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 16381–16410
CSEF · 2003
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals DNA can be inserted into cells to achieve desired characteristics previously unexpressed. It is challenging to insert a DNA sequence through the cell membrane. Furthermore,…
CSEF · 2003
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to design a computer program that could determine the rate of diffusion between solids using the Scheme programming language. Methods/Materials Fi…
CSEF · 2003
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals My project was to test the effect, on velocities produced, of different magnet spacing on a Gauss Rifle magnetic linear accelerator. Methods/Materials I built a magnetic lin…
CSEF · 2003
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether different types of packing arrangements (hexagonal, face centered, or body centered close packing) affect the packing density of sphere…
CSEF · 2003
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My experiment was designed to test the germination and growth of corn, radish, and marigolds as the experiment's variable, gravity, was changed. Methods/Materials I examined…
CSEF · 2003
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objectives of this experiment is to provide evidence that germinating maize roots (Zea Mays var. rugosa) sense and respond to altered gravitational forces (Gravitropism)…
CSEF · 2003
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to see how different types of food affect protozoa. Methods/Materials Six water samples that had Protozoa in them with a food sample from ea…
CSEF · 2003
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals To create a simplistic file format for storing two dimensional images that supports compression, encryption, color mapping, and is easy to interpret. Methods/Materials Mater…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine how receptive a cross-section of retail business owners would be to implementing a recycling program, how much of an impact the…
CSEF · 2003
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the study is to prolong coagulation through the introduction of cholesterol-binding methyl-beta-cyclodextrin (MBCD). It is thought that MBCD, through its know…
CSEF · 2003
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals NMR (H-1; C-13) spectroscopy was used to characterize the essential oils isolated by steam distillation from lavender Grosso, Provence, Angustifolia, and a blend, to determi…
CSEF · 2003
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective for this project was to determine if listening to no music, music in a G major key or music in a G minor key will cause my subjects' heart rate and/or respirato…
CSEF · 2003
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals In this experiment, we attempted to test the hypothesis that plants can be classically conditioned. We used the Venus flytrap as the plant specimen and its trapping response…
CSEF · 2003
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My objective was to understand how the flute works as a musical instrument. Methods/Materials I constructed model flutes from plastic irrigation pipe. My flutes varied in le…
CSEF · 2003
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals I re-created a small Trebuchet, an ancient siege engine from Medieval Europe. I hoped to be able to duplicate the function of ancient examples, in accurately firing projecti…
CSEF · 2003
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine which AI computer player wins the most games. I believe the more aggressive player, Type A, will win more games. Methods/Materials I programmed…
CSEF · 2003
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment is to find out if a person's age affects how quickly they perceive color. I did this project to show how ones eyes might be affected, as they ge…
CSEF · 2003
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine the speed of a model car powered by a solar cell vs. a car powered by a hybrid cell (solar cell plus fuel cell) with the solar…
CSEF · 2003
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals This project is designed to test the execution speed of popular computer languages such as QBASIC, Java, and C++ and determine which language will execute its code the faste…
CSEF · 2003
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals This experiment involves solar cells and how they produce electricity. Two important questions are: How is the output power affected by the input power and by distance from…
CSEF · 2003
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find the relationship between the length of a string (I tested guitar strings) and the frequency produced when the string is plucked or strummed. In addi…
CSEF · 2003
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The hypothesis of the experiment is that the ratio between the error in determining I using by inscribing polygons within and circumscribing polygons about a circle with (km…
CSEF · 2003
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals My project was to learn how electromagnets work and to determine if the number of wraps in an electromagnetic coil proportionally affects the strength of the electromagnetic…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if urban runoff or pollution harms plant and animal life in a Riparian Environment. Methods/Materials First finding each pond around Huntington Bea…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if artificial light has an effect on the migration pattern of Daphnia in a simple laboratory experiment, in a simulation of a pond habitat, and…
CSEF · 2003
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine how whether a person has a dominant right or left hand affects whether they have a dominant right or left eye. It was hypothes…
CSEF · 2003
Zoology
Objectives/Goals This experiment explored the possible ability of purple sea urchins, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, to detect the location of a rock (one that they had previously crawled ov…
CSEF · 2003
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to see if there was a relationship between water temperature and flow on the Mad River. Because of the Klamath River fish kill that claimed t…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Cultural eutrophication is a major problem affecting lakes all over the world. Ludwigia peploides is a plant native to riparian communities in Southern California. It is unk…
CSEF · 2003
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine if E. senticosus (Ginseng) causes mutagenic effects on D. melanogaster (fruit flies). A lethal mutation will result in the ab…