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CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change
Can biochar be used to create an effective septic system filter? I live on Seymour Lake, where we experience harmful algae blooms, so this is an important question for my community. Most pho…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change
This project explores a new way to boost algae so it can clean polluted water and capture carbon much faster. I built 32 mini bioreactors and experimented with Chlorella vulgaris by adding g…
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
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
Aerospace
In orbital simulations, mathematical methods called integrators are used to predict paths of objects in space over long time periods, however, in highly elliptical orbits, integrators requir…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
In this project I tried to find new and simple ways to produce clean water anywhere in my community, or out on the land. Access to clean water for drinking and household use in my community…
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
Brain tumors, including glioma, meningioma, and pituitary tumors, are diagnosed too late, too inconsistently, and too far from where most people live; AI was supposed to fix all three. It ha…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology
Improper waste sorting is a common but critical issue, often leading to recycling contamination and increased landfill use. With the introduction of Ontario’s producer-led recycling system i…
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
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
2.3 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, world wide. One of the main tools to decide the treatment is tumor grade, or aggressiveness of the cancer cells. Yet, the patho…
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 Gold Medal
The hazelnut industry faces severe threats from the hazelnut weevil (Curculio nucum), with infestations affecting up to 80% of yields. Relying on pesticides is environmentally unsustainable,…
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
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
Aerospace Bronze Medal
Wildfires are becoming an increasing concern as climate change decreases rainfall, increases lightning storms, and causes earlier snow melt. Most wildfires are in northern Canada, and often…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), otherwise known as "forever chemicals," are a group of highly stable, bioaccumulative, and toxic synthetic chemicals used in a wide range of consu…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology
Words are how we preserve our history, our culture, and our identity here at Island Lake. Words we use every day are slowly being lost. I wanted to make a difference. Our Science teacher, El…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
In Garden Hill First Nation, I have seen that many people deal with dry skin, especially when it gets cold. Since our community is remote and only accessible by plane, getting medicine and s…
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
Health & Wellness Bronze Medal
My project is about making functional prosthetic hands more accessible and affordable than a smartphone. To achieve this, I use 3D printing to create lightweight, customizable parts that tra…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
My project is investigating the anti-microbial properties of sage. In this investigation I decided to test sages ability to fight bacteria. Sage is traditionally a medicinal plant that is co…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity
The experimentally observed membrane leakage ratio of 2 potassium ions out to 3 sodium ions in is inadequately explained by classical processes. This project proposes ions quantum tunnelling…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Gold Medal
Labrador tea is a common northern herbal medicine used Indigenous communities to maintain overall health. This study aimed at investigating whether polyphenolic compounds found in Labrador t…
CWSF · 2026
Energy Bronze Medal
Operating conditions inside nuclear reactors promote material degradation, inhibiting the maturity of nuclear capabilities. In pressurized water reactors (PWRs), heat exchanger materials are…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food
Cows and sheep waste about a third of the energy in their hay because their bodies cannot fully break it down, and all that undigested grass produces methane, a gas that warms the planet. Th…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Bronze Medal
With a growing and aging population taking an increasing number of prescription medications every year, adverse drug reactions are becoming increasingly common. Despite this, most clinical d…
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…