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 14011–14040
CSEF · 2005
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine a possible way to calculate a model rocket#s trajectory in order to predict a possible landing zone by using mathematical models…
CSEF · 2005
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals In 2004, ABA Energy noted a circular feature in their analysis of a 3-D seismic dataset in the Sacramento basin. The analyst's objective was to determine whether this featur…
CSEF · 2005
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals My goal was to study possible interactions between the proteins BBP, a splicing factor, and BUR2, a transcription factor, in yeast. Finding an interaction would suggest a la…
CSEF · 2005
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals What happens to our environment when someone forgets to take the gas nozzle out of the car and they drive off and it leaks? What happens to our environment because of that l…
CSEF · 2005
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project was to understand the materials science (including structure, electrical and heat-flow properties) of peltier devices and to design a small…
CSEF · 2005
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether barriers placed offshore can effectively minimize the impact of tsunami waves. Which barrier design is most effective in reducing the a…
CSEF · 2005
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My project deals with an idealized but still realistic situation described as follows. A finite number of offers arrive one at a time. If an offer is accepted, the search en…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if global warming is affecting the number of Giant Green (northern species) and Sunburst (southern species) sea anemones at the Almar Avenue si…
CSEF · 2005
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to generate electricity by harnessing some of the kinetic energy of water flowing through a 1 1/4 inch pipe. This will be done with a small-sc…
CSEF · 2005
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn about the underlying chemistries of the lithium ion and lead acid batteries in order to better understand why their discharge capacities were affec…
CSEF · 2005
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals VAT dying is a process through which all insoluble commercial VAT dyes are taken up by cotton fibers in an alkaline or base-soluble form by reduction and made insoluble agai…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My research showed that a substantial number of the world#s languages belong to the Indo-European language #family,# with various other languages belonging to four additiona…
CSEF · 2005
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of our project is to determine which of four different salt species in solution is the best conductor of electricity. We devised this experiment because we wan…
CSEF · 2005
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Sound decay is a subject that has not been deeply probed by the scientific community. I would like to expand that knowledge in both myself and others, so with my experiment,…
CSEF · 2005
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find organic ant repellents. I hypothesized that cedar chips, small dried lavender twigs and torn marigold petals would repel ants. Methods/Materials In…
CSEF · 2005
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals Experiments were performed to determine whether or not antibacterial products are actually any better than regular cleaning agents at eliminating bacteria. Today, products t…
CSEF · 2005
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to test everyday household items to see which was the most effective to use as an organic ant repellant. If a good organic repellant can b…
CSEF · 2005
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The Objective of this project is to compute theoretical and mathematical data in regard to the Stock Market and other securities to accurately predict price fluctuations of…
CSEF · 2005
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals The two largest manufacturers of baseballs certified for use in Little League Baseball competition are the Rawlings Sporting Goods Company and Diamond Sports Company, Inc. S…
CSEF · 2005
Zoology
Objectives/Goals I love animals and am fascinated that scientists knew birds had more cones in their eyes than humans which means they see more colors than humans, but they still believed th…
CSEF · 2005
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine the extent of copper contamination in drinking water due to the use of copper pipes. Also, the effect of the acidity of water on th…
CSEF · 2005
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science fair project is to determine whether fingerprints are hereditary, which types are hereditary, and which parent to child combination is most heredit…
CSEF · 2005
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My goal was to show that mice will establish a territory over a certain time, and I plan to take random snapshots of their positions in order to show a perferred area where…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My Project tested to see the brain type of musicians. My hypothesis stated that musicians would be left brained because of the left brain functions used to be a musician. Me…
CSEF · 2005
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine the relationship of varying voltage and magnetic force generation in an AC electromagnet. My interest in electricity prompted…
CSEF · 2005
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals This project involves various stages and fields including Engineering/Mechanics, self-taught "C-Windows" Computer Programming, Electronics, and Mathematics. My primary goal…
CSEF · 2005
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My goal of this project is to find out what percent of California's Hawaiian papaya is genetically engineered and whether the genetically engineered papaya tastes different…
CSEF · 2005
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine the presence of salmonella bacteria from whole, uncooked chickens from different suppliers/proccesing plants. Methods/Materials I conducted my e…
CSEF · 2005
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether the majority of 12-13 year olds have cross-dominance between their dominant hand and eye, and whether males or females are more commonl…
CSEF · 2005
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My goal for this project was to find out if the temperature of a magnet affected its magnetic pull. Also, I wanted to know in what ways and rates the magnetic pull would be…