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 13801–13830
CSEF · 2006
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effect of circular directional waveguide antennas of varying volume on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a wireless netw…
CSEF · 2006
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine how much I could improve the efficiency of a solenoid (used to actuate a target arm in a game system) by varying the geometry of the core and b…
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to determine the effect of curcumin, a component in a common South Asian spice, on a chemical that plays a major role in the inflammatory process…
CSEF · 2006
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My project looked at whether or not blocking the sodium channels in neurons that are used for synaptic activity has an effect on the development of synapses in the brain. Me…
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose was to find out what hair reparative treatment strengthened hair exposed to various amounts of chlorine the most. Methods/Materials The materials were 150 strand…
CSEF · 2006
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to find out if different sizes of rods have an affect on the strength of an electromagnet. Methods/Materials 1- 12 volt battery; 1- Roll of 3…
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment is to test and analyze the effect of Eisenia fetida (compost worm) in enhancing and promoting the natural bioremediation of hydrocarbons by in…
CSEF · 2006
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to elucidate mechanisms and stages of microbial apoptosis/programmed cell death, as well as to evaluate the effects of the antimicrobial agen…
CSEF · 2006
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The purpose was to discover far infrared's effect on the growth of common bread mold. The expectation was that the far infrared would act as a fungicide on the mold, therefo…
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine if run off water from fertilizer will effect the eggs of amphibians. The African Dwarf Frog Egg is representing amphibians. Amphibi…
CSEF · 2006
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to see whether sulfide ions can be oxidized fast enough by S. Pombe and brewer's yeast sulfide oxidizing proteins, or if their rate of ox…
CSEF · 2006
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals The objective in this project was to determine if the level of salinity changes in the ocean as the latitude decreases, approaching the Antarctic polar ice caps. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this investigation was to learn if the presence or absence of the net affected free throw accuracy. The hypothesis was: if the net is removed from the hoop…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our project objective is to determine if cockpit noise affects the performance of pilots. We believe that increased noise will serve as a distraction, and therefore lessen t…
CSEF · 2006
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
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 varying degrees of radi…
CSEF · 2006
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals This experiment tested the effect of common types of runoff water on corn plant growth. Runoff is an important issue in our communities. There are several types of runoff wa…
CSEF · 2006
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals Does temperature affect the strength of an electromagnet? Methods/Materials A. I wrapped 22 gauge copper wire around a 14 centimeter iron nail 100 times to make the electrom…
CSEF · 2006
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment is to find the optimum temperature for absorbing CO2 in molecular sieve 4A. Methods/Materials I first heat up my column to the test temperature.…
CSEF · 2006
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was attempting to discover how different temperature affects the elasticity of rubber. I believed that as temperature gets higher rubber is more elastic and as te…
CSEF · 2006
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine if high or low temperatures affect Achlyos survival and growth. The hypothesis was that if Achlyos were contained in a colder…
CSEF · 2006
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals It is now known that oxidative stress is one of the major causes of the initiation, progression, and consequences of diabetes mellitus, including heart disease, diabetic neu…
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The fetal and early life nutritional programming has important non-implications on evolution of disease states in later life. Dietary fat and disease states is well establis…
CSEF · 2006
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine whether visual subliminal messages have any effect on viewers' color choice. Methods/Materials Three copies were made of a…
CSEF · 2006
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to observe if there are any effects of winglets on a low aspect ratio wing, particularly dealing with wingtip vortices. Methods/Materials A…
CSEF · 2006
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Objective: The problem that the experimenter investigated was the effects of acid rain on residential roofing materials. The experimenter hoped to discover that clay tiles a…
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals Identify parts of the California Buckeye (Aesculus californica) that are effective as a mosquito larvicide and attempt to pinpoint chemical(s) or compound(s) that are behavi…
CSEF · 2006
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My objectives is to see if air pollution affects mosquito larvae. Methods/Materials The steps of my project is simple. First get 15 larvae into the beaker, then put beaker i…
CSEF · 2006
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals On January 28, 1986 America was shocked by the o-ring malfunction which led to the obliteration of the space shuttle Challenger, and the death of its seven crew members. My…
CSEF · 2006
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine whether the color of light has any effects on an algae's growth and oxygen production. I believed that if the color of light matched the classi…
CSEF · 2006
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine what type of glass would hold out radiant heat and cold air. The Types of glass I used were single pane, double pane , and Low E. I believed the…