2005 California State Science Fair Pictures

This page is a work in progress.
While all of the photographs taken by the Fair's photographer have now
been posted, many of the pictures still have unidentified students,
judges, and parents. We need your help in identifying them.
Also, presently only a few of the many photographs contributed by
participants and their families have been posted and annotated. More
will be posted during the coming days.
If you can identify people in any photograph who are not named in the
accompanying caption, please let us know with the link provided on that
page, or send e-mail to
CalifSF@usc.edu.
Do you have photographs of your time at the Fair?
We welcome photographs from participants, especially since our photographers
could not be in all places at all times. Please
let us
know and we may add your photos to the collection below.
An index of all photographs and identified
persons is under construction.
The order of the photographs given below is intended to be
approximately chronological, except within the project judging
photographs which are ordered geographically.
- Monday: Keynote Address
- Timestamp of photo appears at the left
- 17:07 Don Swanson, CSSF Chair, opening the ceremony
- 17:07 Jeff Rudolph, California Science Center CEO, introducing the speaker
- 17:09 Girl in audience
- 17:10 Girl in audience
- 17:10 Three boys in audience awaiting speaker
- 17:10 View of audience with Jeff Rudolph at podium
- 17:13 Overhead view of audience showing Michael Shermer on stage
- 17:14 Michael Shermer on stage with microphone
- 17:14 Students in front of audience during Keynote
- 17:14 Boy and father
- 17:14 Girl in audience
- 17:14 Boy in audience
- 17:14 Girl in audience
- 17:14 Girl in audience
- 17:15 Girls on aisle
- 17:16 Girl in audience
- 17:16 Boy in audience
- 17:16 Girl in audience
- 17:20 View of front of audience
- 17:21 Students at front of audience
- 17:22 Michael Shermer demonstrating device in hand
- 17:23 Two students
- 17:23 People in aisle seats watching Keynote
- 17:24 Row of students
- 17:24 Boy in audience
- 17:24 Brother, sister, and others in audience
- 17:25 Mother and daughter
- 17:25 Boy in audience
- 17:26 Girl in audience
- 17:26 Sister and brother
- 17:27 Michael Shermer gesturing to make a point
- 17:31 Boy in audience
- 17:31 Boy in audience
- 17:32 Family at front of audience
- 17:33 Michael Shermer, pointing with a big smile
- 17:33 Boy in audience
- 17:34 Girl in audience
- 17:34 Boy in audience
- 17:34 Row of students in audience
- 17:35 Two girls in audience
- 17:35 Boy in audience
- 17:36 Two boys in audience
- 17:36 Boy in audience
- 17:36 Girl in audience
- 17:37 Row of students
- 17:37 Michael Shermer gesturing to make a point
- 17:38 Girl in audience
- 17:39 Mother and daughter
- 17:39 Two boys in audience
- 17:40 Students in audience
- 17:40 Girls in audience
- 17:41 Jeff Rudolph and William Harris conferring
- 17:43 Boy in audience
- 17:44 Boy in audience
- 17:44 Girl in audience
- 17:45 Boy in audience
- 17:45 Girl in audience
- 17:45 Girl in audience
- 17:46 Boy and girl in audience
- 17:48 Michael Shermer with "volunteer"
- 17:51 Michael Shermer with "volunteer"
- 17:52 Don Swanson and Michael Shermer during question period
- 17:52 Woman in audience asking post-Keynote question
- 17:53 "Volunteer" above now safely back in audience
- 17:53 Girl in audience
- 17:54 Girl in audience
- 17:54 Man in audience
- 17:55 Girl in audience
- 17:55 Girl in audience
- 17:56 Several students
- 17:57 Several students
- 17:58 Girl in audience
- 17:58 Boy in audience
- 17:58 Woman in audience
- 17:59 Boy in audience
- 17:59 Boy in audience
- 17:59 William Harris
- 18:00 Girl in audience
- 18:02 Michael Shermer answering questions
- 18:02 Boy and sister
- 18:05 Don Swanson and Michael Shermer seen from ahead
- 18:06 Don Swanson and Michael Shermer following Keynote
- 18:07 Boy with Michael Shermer following Keynote
- 18:07 Friends from one school following Keynote
- 18:07 Michael Shermer with three students from another school
- 18:08 Three students at front following Keynote
- 18:08 Girl and father following Keynote
- 18:10 Family on stage following Keynote
- 18:13 Family and friends of Don Swanson
- 18:13 Student at front after Keynote
- 18:14 Michael Shermer with students following the Keynote
- 18:16 Girl with father
- 18:17 Michael Shermer and Don Swanson
- 18:17 Michael Shermer, Liz Brown Swanson, and Don Swanson
- 18:19 A future CSSF participant?
Tuesday: Student Orientation
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- Views of the Audience
- 7:33 am Student and mother
- 7:36 am Two students awaiting Orientation
- 7:36 am Student and mother
- 7:44 am Several students awaiting Orientation
- 7:45 am Student and mother
- 7:45 am Student awaiting Orientation
- 7:48 am Student and father
- 7:57 am Front of audience (stage right)
- 8:01 am Front of audience (center)
- 8:02 am Front of audience (stage left)
- 8:02 am Front of audience (stage left)
- 8:06 am Front of audience (stage right)
- 8:06 am Front of audience (stage right)
- 8:07 am Two students
- 8:07 am Front of audience (stage right)
- 8:07 am Student in middle of audience
- 8:07 am Front of audience (stage left)
- 8:07 am Front of audience (stage left)
- 8:07 am Large view of audience (center)
- 8:07 am Large view of audience (center to stage left)
- 8:09 am Medium view of audience (stage left)
- 8:10 am Medium view of audience (stage right)
- 8:10 am Medium view of audience (stage right)
- Recognizing 5- and 6-Year Participants
- Announcing 5- and 6-Year Participants
- 6-Year Participants
- 6-Year Participants Congratulated on Stage
Tuesday: Project Judging
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- California Science Center First Floor, Main Display Area (from south to north)
- View of multiple categories from above
- Junior Mammalian Biology
- J1010
- J1011
- J1012
- J1018
- See also an overhead view
- Junior Environmental Science
- J0906
- J0907
- J0908
- J0919
- J0999
- See also an overhead view
- Junior Chemistry
- J0504
- J0508
- J0511
- J0511
- J0511
- J0517
- J0520
- J0521
- J0526
- J0526
- J0530
- J0531
- unrecognized
- Junior Environmental Engineering
- J0802
- J0808
- Junior Zoology
- J1913
- J1917
- J1918
- California Science Center First Floor, Loker Conference Room (from north to south)
- Junior Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics
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- Junior Mathematics & Software
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- Junior Applied Mechanics
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- Junior Biochemistry
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- Junior Physics & Astronomy
- J1509
- J1509
- J1598
- J1598
- Junior Social Sciences
- J1711
- J1712
- J1713
- J1716
- J1717
- Junior Behavioral Sciences
- J0313
- J0314
- J0315
- J0317
- J0318
- J0319
- J0322
- J0336
- J0341
- Junior Electricity & Electronics
- J0701
- J0707
- J0708
- J0710
- J0711
- J0712
- J0715
- J0716
- J0716
- J0719
- J0721
- J0722
- California Science Center, Second Floor (from west to east)
- Junior Plant Biology
- J1625
- J1629
- J1631
- J1633
- J1634
- J1635
- J1636
- J1637
- Junior Strength & Structures
- J1811
- J1811
- J1813
- J1813
- J1817
- Junior Earth & Planetary Sciences
- J0612
- J0612
- Junior Materials Sciences
- View along aisle
- J1115
- J1116
- J1117
- J1117
- J1137
- California Science Center, Third Floor (Skycourt)
- Junior Microbiology
- J1301
- J1302
- J1304
- J1305
- J1306
- J1307
- J1308
- J1337
- J1338
- J1339
- J1340
- J1341
- Junior Pharmacology/ Toxicology
- J1401
- J1407
- J1407
- J1427
- Wallis Annenberg Building, First Floor, MUSES Room
- Senior Biochemistry
- View down the aisle
- S0401
- S0402
- S0414
- S0414
- Senior Chemistry
- View down the aisle
- S0503
- S0505
- S0508
- S0508
- S0510
- S0511
- S0512
- S0515
- S0516
- S0516
- S0518
- S0519
- S0521
- S0521
- S0521
- S0521
- S0599
- Senior Microbiology
- S1301
- S1302-03
- S1303
- S1307
- S1310
- S1318-20
- S1322
- S1323
- Wallis Annenberg Building, First Floor, Multi-Purpose Room (MPR)
- Senior Behavioral Sciences
- S0304
- S0306
- S0312
- S0313
- S0314
- S0319
- S0320
- Senior Mathematics & Software
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- Senior Physics & Astronomy
- S1507
- Wallis Annenberg Building, First Floor, South end, (Rooms 223, 224)
- Senior Environmental Engineering
- S0801
- S0802
- S0806
- S0811
- S0812
- S0813
- Senior Zoology
- S1901
- S1902
- S1903
- S1904
- S1905
- S1907
- S1908
- S1911
- S1913
- S1914
- S1915
- S1916
- S1917
- S1918
- Wallis Annenberg Building, Second Floor, South end, (Rooms 321, 323, 324)
- Senior Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics
- S0101
- S0102
- S0103
- S0104
- S0105
- S0107
- S0109
- S0110
- Senior Plant Bioloy
- S1603
- S1604
- S1610
- S1610-11
- Several projects
- Senior Earth & Planetary Sciences
- S0602
- S0603
- S0610
- S0615
- Several projects
- Wallis Annenberg Building, Second Floor, North end, (Rooms 301, 302, 304, 330)
- Senior Applied Mechanics
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- Senior Electricity & Electronics
- S0707
- S0711
- Senior Mammalian Biology
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- Senior Pharmacology/ Toxicology
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- Outside Walllis Annenberg Building, during the Break in Judging
- Row of friends
- Project neighbors
- Row of friends
- Exodus from building
- S0303 partners
- S0104 partners
- Brother and sister participants
- Exodus from building
- Friends from one school
- Outside Walllis Annenberg Building, after the end of judging
- new friends walk to lunch
- "We're going to Disneyland?"
Tuesday: Recognition Awards (presented at project displays)
- American Institute of Professional Geologists, Senior Division
- American Institute of Professional Geologists, Junior Division
- California Association of Professional Scientists
- California Shore & Beach Preservation Association, Senior Division
- California Shore & Beach Preservation Association, Junior Division
- Earth Systems Science Award
- Health Physics Society, Southern California Chapter, Senior Division Award
- Health Physics Society, Southern California Chapter, Junior Division Award
- SINAM Outstanding Nanoscience Award, First Place
- SINAM Outstanding Nanoscience Award, Second Place
- SINAM Outstanding Nanoscience Award, Third Place
- Society of Petroleum Engineers, Los Angeles Basin Section, Senior Division
- Society of Petroleum Engineers, Los Angeles Basin Section, Junior Division
- SPIE Optics & Photonics Award, Senior Division
- SPIE Optics & Photonics Award, Junior Division
Tuesday: Awards Ceremony
- Before the Ceremony
- Center of the front row
- Just to the right in the front row
- Further to the right in the front row
- Middle of the audience
- Welcome
- Jeff Rudolph, President and CEO, California Science Center
- Don Swanson, Chair, 2005 California State Science Fair
- Major Fair Awards, Part I
- Science Fair Student of the Year (with plaque)
- Science Fair Teacher of the Year - Junior Division
- Science Fair Teacher of the Year - Senior Division
- Special Awards
- UC Riverside Center for Plant Cell Biology Award
- Muses Special Award
- Muses Harriet Luckman Memorial Award
- California 4-H Service Through Science Award
- Silicon Boule Awards
- SPIE Optics & Photonics Award
- MLIM Award for Mathematics and Software Studies
- Cardinal & Gold Award of Excellence
- John D. Isaacs Scholarship
- Category Awards
- Presenters: Steven Schandler and Geraldine Peters
- Major Fair Awards, Part II
Dr. & Mrs. Arnold O. Beckman Project of the Year Awards
- Presenter: Pat Beckman
- Science Fair Project of the Year - Junior Division
- Science Fair Project of the Year - Senior Division
Recap
- All Participants (organized by panel)
- Index listing all people (to come)

Last updated:
Tue Jul 26 23:02:11 PDT 2005
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