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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
Natural Resources Gold Medal
Much of the ocean remains unmonitored, allowing harmful human activities such as illegal fishing to drive marine ecosystem collapse. To address this, an autonomous, sail-powered trimaran was…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
Anorexia Nervosa is a severe psychiatric disorder that primarily impacts teenage girls. This condition is especially challenging due to the lack of concrete biomarkers, such as structural ch…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Silver Medal
My projects started because I wanted to help my dad, who has celiac disease. While learning about gluten detection, I discovered aptamers which are tiny pieces of DNA that can stick to speci…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Platinum Award
Sepsis claims 11 million lives annually, but current diagnostics are costly and often ineffective. Aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA sequences that are promising for detecting proteomi…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Platinum Award
About 55% of the estimated 25,000 near-Earth-asteroids 140 metres or larger remain undetected, with millions more in the main belt uncatalogued. The 2013 Chelyabinsk event, where a 19-metre…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Silver Medal
Decoding Communication Using Brainwaves.
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Gold Medal
The plastic mulch film, a plastic sheet applied to agricultural soils, increases crop yield through its benefits such as moisture retention and weed suppression. However, due to their potent…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Gold Medal
Inspired by the discovery of elemental sulfur on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Rover, my research determines whether the presence of reduced sulfur (sulfur with extra electrons) can indicate life…
CWSF · 2026
Natural Resources Silver Medal
The Miura-Ori origami repeating parallelogram pattern was invented by Kōryō Miura, an astrophysicist investigating solutions on how large, thin metal sheets can be folded into a small space.…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Gold Medal
By 2052, one quarter of the population will be over the age of 65, with adults over 85 the fastest growing segment. Supporting older adults to age well is a national priority. This project e…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Platinum Award
When my father was hospitalized, overworked staff struggled to check his vitals regularly. That experience led me to remote heart-rate monitoring, then to a deeper problem: optical heart-rat…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Gold Medal
Microplastics (MPs), are emerging as a significant environmental and health pollutant of increasing global concern. MPs, defined as tiny water-insoluble plastic particles less than 5mm in si…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Platinum Award
Over 98% of potential therapeutics for neurological diseases fail because they cannot cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Current screening methods for novel ligands often focus too heavily…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Platinum Award
Fungal pathogens pose an enormous threat to global health, and a growing number of pathogens are developing resistance to our limited arsenal of antifungals. Overexpression of efflux pumps t…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Silver Medal
The prevalence of microplastic pollution in aquatic environments is a significant global concern. However, quantifying microplastics using conventional laboratory-based methods is costly and…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Gold Medal
Iron deficiency affects over 2 billion people, but current treatments are limited by gastrointestinal side effects, slow response, adherence challenges or are expensive. Micro-needles consis…
CWSF · 2026
Energy Bronze Medal
Anaerobic Digestion is a process for breaking down organics in an oxygen-free environment. A by-product of this digestion is biogas; a methane-rich gas that can be used for energy production…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Silver Medal
Deafblindness is a combined disability of vision and hearing impairments that create significant challenges to communication and information access. Many deafblind individuals rely on interv…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Silver Medal
Have you dealt with pesky squirrels raiding your bird feeder? This project tested whether the colour of an object affects how much squirrels are attracted to it, and if this is related to ho…
CWSF · 2026
Energy Silver Medal
Cooking smoke kills millions each year, but most solutions need electricity or expensive fuel. Can the fire itself power a fan to remove the smoke? This project develops a self powered smoke…
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
Environment & Climate Change Silver Medal
Lead pollution is a major environmental and health problem, and current industrial treatments are damaging to the environment in both production and end-of-life disposal. In this project, Ce…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Gold Medal
Food waste is a major issue in Canada, with much of it happening at the household level due to confusion about best-before dates. Many people throw away food that is still usable or rely on…
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
Health & Wellness Gold Medal
Many patients are injured when IV fluids accidentally leak into their skin instead of staying in the vein. This causes painful swelling and bruising, and it happens to nearly 1 in 10 people.…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Platinum Award
Even after nearly three decades of intense research, cosmology fails to fully explain the physical origin of the universe's accelerated expansion. The standard model of cosmology, ΛCDM, asso…