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CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Every 40 seconds someone has a stroke and up to 30% are caused by a heart condition called atrial fibrillation that produces zero warning signs until it's too late. We built a portable heart…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Silver Medal
AISentry is a waterproof, customizable, and user-friendly sentry capable of detecting, locking onto, and engaging with any humans or other objects, (𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑠) in a given area. It works by aut…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions, characterized by accumulation of amyloid beta oligomers causing neuronal dysfunction. The ubiquitin-proteasome system…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Silver Medal
The Optimal Transport Problem arises in fields such as AI, machine learning, computer vision and biology. The problem seeks the cheapest way to transport mass between two distributions. The…
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
Natural Resources Silver Medal
Across the US and Canada, approximately 260,000 water main breaks occur every year, one every two minutes. Deteriorating pipeline infrastructure has become a prevalent problem in the 21st ce…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Silver Medal
With limited capacity to store food on spacecrafts NASA is currently investigating growing foods, in particular lettuce, while in flight and on other planets. Managing food contamination is…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Silver Medal
A Technical Method of Responsive Cellophane Films for Real Time Spoilage Detection is a scientific innovation experiment that identifies and tests a cellophane film fabricated with red cabba…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Silver Medal
Our project tackles a big challenge: helping drones think and react more like humans in real time. Instead of relying on slow or limited systems, we designed a custom-built electronics platf…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Silver Medal
Oral diseases affect nearly 3.7 billion people worldwide, making them one of the planet’s most widespread and neglected health burdens. Although largely preventable, these conditions often p…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Silver Medal
Decoding Communication Using Brainwaves.
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Silver Medal
Your body tells the truth: 47% people underestimate their stress! Standard bots hallucinate and ignore physical limits. We fix this by syncing real-time body data with professional AI and im…
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
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Cystic fibrosis is a disease that causes difficulty breathing and digestive problems because a certain protein in the body is mutated and therefore does not work properly. Using computationa…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Bloodstream infections are life-threatening and frequently bacterial, requiring rapid initiation of species-specific antibiotic treatment. Gram staining provides initial bacterial characteri…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Undetected and untreated infected wounds are a global leading cause of undiagnosed illness, especially in developing countries. Derma-Heal is designed to address this unattended crisis by de…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Silver Medal
Water biocontamination is a global health crisis. The microbial blooms in biocontaminated water cause many different infectious diseases and lead to over 1.7 million annual deaths worldwide.…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Silver Medal
Canadian emergency rooms face a systemic crisis, with patients routinely waiting over 20 hours on stretchers. ERgo is a discrete-event simulation engine designed to tackle the chronic overcr…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Silver Medal
The parasite Toxoplasma gondii infects up to 1/3 of the global population (Habtye et al., 2023). Immunocompromised individuals face a high risk of parasite reactivation, which can cause seve…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Silver Medal
EvoNash: Accelerating Convergence to Nash Equilibrium Investigating Adaptive Mutation Rates in Genetic Neural Networks This experiment investigates the efficiency of evolutionary algorithms…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Silver Medal
I chose this project because wildfires are becoming a bigger problem in Canada. they can affect forests, wildlife, air quality, and nearby communities. I wanted to see if a machine learning…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Silver Medal
Growing labour shortages and an aging population have created urgent demand for robotic systems capable of assisting across healthcare, elder care, and household settings. Existing approache…
CWSF · 2026
Natural Resources Silver Medal
Every year, millions of tonnes of old clothing end up in landfills. But what if your worn-out jeans could keep a house warm instead? This project explored whether recycled materials could wo…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Silver Medal
I am working to create a biodegradable alternative that could help replace plastic because I am worried about the effects of plastics, particularly microplastics on animals, human health, an…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Silver Medal
Symbioses between algae and heterotrophs offer blueprints for bioengineering, challenging standard views on autotrophic efficiency. The partnership between the green alga Oophila amblystomat…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Silver Medal
Cement manufacturing currently accounts for 8% of global anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions, largely due to the calcination of limestone in the mass production of Ordinary Portland…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Silver Medal
Cleaning eavestroughs is dangerous. Each year in the United States alone there are over 300 deaths caused by falls from ladders (American Ladder Institute, 2018). I made Gutterpillar to asce…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Silver Medal
Every 9 seconds, one person dies from diabetes, yet current technologies have significant limitations. I engineered a first-of-a-kind hybrid Physics-ML "glass-box" engine reconstructing each…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP), affecting about 1 in 4,000 people, is the most common inherited retinal disease. A common cause of RP is the P23H mutation in rhodopsin, which causes the protein 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…