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 13531–13560
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals None of the currently existing therapies for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) are curative or significantly increase the lifespan of patients. Can a more effective cure be foun…
CSEF · 2006
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I'm trying to see which organic acid: humic acid or fulvic acid, can speed up the growth of green mung beans. I think humic acid would be the best since it is composed of th…
CSEF · 2006
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals This project is a continuation of an earlier study I performed that involved the use of different substances to break the hydrogen bonds in water. The goal of my current pro…
CSEF · 2006
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project was to conduct internet research and ladoratory experimentation to study the theoretical principles behind fuel cells and their practical applic…
CSEF · 2006
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine which propeller pitch produced the most thrust in a static setting, and I believed that the steepest pitch would produce the mos…
CSEF · 2006
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals 1) Identify which structural features of quinoline-based antimalarials prevent heme polymerization (therefore killing the malaria parasite Plasmodium with free heme inside t…
CSEF · 2006
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn to make soap using different types of fats; I assumed that the solidity of the type of fat used would determine the density of the finished soap. M…
CSEF · 2006
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or "Lou Gehrig's Disease") is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by the death of motor neurons, causing complete paralysis and deat…
CSEF · 2006
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals One component of Global Warming is the influence of green house gasses such as CO2. In order to better understand the potential effect on flora, I evaluated the impact of el…
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals In this study, petunias (Petunia x hybrida) were treated with systemic and topical pesticides and their growth characteristics were measured and recorded. Our hypothesis is…
CSEF · 2006
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Aging is unclear to scientists worldwide and yet people continue to be interested in ways to live longer; in Drosophila, when insulin levels fall, due to either genetic inte…
CSEF · 2006
Structural Capability & Strength of Materials (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals to discover which type of truss bridge design is more efficient Methods/Materials A·2 bottles of rubber cement A·30 ball point pins A·1 protractor A·1 set square A·1 enginee…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Even though art is not one of the core and mandatory subjects, according to many different educational literature and data, art is still important in that it helps students…
CSEF · 2006
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals To determine what influence various fertilizers have on the growth rate of a green onion plant. This project focused on the study of mitosis and the study of different chemi…
CSEF · 2006
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find out if I could influence ordinary tap water to make the surface tension change, and if it did, how it would change. I tried it by adding salt, oil, detergen…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I tested to see whether or not people can multitask and if they can, I want to know how it affects the quality and quantity of their work. Methods/Materials Using four simil…
CSEF · 2006
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Determine if related family members have similar fingerprint patterns. Test related family members to see if fingerprint types are genetically inherited. I posed the questio…
CSEF · 2006
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals Due to pressure caused by a retinal tack that is used to attach the current micro-electrode prosthesis to the surface of the retina, vascular leakage and retinal folding are…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals In this continuation project from our study on the effects of blinking on vision while reading and working on the computer, we sought to determine if the vision of soft cont…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective is to find out why when a multiplication table is folded diagonally so that the fold runs from the upper left corner to the lower right corner, the numbers that…
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to investigate health issues in the public school student population by investigating whether cases of cancer, specifically leukemia, and seizu…
CSEF · 2006
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals My project was seeing how different Acids affect a pennies mass; this was done in order to verify the impact of acid rain. Methods/Materials Pennies were put in water (contr…
CSEF · 2006
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The number of aquatic species listed as endangered or threatened is growing. Cryopreservation may offer the opportunity to preserve genetic material in DNA banks, conduct ge…
CSEF · 2006
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to examine the properties of resonance and the effects of tension in multi-pendulum system. The independent variable was the amount of tens…
CSEF · 2006
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals Impact cratering plays an integral role in the evolution and formation of planetary systems. Chemical anomalies are accepted phenomena at impact sites, but few, if any, publ…
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to test the effectiveness of different kinds of pepper extracts as a natural pesticide in controlling and killing aphids. If a natural pesticide…
CSEF · 2006
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals To find out which type of detergent will weaken the fabric and cause the fabric to he point that it can't turn back to it's normal size. the other reason is to find out whic…
CSEF · 2006
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals My project is to determine which water type will dissolve bar soap at the fastest rate. Methods/Materials Four plastic containers were set-up and labeled for specific water…
CSEF · 2006
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals To create, test and optimize a new algorithm, the Guided Localized Model (GLoM), for simulating DNA that is more precise than currently available methods. It was hypothesize…
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals We set out to find if combining medicinal plant extracts would increase its potency. We chose plants that we were able to acquire from around our school such as garlic, euca…