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CSEF projects, 2002–2026

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.

Years

Category breakdown

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.

Projects

17387 projects · showing 16111–16140

CSEF · 2003

Living With Drought

Plant Biology

Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine the most drought resistant grass. I believed that Annual Ryegrass would grow the best, and prove to be the most drought resistant grass. Metho…

CSEF · 2003

Lung Capacity: Girls vs. Boys

Mammalian Biology

Objectives/Goals The objective was to find out whether girls or boys have a higher lung capacity. Methods/Materials I made a homemade spirometer out of PVC pipe, aluminium tape, a pickle jar…

CSEF · 2003

Lysozyme vs. Odor

Microbiology

Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if lysozyme, an enzyme used to kill gram positive bacteria, can be used to control odor in shoes. Methods/Materials Two identical pairs of shoe…

CSEF · 2003

Madrona Marsh Microbes

Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine whether the sump, a water collection area in Madrona Marsh Preserve, had more bacteria than five other sites on the Preserve. Me…

CSEF · 2003

Maglev Trains

Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing

Objectives/Goals Hypothesis: Magnetic levitated trains are more efficient with top magnet support instead of from the bottom Methods/Materials To test our hypothesis, we followed the standar…

CSEF · 2003

Making Sense of Amazing Hamsters

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals Can learning time of a maze be reduced by adding stimuli related to the senses of sight, sound, touch, or smell, and if this is true, then which sense will be the most effec…

CSEF · 2003

Marching Ants

Zoology

Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if differnt colors of chalk would affect the feeding patterns of ants. My hypothesis was that "Black Chalk" would best deter the ants from visiting…

CSEF · 2003

Measuring Velocity of a Daphnia's Body

Pharmacology/ Toxicology

Objectives/Goals In order to decipher the effects of stimulants and depressants on daphnia velocity, my partner and I decided to infuse each daphnia with a certain percentage of one of the f…

CSEF · 2003

Memory

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals The reason that I wanted to do this project is that I always wondered if memory depended on your age. I thought it would be fun to do a science project on something I'm inte…

CSEF · 2003

Memory Lane

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals To discover which type of short-term memory was the strongest. Methods/Materials Six students, three boys and three girls between the ages of 11 and 13, were randomly select…

CSEF · 2003

Memory Madness

Behavioral Sciences

Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to find out the answer to the problem, which is: Is audio or visual information better remembered? The hypothesis was that visual information is…

CSEF · 2003

Men or Women: Who Has a Faster Pace of Life?

Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine whether men or women display a faster pace of life by measuring time taken to conduct daily activities. Methods/Materials I conducted three tes…

CSEF · 2003

Mojave Precipitation Records

Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals To see if I can take ring samples from local Juniper trees and match the precpitation pattern for the Victorville/Mojave region as recorded by the National Weather Service o…

CSEF · 2003

More Magnetite, Please!

Pharmacology/ Toxicology

Objectives/Goals Homing pigeons have been racing home for many generations. Is it possible to add a supplement to their food that would allow then to find their way home quicker? Methods/Mat…

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