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CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer with a 5-year survival rate of less than 10%. My project focused on using Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) as a vessel for gene t…
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
Disease & Illness
Imagine if we could control how cells behave when there is a disease in our body. Scientists are doing this by targeting the tiny survival manual inside our cells called DNA with a tool call…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Bronze Medal
In this project I built and tested a pair of glasses with integrated LCD lenses and light sensor. The glasses use a custom designed frequency analysis algorithm to detect the difference betw…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Dementia and Alzheimer's disease are leading problems for seniors today, affecting millions of individuals worldwide. Symptoms of these conditions include cognitive impairment, personality c…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Bronze Medal
When writing braille by hand, the writer will often use a braille slate. Using a standard braille slate, they write from the back of the page, which creates a unique challenge as the letters…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Swallowing pills can be a massive fear and nuisance, that begs the question; does the size of pharmaceutical capsules affect how fast they dissolve in our bodies? There were three capsule si…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Bronze Medal
Visually impaired people often face challenges in safely navigating their environment due to limited awareness of surrounding objects. Traditional canes primarily detect ground-level obstacl…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Every 40 seconds someone has a stroke and up to 30% are caused by a heart condition called atrial fibrillation that produces zero warning signs until it's too late. We built a portable heart…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Silver Medal
AISentry is a waterproof, customizable, and user-friendly sentry capable of detecting, locking onto, and engaging with any humans or other objects, (𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑠) in a given area. It works by aut…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Our project focuses on using statistical measures to make comparisons between the different factors that can affect Alzheimer’s disease cognitive trajectories. Firstly, we conducted a meta-a…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Invisible to the naked eye but potentially harmful to our health, airborne bacteria are a hidden threat that demand an effective mitigation strategy. This study investigated the effect of sa…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions, characterized by accumulation of amyloid beta oligomers causing neuronal dysfunction. The ubiquitin-proteasome system…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
Nearly 50% of IVF embryos arrest before they become viable pregnancies, and the molecular mechanisms causing this failure remain poorly understood. The Digital Embryo is the first multi-omic…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change
An Attractive Solution: An innovative way to clean up oil spills How can we clean up oil spills with nano technology? Using small scale experiments with ferro fluid, testing was done to see…
CWSF · 2026
Natural Resources Bronze Medal
With the advance of climate change comes added stresses to forests such as increased risk of forest fires due to heat and drought, as well as stresses like increased salt and oxidative stres…
CWSF · 2026
Natural Resources Gold Medal
Much of the ocean remains unmonitored, allowing harmful human activities such as illegal fishing to drive marine ecosystem collapse. To address this, an autonomous, sail-powered trimaran was…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Pediatric Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of death for children worldwide [1], largely due to slow or incorrect diagnosis [2]. Even with advancements in machine learning, modern AI…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
In an age of rising conflict, there has been a significant increase in limb loss especially for the pediatric population. Yet the sustainability and cost associated with traditional prosthet…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
Anorexia Nervosa is a severe psychiatric disorder that primarily impacts teenage girls. This condition is especially challenging due to the lack of concrete biomarkers, such as structural ch…
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
Digital Technology Silver Medal
The Optimal Transport Problem arises in fields such as AI, machine learning, computer vision and biology. The problem seeks the cheapest way to transport mass between two distributions. The…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Bronze Medal
Microchips are the roots to the rise of AI in the 21st century. Cooling them is a critical task as they produce large amounts of heat and need to stay at a specific functioning temperature ~…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Bronze Medal
Pacific salmon stocks have great economic and cultural significance to Canadians. In recent years, many salmon species have been listed as at risk in salmon conservation assessments. An unde…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Silver Medal
My projects started because I wanted to help my dad, who has celiac disease. While learning about gluten detection, I discovered aptamers which are tiny pieces of DNA that can stick to speci…
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
Environment & Climate Change
Every year, millions of tonnes of tiny plastic pieces called microplastics pollute harbours, lakes, and oceans, harming fish, birds, and the ecosystems people depend on. Harbours are especia…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Extreme temperatures pose significant threats to human health. Each year, millions of deaths are linked to cold-related conditions, while extreme heat causes around 489,000 deaths. Early sym…
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
Natural Resources Silver Medal
Across the US and Canada, approximately 260,000 water main breaks occur every year, one every two minutes. Deteriorating pipeline infrastructure has become a prevalent problem in the 21st ce…