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 13621–13650
CSEF · 2006
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to see if all manufactured CDs have the exact same area and perimeter. If not, which brands have more deviations in their manufactured product…
CSEF · 2006
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics
Objectives/Goals Measure and compare the effect of wind drag at three different speeds on model cars with three different shapes. In addition, to design a wind tunnel which would be able to…
CSEF · 2006
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine how fast Bolinas Lagoon drains in the period between high tide and low tide, to see if there is a lag between the calculated low t…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Learning is the main objective in the classroom, but with the current methods of teaching this can at times be a more difficult task than it need be. The purpose of this exp…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine whether adults remember information better by hearing it spoken, or by hearing it sung in a familiar tune. I believe that the ad…
CSEF · 2006
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which method of pouring agent into an anesthetic vaporizer will cause the least amount of personal exposure to the agent. Methods/Materials I u…
CSEF · 2006
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to build a small dynamometer that could measure the output power, torque, and RPM of a HO scale slot car. Methods/Materials I researched dyn…
CSEF · 2006
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Current techniques for cancer diagnosis such as imaging (MRI) and tissue examinations are inadequate because they can detect distinguishing morphological patterns, but lack…
CSEF · 2006
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The project was designed to collect and analyze information about the incidence and impact of headaches on teens. The goal is to determine if migraines and other headaches a…
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My experiment was an attempt to test the effectiveness of various natural filters on urban runoff water. I may propose my findings to the Save the Bay Organization, and ask…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals This is a second year study on what effects student's performance. Last year I tested how greatly positive or negative thoughts affected student's grades. Students were told…
CSEF · 2006
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to minimize the effects of reflected GPS multipath signals on an autonomous mobile vehicle. Alice was the name of the autonomous vehicle team…
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals Can intake time of two different medicines with similar effects influence patient#s blood pressure and hence condition? Based on my research, I hypothesized that staggering…
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The Project at hand is based on the extensive pollution caused by the burning of oil-gasoline mixtures in two-stroke engines. The main focus is on motorcycles that utilize t…
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine how storm drain pollutants affect creek health. Methods/Materials I simulated trace contamination and chemical spill of storm drain pollutants o…
CSEF · 2006
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals Moonmilk is a pasty accretion of minerals and microbes found in caves. European peasants used moonmilk to treat infected wounds. Fresh moonmilk deposits in the caves at Oreg…
CSEF · 2006
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The project's objective was to determine if the light and gravitational changes found in each of the four moon's cycle would have an affect on seed germination and plant gro…
CSEF · 2006
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective was to find out which milk - whole, reduced fat, or fat free - had the highest protein level and determine if the process of skimming does indeed collect all o…
CSEF · 2006
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this year's investigation was to see if there was a way to verify mathematically the patterns I noticed last year when I added a sine function to a circular g…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment's goal is to determine if motion, associated with roller coaster riding, and emotion, such as anxiety and stress, affect short-term memory. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2006
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics
Objectives/Goals Determine if adding weight and moving it along the fuselage will change an airplane's flight distance and stall height. Methods/Materials METHODS: Prepare test area without…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The cortical firing patterns used in spatial-temporal reasoning are strikingly similar to the patterns used in Mozart's music. This phenomenon introduces the "Mozart Effect,…
CSEF · 2006
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals My project studies genetic interactions between the branchpoint binding protein (BBP) and transcription factors BUR2, CTK2, and CTK3. BBP facilitates binding of the U2 snRNP…
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The goal was to determine optimal conditions for the induction of native soluble Ste7 and Kss1, proteins involved in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae pheromone pathway. Methods/…
CSEF · 2006
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project was to examine whether a recreational sport such as soccer could improve a player#s physical fitness by increasing muscle strength and size and…
CSEF · 2006
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine the relationship between the bicep muscle size, forearm length, and the ability to develop force, by calculating the amount of torque created. M…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if playing a musical instrument is more correlated with higher IQ than listening to music by comparing test scores between a group that perform…
CSEF · 2006
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of my experiment was to determine the average volume at which preadolescent and adolescent students listen to digital music using earbuds. My hypothesis was that st…
CSEF · 2006
Structural Capability & Strength of Materials (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine whether the addition of a form of Dopa (Nordihydroguaiaretic acid or NDGA) to man-made protein based glue (Elmers white) creates a stronger bond in both wet and…
CSEF · 2006
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project is to study the occurrence of native and introduced species in various aged redwood forests in Humboldt County. The forests observed have been l…