leaves were still green. Methods/Materials T…
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals After completing research on the widespread Crown gall disease, we wished to help find a way to cure the disorder. Therefore, by using common knowledge that garlic is often…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Life changes and daily hassles lead to stress. This longitudinal study tests the hypotheses that stress in first year dental students will negatively affect performance and…
CSEF · 2006
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals To design a replacement electrolyte for the potassium iodide/iodine electrolyte in Grätzel type dye-sensitized photovoltaic cells using simpler materials. Research has shown…
CSEF · 2006
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine if an alternate light source would yield a direct effect in the micro-organisms, Euglena and Pelomyxa Carolinensis. This was det…
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals 1. To reduce the number of trees being cut down to supply people with craft and writing paper. 2. To identify other sources of paper pulp that would not use up any more natu…
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals This experiment was designed to test whether or not certain odorous household items such as vanilla extract, various liquid air fresheners, catnip, hydrogen peroxide, rubbin…
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals We sought to find out if a common food additive deemed safe by the food industry & the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, yet banned in other countries is harmful to the hea…
CSEF · 2006
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to develop a scientific method to accurately measure which washing solution was most effective in cleaning the petroleum off the birds in an…
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if manure from a horse (through a change in the animal's diet), can be used as effectively as steer manure when utilized as plant fertilizer. I b…
CSEF · 2006
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to acquire an understanding of the amphibian species composition and diversity at each of our sites in the San Lorenzo Valley Watershed in…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of this research project is to determine the most accurate techniques in predicting short-term stock market fluctuations by identifying recurring patterns in t…
CSEF · 2006
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to create an environmentally friendly source of renewable energy. The goal is to turn discarded sawdust, which is 42% cellulose by mass, int…
CSEF · 2006
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals One of the most interesting applications of magnetism is its ability to accelerate objects at tremendous speeds through the use of linear accelerators. In addition to applic…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals This project aims to solve the problem in computational seismology of automatically picking the arrival of an earthquake from data points that represent a seismogram. The al…
CSEF · 2006
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals My project objectives were to 1) develop and demonstrate the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) as an effective and economical method for tracking individual parti…
CSEF · 2006
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The octanol-water partition coefficient (Kow) measures a solute's distribution between competing organic and aqueous phases, determining its environmental fate and safety. C…
CSEF · 2006
Zoology
Objectives/Goals Problem: To find an effective, safe, long lasting, low cost, and easy to use deer repellent for common flowering plants in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Methods/Materials Experi…
CSEF · 2006
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine important aerodynamic characteristics of an ornithopter configuration, Micro Air Vehicle [MAV] scale vehicle. This project inv…
CSEF · 2006
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The Mimosa Pudica is a member of the Pea family which also includes the Venus fly trap. The Mimosa folds its leaves and droops its petioles rapidly when the leaves are stimu…
CSEF · 2006
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel, has the potential to replace fossil fuels as the worlds# primary energy storage medium thus eliminating pollution and global warming. Current…
CSEF · 2006
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Cellulose plays an essential role in the "pop-ability" of popcorn. During the popping process the heat inside the kernel increases while cellulose rearranges itself and crys…
CSEF · 2006
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether name brand antacids or generic brand antacids are better for consumers in relationship to cost and efficiency. I hypo…
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The Objective of this experiment was to determine the resistance of two strains of Chinese Hamster Ovary cells to the antibiotic Geneticin. My hypothesis was that the strain…
CSEF · 2006
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals I want to find out which type of antibiotic will best treat the calves on the Mendiboure Ranch with scours. I am not at all sure about which antibiotic will successfully tre…
CSEF · 2006
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine how specific an antibody is when presented to proteins with similar amino acid sequences. Methods/Materials The antibody I used…