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CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Bronze Medal
Many people with Level I and II Cerebral Palsy lack the awareness to how much grip force they use in daily life. SENSE stands for Sensory Enhanced Neuro Support Electronic. SENSE utilizes Fo…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
On entend parler de cette fameuse pilule bleue, ce remède magique pour les hommes souffrant de dysfonction érectile, mais qu’en est-il des traitements pour les femmes souffrant de dysfonctio…
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
Curiosity & Ingenuity
Shocking Solution Shocking Solution is an innovation class project based upon the synthesis of rubies utilizing water based fuel. In order to create the intense heat required to crystalize t…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology
Radon is an invisible, odourless gas that can cause lung cancer. In Nova Scotia, more than one-third of homes exceed the safe limit set by Health Canada. Many families use affordable sensors…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
My project is about building a wearable device that can detect signs of silent aspiration, a condition where food or liquid enters the airway without causing a cough. This is important becau…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology
My project is based on helping solve safety hazards for Deaf/Hard of Hearing or Deaf-blind individuals. For this project, I used Arduino to program an alarm system that will alert people thr…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Verbal communication is a fundamental aspect of our daily lives, yet millions of people struggle to speak clearly due to speech disorders. These speech disorders include Dysarthria, a speech…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology
Bulky waste collection is currently plagued by “phantom routes,” where heavy trucks drive through empty streets searching for items, wasting up to 32% of operational budgets and significant…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Silver Medal
Non-Polar Organic Contaminants (NPOCs), including Chlorinated Organic Pollutants (Cl-OPs), oils, and Benzene, Toluene, Ethyl Benzene, Xylene (BTEX), are harmful contaminants that threaten ma…
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
Digital Technology
I developed an app called SmartScrolling, which uses AI to help the app detect misinformation on social media platforms. I am working to turn it into a pop-up widget that appears when you ar…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
I created a wearable diagnostic device that helps people see how their knees are doing to prevent injury risk. Whether in sports or casual physical activity, our bodies experience a lot of s…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food
My project examines how vegetable nutrient trends change throughout the winter, whether they differ by food source and which option is most cost-effective and has the least carbon impact. Fo…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Bronze Medal
The purpose of this research is to evaluate how much influence social visibility plays on decision-making among adolescents by isolating social cost perception as a variable. In the three ex…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Silver Medal
Climate change is a pressing issue facing people around the globe. Its impacts are devastating: extreme weather events, droughts, water scarcity and wildfires like the one in Jasper two year…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Bronze Medal
Have you ever wondered what’s in your soil? Farmers do all the time! However, costly and time consuming measurement techniques make understanding soil and the effect of agricultural manageme…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity
Every year, millions of Canadian families bring a Christmas tree into their homes, set it up near the fireplace, decorate it with electric lights, and then...forget to water it. Last year, I…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food
Agricultural sustainability is threatened by soil salinization, a form of land degradation that reduces land use. Soil salinity disrupts water uptake and ion balance, which affects early pla…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 27B (SCA27B) is a rare neurogenetic condition that mainly affects balance. The condition was only discovered in 2023, but is already proving to be a common cause…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Bronze Medal
StabiliT is a wearable that is designed to help improve movement stability for individuals who develop tremors as a side effect of neurological illnesses like Essential tremor and Parkinson'…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity
The effects of short message service (SMS) messaging on driving ability were investigated. In this project, a virtual driving simulator was built and participants were challenged to race whi…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity
My project "Stitching for Strength" was designed to determine which suturing technique could hold the most amount of weight without ripping. For this project, I learned and practiced how to…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change
The construction of the Churchill River Diversion in 1976 and the last 50 years of its operation has decimated the Namao, which thrived in our river for centuries, almost to the point of ext…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
This project explores how different hormonal fluctuations during the menstrual cycle affect glucose levels in a controlled experiment. The four phases in the menstrual cycle include menstrua…
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
Curiosity & Ingenuity Silver Medal
Petroleum-based insulation foams make up a substantial portion of the global insulation market, yet they yield significant negative impacts on the environment. Current biobased alternatives…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change
Polylactide (PLA) is a biodegradable plastic which can be used as an alternative to current plastics, for purposes such as food containers and disposable utensils. PLA is currently inefficie…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
Les arbres sont bien plus que du bois; ils constituent notre première ligne de défense contre le changement climatique en séquestrant activement le carbone atmosphérique. Pourtant, cette val…
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…