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CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Bronze Medal
In this project I built and tested a pair of glasses with integrated LCD lenses and light sensor. The glasses use a custom designed frequency analysis algorithm to detect the difference betw…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Bronze Medal
When writing braille by hand, the writer will often use a braille slate. Using a standard braille slate, they write from the back of the page, which creates a unique challenge as the letters…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Bronze Medal
Visually impaired people often face challenges in safely navigating their environment due to limited awareness of surrounding objects. Traditional canes primarily detect ground-level obstacl…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Our project focuses on using statistical measures to make comparisons between the different factors that can affect Alzheimer’s disease cognitive trajectories. Firstly, we conducted a meta-a…
CWSF · 2026
Natural Resources Bronze Medal
With the advance of climate change comes added stresses to forests such as increased risk of forest fires due to heat and drought, as well as stresses like increased salt and oxidative stres…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Pediatric Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of death for children worldwide [1], largely due to slow or incorrect diagnosis [2]. Even with advancements in machine learning, modern AI…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Bronze Medal
Microchips are the roots to the rise of AI in the 21st century. Cooling them is a critical task as they produce large amounts of heat and need to stay at a specific functioning temperature ~…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Bronze Medal
Pacific salmon stocks have great economic and cultural significance to Canadians. In recent years, many salmon species have been listed as at risk in salmon conservation assessments. An unde…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Over 220,000 people live with ALS globally today, a number projected to rise 69% by 2040. Yet diagnosis still takes an average of 12 months after symptoms appear, no effective treatment is w…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
Bat collisions with wind turbines are a growing environmental concern. Although several strong, evidence-based theories explain why bats are attracted to wind turbines, no single reason expl…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
Plastic pollution is one of the biggest environmental problems we face today, yet only 9% of plastic ever gets recycled (OECD, 2022). Plastics serve countless purposes — from food packaging…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Bronze Medal
Have you ever wondered if certain sounds could affect memory or efficiency in studying? This project, tested how the two highest binaural beats-Beta and Gamma- would affect student's short t…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary brain tumor (Mayo Clinic, 2025), presenting with a 5-year survival rate of 5-10%. Current treatments for GBM are impeded by the tumor's aggressi…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
Due to climate change, the tick population in Canada is rising rapidly, increasing the risk of tick-borne illnesses such as Lyme disease. The goal of this project was to find an environmenta…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Bronze Medal
Testing out the viability of germinating seeds found from purchased fruit and the success of the plants. By taking the seeds found in a variety of fruits and vegetables that you can purchase…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
Carbon dioxide from combustion engines is a major contributor to climate change. I initially designed a system that used chemical reactions to absorb and trap carbon dioxide. Exhaust gas bub…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Diagnosing aggressive thyroid cancers like the tall-cell variant can be challenging because pathologists must determine whether the cancer cells are at least 3 times taller than they are wid…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
I studied how to turn natural light from marine bioluminescent algae into a safe and useful lighting system. This type of light, called bioluminescence, usually fades very quickly, which mak…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
Freezing rain can build up on power lines and cause serious damage, leading to power outages that affect safety, cost money, and disrupt services. In this project, I studied whether eco-frie…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Human rabies is a zoonotic viral disease transmitted from animals to humans, and is virtually 100% fatal post-symptom onset, primarily due to the virus's ability to evade the immune system a…
CWSF · 2026
Energy Bronze Medal
Cold environments present a major challenge for electrochemical systems, where freezing disrupts ionic pathways and leads to rapid loss of functionality. This project investigates whether th…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Bronze Medal
Damage-Induced Response: Crack-Activated Fluid Delivery in Composite Materials Cracks in materials can lead to sudden failure, especially during events like earthquakes, making structures un…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Bronze Medal
DERMAGUARD is a wearable used to monitor skin and generate bio-printable models for the treatment of diseased skin. The wearable outsources bio-printing, making a it a non-invasive tool and…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Bronze Medal
When two galaxies collide, they should leave behind visible scars. But some collisions happen in massive, old galaxies where the evidence fades so fast that every detection tool declares the…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Bronze Medal
In this digital age, we give away our data everyday; by accepting website cookies or wearing smartwatches that track everything from heart rate to sleep cycles. The data we generate can be u…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
Problem: Traditional water testing is a long process. By the time the lab finds a contaminant, people may have already drunk the water, or it may have affected the environment. We need a way…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Bronze Medal
Every year, families accidentally throw away tons of good food just because they forget what’s hiding in the back of their cupboards. To solve this, we created Echo Pantry, a smart system th…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
11 million tonnes of plastic enter our oceans every year. To recover these plastics, we employ problematic methods such as nets, traps, skimmers, and filters. Relying on manual labour, they…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Bronze Medal
White pollution—the buildup of plastic waste—poses increasing threats to our global ecosystems by damaging water sources and food supplies. Traditional agricultural plastics greatly contribu…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Bronze Medal
Individual ants possess limited cognitive capability, yet collectively they accomplish complex tasks without central command. This is enabled through stigmergy, an indirect, decentralized co…