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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 Bronze Medal
Human rabies is a zoonotic viral disease transmitted from animals to humans, and is virtually 100% fatal post-symptom onset, primarily due to the virus's ability to evade the immune system a…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
Antibiotic resistance is one of the most urgent crises in global health, and the first step in fighting it is correctly identifying whether a bacterium is Gram-positive or Gram-negative — a…
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
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
Chaque année, environ 15 millions de nouveau-nés naissent prématurément à travers le monde. Parmi eux, les grands prématurés, nés à 22 semaines de gestation, se trouvent dans une situation p…
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
Health & Wellness
I started my science fair project last year. I used a smartwatch to monitor my REM sleep. I ate different types of food before bed to see if it would affect my sleep cycle. The smartwatch I…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Congenital heart defects (CHDs), which affect nearly 1% of live births worldwide, arise from disruptions in tightly regulated signaling pathways governing early cardiac morphogenesis. This p…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Bronze Medal
In this digital age, we give away our data everyday; by accepting website cookies or wearing smartwatches that track everything from heart rate to sleep cycles. The data we generate can be u…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are an important component of a leading drug delivery system. They protect the medicine they carry, increasing its bioavailability and stability and notably used i…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Ultrasound imaging is an advanced tool used to examine internal structures of the human body, while light imaging is commonly used in laboratories to examine smaller structures. But how well…
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
Disease & Illness
Le GBA1 est un gène associé à la maladie de Parkinson qui n’est que partiellement comprise même à ce jour. Pour tenter de tirer au clair les effets de l’inflammation et du silençage du GBA1,…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Millions of people are affected by chronic wounds each year because they are extremely difficult to treat due to protective biofilms that block treatment. Current wound care methods are ofte…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Critical bone defects remain a major clinical challenge, often requiring pre-formed grafts or substitutes that can trigger inflammatory responses and delay healing. This project focuses on d…
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
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
Conventional chemotherapy often fails due to systemic toxicity and acquired drug resistance. To address this, I developed a multi-targeted therapeutic matrix using synergistic phytochemicals…
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
Health & Wellness
We studied about first nations fasting and what it does for the body, we went to our elders and offered tobacco for information and knowledge. Our elders gave us lots of information for our…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Bronze Medal
Tamarack bark tea is a traditional tea consumed by the Aboriginal people of Canada. It is primarily made up of the bark of Larix laricina to help with the health of the brain. Although the t…
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
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Considering the prevalence and life-altering nature of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), why is it so difficult to diagnose? Within recent years, much research has linked changes in the gut microbio…
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
Dementia effects almost One-Million Canadians, and has no cure, with current treatments having severe side-effects. This experiment aimed to explore the effectiveness of high-frequency pulse…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
I am Khloe Sandy ,a proud Dakota Indigenous girl. I wanted to try making an eyeliner at home that's safe and natural since many eyeliners in stores contain chemicals that are not good for th…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
The real question is, can you make a water filter out of materials you can get only in your home? We wanted to create a water filter system that could be made household materials that you co…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
My project explores the reason Artifical Intelligence makes errors when diagnosing chest x-ray scans. To do this I developed an AI model and ran several experiments to find the root cause of…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Music makes us inspired, sad, angry, happy and nostalgic And there are really good reasons to listen to music every day; listening to music gives us a lot of benefits that we can take advant…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
This science fair project investigated whether cellphone distraction affects short-term memory recall. The experiment involved two groups of participants: one group completed the task withou…