For the best project concerning air quality and/or climate change. One award in each division. Award is $1500. Presented by the Southern California Air Quality Management District.

For scientific achievement in the fields of cell and molecular biology, genomics, bioinformatics, or technology development that will impact our understanding of plant cell biology. Award is $1000. Presented by the Center for Plant Cell Biology of the University of California, Riverside.

For the best project in the Senior Division on coastal science and/or engineering, addressing problems or providing new solutions or technology to coastal and ocean issues. Award is $500 and memberships in both the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association and its California Chapter, CSBPA. Presented by the California Shore & Beach Preservation Association.

For projects best representing the excellence of California's youth in science studies. Award is $500. Presented by the Dr. Ibrahim El-Hefni Technical Training Foundation.

For the projects that best explore the industry that makes California the state that feeds the world, the $31 billion agriculture industry. One award in each division. Award is a $1,000 US Savings Bond. Presented by the California Association of Pest Control Advisors.

For achievement in electronics and electromagnetic studies. Limited to projects in the Junior Division. Award is $500. Presented anonymously.

For achievement in mathematics and software studies. Limited to projects in the Senior Division. Award is $500. Presented anonymously.

For an outstanding project in the health sciences, especially with humanitarian consequences. Award is $1000. Presented by the Sheila Kar Health Foundation.

For distinctive performance in the physical sciences. Award is a Technology Kit including a TRW custom designed silicon die for the space program which became an enabling technology for the CAT scan. This award has been presented annually since 1995 and was originally an end piece of an ultrapure monocrystalline silicon boule. Presented by Dale L. Hall, retired Senior Engineer from Northrop Grumman Space Technology.

For a project advancing student scientific research and engineering applications of optical, photonic, imaging, and optoelectronic technologies. One award in each division. Award is $1000, a certificate, society membership, and a SPIE t-shirt. Presented by the International Society for Optical Engineering.

For outstanding science projects in all areas of neuroscience from molecules to mind. One award in each division. Award is $500. Presented by the UCLA Brain Research Institute (BRI).

Award is exact osteologic reproductions of the human brain and grizzly bear skull (the official California state mammal). Presented by Bone Clones Osteological Reproductions Inc., and the Hauta von Wissmann Foundation.

For the project best illustrating good scientific methodology in a discipline represented by members of CAPS, including physics, chemistry, biological and environmental science, toxics and energy resources. Limited to students in grades 7-11. Award is $100 and a plaque. Presented by the California Association of Professional Scientists. Sponsored by the Department of Toxic Substances Control.

For an outstanding project in the field of geosciences. One award in each division. Award is $250 and a one-year subscription to The Professional Geologist. Presented by the American Institute of Professional Geologists and the California Council of Geoscience Organizations.

For interesting and original projects that impact the future of clinical chemistry. Two awards in each division. Senior Division award is $100, Junior Division award is $50. Presented by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Southern California Section.

For the best project in the Junior Division on coastal science and/or engineering, addressing problems or providing new solutions or technology to coastal and ocean issues. Award is $250 and memberships in both the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association and its California Chapter, CSBPA. Presented by the California Shore & Beach Preservation Association.

For the projects which best demonstrate and/or observe the use or effects of ionizing (e.g., x-rays) or non-ionizing (e.g., UV) radiation. First Place award is $100, Honorable Mention award is $25, and each receives a certificate. Presented by the Southern California Chapter of the Health Physics Society.

For projects which best use innovative, low-cost experimental techniques to answer interesting scientific and engineering questions. Award is $30, a Norton Internet Security CD, and a certificate. Presented by the Science Buddies Program of the Kenneth Lafferty Hess Family Charitable Foundation.

For outstanding technical achievement in projects relating to the development of oil and/or gas resources, mechanics, subsurface fluid flow, and production of those or other energy resources through wellbores, or in projects of a technical nature requiring a high degree of independent thinking, which could be applied to the advancement of the field of petroleum engineering research and/or development. Award is $300. Presented by the Los Angeles Basin Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

For projects advancing student scientific research and engineering applications of optical, photonic, imaging, and optoelectronic technologies. One award in each division. Award is $250, a certificate, society membership, and a SPIE t-shirt. Presented by the International Society for Optical Engineering.

For projects best demonstrating outstanding achievement in the study of Earth Systems Science. Limited to students in grades 9-11. Award is $250. Presented by the University of California, Irvine, Department of Earth Systems Science.

For outstanding science projects in all areas of neuroscience from molecules to mind. One place award in each division. First Place award is $100, and Second Place award is $50. Presented by the UCLA Brain Research Institute (BRI).