Browse real student projects, abstracts, and awards.
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
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
Heart disease currently affects roughly 6 million Canadians, with emerging research indicating that up to one-third of individuals with underlying cardiometabolic conditions will develop myo…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Gold Medal
Many people struggle to take medications correctly, leading to missed doses and potential hospitalizations. Existing pill dispensers require someone to read each label, hand-load pills into…
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
Natural Resources
Plastic pollution is a major issue, and most plastics are made from materials that are limited and non-renewable. To investigate this, I created several bioplastics using natural materials s…
CWSF · 2026
Energy
Millions of sensors in bridges and infrastructure require battery replacements every year, which creates toxic waste and consumes resources. However, there is a free source of energy all aro…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Silver Medal
I created RAISE (Recovery Analytics and Intensity Surveillance Engine) as an individualized early-warning system to prevent Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S), a condition where an…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Dementia is a global health concern that affects approximately 57 million senior citizens worldwide. This condition presents as a variety of behavioral, cognitive, and physical symptoms that…
CWSF · 2026
Natural Resources Silver Medal
Water pollution is poisoning aquatic ecosystems and threatening human health, with 73% of Indigenous water systems described as "medium or high risk" (The Council of Canadians), while curren…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Silver Medal
Radon is a harmful gas that can build up inside homes and increase the risk of lung cancer, especially in places like Alberta. This project developed and tested a device, "SMART-RADON", to m…
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
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
1 out of 4 patients die within 3 months of a bloodstream infection from Staphylococcus aureus (S.aureus) [1]. Currently, both first-line and even last-resort antibiotics are mainly ineffecti…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Silver Medal
The fuel carried by a spacecraft limits how far and how long it can travel in space and orbit planets. My project, VARION (Versatile Atmospheric Ion Thruster), is about utilizing atmospheric…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology
2.2 billion people worldwide live with vision impairment, yet no existing assistive device offers a true level of independence in real-world conditions. VisionIQ is an AI-powered wearable bu…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Silver Medal
Each year, 82,000 Canadians die from heart disease and stroke, 40,000 experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, 100,000 are hospitalized due to falls, and 4.3 million live with undiagnosed…