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CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Current diagnostic methods for neurodegenerative diseases often depend on expensive imaging or on symptoms that only appear in later stages. My project, NeuroSight, explores a more accessibl…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Bronze Medal
Current Arctic transportation options are generally unreliable as they mainly rely on costly infrastructure or are susceptible to environmental conditions. The thrust cushion vehicle (TCV) s…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Dental disease is one of the most underdiagnosed conditions worldwide. Apical periodontitis affects nearly half of adults, yet often remains asymptomatic until irreversible damage occurs. Ea…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
Increasing amounts of heavy metals are entering our watershed, harming the environment by killing plants and animals, impacting human health, and destroying water quality. Heavy metals are r…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
Wildfire destruction, exemplified by Canada’s 2025 wildfire season, marked the second-worst in the nation’s history. In Manitoba alone, 432 fires were consuming more than 2.1 million hectare…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Bronze Medal
Viral zoonotic diseases pose major challenges in epidemiology due to their lack of transmission predictability. These diseases often lead to global outbreaks. There have been past studies th…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
The H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), commonly known as Bird Flu, is an urgent threat to global health. This virus is a significant problem, infecting millions of birds and 42 d…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Sepsis is one of the deadliest conditions in modern medicine, an extremely fatal cascading immune response to infection that kills more people each year than heart attacks and strokes combin…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Bronze Medal
This project created machine learning models trained from axolotl regeneration data to identify which human genes that show patterns similar to those involved in axolotl regeneration. Two ma…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
Peatlands are the largest terrestrial store of carbon globally, and Canada’s peatlands hold 25% of this store. Climate change leads to increased wildfire intensity and frequency, which can d…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Bronze Medal
By 2050, the world needs to produce 70% more food to feed an estimated 9.1 billion people, yet climate change threatens every grain. Winter wheat offers a clever solution for colder climates…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Bronze Medal
Post-harvest Agricultural Produce is frequently compromised on farms, during transportation from farms to warehouses and retail stores. Spoiled produce is subsequently thrown out from grocer…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Bronze Medal
My grandparents live near the Englishman River on Vancouver Island, where big floods often happen in the fall and winter, soon after salmon lay their eggs. I wanted to learn how these floods…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Bronze Medal
After moving to Nova Scotia, I noticed a lot of seaweed along the beaches. It would wash up in large piles, start to decay, and attract flies. At first, it seemed like waste, and I wondered…
CWSF · 2026
Energy Bronze Medal
Canada’s multi-billion dollar canola industry had a bumper crop in 2025 but faced unprecedented challenges due to tariffs and international trade uncertainty. We made biofuel from five seed…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Bronze Medal
Cargo screening is important for checking shipping containers for illegal or dangerous materials. X-rays are often used, but they are harmful and expensive. A newer method, called Muon Tomog…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Bronze Medal
Many people with Level I and II Cerebral Palsy lack the awareness to how much grip force they use in daily life. SENSE stands for Sensory Enhanced Neuro Support Electronic. SENSE utilizes Fo…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Bronze Medal
The purpose of this research is to evaluate how much influence social visibility plays on decision-making among adolescents by isolating social cost perception as a variable. In the three ex…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Bronze Medal
Have you ever wondered what’s in your soil? Farmers do all the time! However, costly and time consuming measurement techniques make understanding soil and the effect of agricultural manageme…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 27B (SCA27B) is a rare neurogenetic condition that mainly affects balance. The condition was only discovered in 2023, but is already proving to be a common cause…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Bronze Medal
StabiliT is a wearable that is designed to help improve movement stability for individuals who develop tremors as a side effect of neurological illnesses like Essential tremor and Parkinson'…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
Les arbres sont bien plus que du bois; ils constituent notre première ligne de défense contre le changement climatique en séquestrant activement le carbone atmosphérique. Pourtant, cette val…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Bronze Medal
As of early 2026, an estimated 1.2 to 1.5 million people in Canada have vision loss or blindness. This is projected to rise to 2 million by 2050. According to the Canadian council of the bli…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Bronze Medal
We developed a system called TILES to help students learn the Thai flute more easily and accurately. Learning this instrument is very detailed, and many students struggle because they do not…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Bronze Medal
The idea for this project originated from understanding the risks of drinking contaminated tap water in communities under long-term boil water advisories. It also arose from observing high g…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Late stage cancers are often very hard to treat due to the tumor environment weakening the body's immune system, especially natural killer (NK) cells that normally destroy harmful cells. In…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
Rising temperatures associated with climate change pose increasing concern for many wildlife species, including nesting birds. The purpose of this project was to build, test, and evaluate th…
CWSF · 2026
Energy Bronze Medal
Climate change has created an urgent need for sustainable energy solutions. My project investigates whether a wind tunnel can be used to recover wasted kinetic energy. By adding a Vertical A…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Speech and voice changes can serve as noninvasive indicators of disease, particularly in respiratory, neurological, and psychiatric conditions, where subtle changes in phonation, tone, or ar…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
Every year, we use tonnes of road salt to make roads and driveways safer for us to drive on, but have we ever considered how this affects our environment? In my research, I aimed to solve th…