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…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Obesity increased the occurrence of diabetes in America, leading many to seek “healthier” alternatives and use of sweeteners. This project determined how sugar and different artificial sweet…
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…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Is it possible to affect the answer to a question by altering the way you ask it? Yes it is. I surveyed around 45 people in total to see exactly how much question wording can change opinions…
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Sleep deprivation is a widespread public health issue that is known to impair many areas of cognitive function mainly due to its normalization in today's modern society. Yet, its effects und…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) are tiny particles containing biomaterials that have been noted for their regenerative capabilities and potential, especially for treating neurodegenerative dise…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Purpose: Current anti-cancer adoptive cell immunotherapies have three major hurdles: extraction and preservation of autologous cells; engineering, expansion, and activation of cells ex vivo;…
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder affecting approximately 50 million people worldwide and involves repeated seizures from abnormal neuron firing. Around 60% of patients have non-convulsive…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Bronze Medal
Over 2.5 million people living with motor impairments like Amyotrophic-Lateral-Sclerosis and Quadriplegia depend entirely on caregivers, as their only remaining capability is eye-blinks. Yet…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
First Award
Tumor growth in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) – the most prevalent form of lung cancer, with a 5-year survival rate below 20% – is promoted by abnormal vasculature. Importantly, the mechanisms…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
With 1 in 10 Americans having a food allergy and half of them experiencing potentially fatal reactions, food allergies are a major problem. Allergies are the result of a person’s immune syst…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often co-occurs alongside attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), potenti…
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
ASD is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects up to 3% of children. Though behavioral tests exist, there are no definitive genetic tests that measure the onset of ASD, leaving 25% of in…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Traditional cancer research has largely focused on well-characterized proteins, leaving approximately 40–50% of the human proteome—the "dark proteome"—poorly understood and potentially rich…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Radiation therapy is a cornerstone of cancer treatment, but radiation-induced skin injury remains a significant clinical challenge. This study aims for precise, controlled irradiation with a…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Parkinson’s disease progression is exacerbated by chronic neuroinflammation and excessive microglial activation, making inflammatory pathways promising therapeutic targets. Among these strat…
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that is identified by cognitive decline, including memory loss and an impaired ability to perform daily, normal tasks, which leads to…
Translational Medical Science
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for 85% of all lung cancers and can develop resistance to current therapies. This creates an urgent need for more effective and targeted treatment…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Bronze Medal
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's are predominantly framed as problems of protein accumulation and downstream clearance, implicitly assuming that pathogenic conformations are su…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
T-cell malignancies are aggressive hematologic cancers with limited targeted treatment options and high relapse rates. These malignancies are characterized by the overexpression of the PD-1…
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…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In trauma and mass casualty events, hemorrhage remains a leading cause of preventable death as definitive car is often delayed by limited access to safe, compatible donor blood. Deployment o…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Approximately 5-10% of students experience dyslexia[1], a neurodevelopmental reading disorder often identified after prolonged difficulties in reading development[2]. Standard screening appr…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Visual information is detected and encoded in the retina through dozens of parallel pathways, with each pathway encoding a specific aspect of what we see. Each pathway is associated with a s…