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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
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
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
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
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
Aerospace Bronze Medal
When two galaxies collide, they should leave behind visible scars. But some collisions happen in massive, old galaxies where the evidence fades so fast that every detection tool declares the…
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
Aerospace
A death in search and rescue can happen in minutes, especially in the harsh climate of the North. With oblique wing drones we could lessen that through more speed control and efficiency, bot…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace
This project explores a biomimetic approach to radiation shielding by using melanin-inspired materials, specifically polydopamine, combined with carbon fiber to create a lightweight composit…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Gold Medal
The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the biggest unanswered questions in physics, all while current methods remain challenged with accurately distinguishing between different DM mod…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace
My Question was, do Different shapes of ion engines affect the amount of force they create? I took a common design off the internet, and I designed a few of my own to test against each other…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace
We are all familiar with the conventional parachute. However in recent years, a new variety of parachute — which draws elements from the Japanese art of kirigami, has been in development by…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace
Notre projet vise a étudier l'effet du changement des variables d'une aile d'avion, (comme sa forme ou l'épaisseur de son bord d'attaque), sur la portance que celle-ci produit. Nous soufflon…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Bronze Medal
Since its founding in 2007, Galaxy Zoo participants have helped scientists classify hundreds of millions of galaxies and played a crucial role in examining large astronomical data sets (Pear…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Silver Medal
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are supermassive black holes found at the centre of galaxies. AGN BL Lacertae contains an accretion disk and high-energy jets emitted perpendicular to the disk,…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace
Drag reduction is crucial for the aviation industry: a 1.1% reduction can save billions of dollars annually and benefit the environment, yet passive flow-control for aircrafts at cruising-co…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace
This project is an investigation of how lift is affected by the addition of dimples in various locations on an aerofoil. These dimples were inspired by those found on golf balls, which are k…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace
Have you noticed how a rubber band resists and wants to get back to its equilibrium state when you stretch it? What if our universe behaved the same way? The current most likely fate of our…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Silver Medal
Commercial aircraft design has remained relatively unchanged for decades, and the conventional design has been optimized to the point where large gains in efficiency are unlikely. Aviation i…
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
Aerospace
Space radiation effects us here on earth as well as effecting anything or anyone we send to space. The atmosphere is thinning and might not be able to protect us forever. Space travel contin…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Platinum Award
Even after nearly three decades of intense research, cosmology fails to fully explain the physical origin of the universe's accelerated expansion. The standard model of cosmology, ΛCDM, asso…