CYSF · 2025
Expanding Humanity’s Horizons: Our Journey Beyond Earth
Exploration of multiple celestial bodies and habitation realities, quantum computing integration, skimming over Earth's health and possible issues.
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CYSF · 2025
Experiencing Mars: Can it be our New Home ?
Gold Medal
Mars is an inhospitable planet and is not easy to industrialize as there are many challenges but with technology we can enter the era of interplanetary travel. In this project we will deal w…
CYSF · 2025
Experimental Optimization of Vortex Generators in Boundary Layer Separation Mitigation on a NACA 2412 Airfoil
Gold Medal
This project investigates the optimization of vortex generator spacing and placement on a NACA 2412 airfoil to delay boundary layer separation, boosting stall resistance and aerodynamic perf…
CYSF · 2025
Exploring 3 Robotic Computer Vision Models and Their Effective Ranges
Silver Medal
We will look at 3 different ways to identify objects and faces with computer vision models. These include object recognition, face recognition, and face tracking. How they can be applied to…
CYSF · 2025
Exploring Carbon Sequestration: The Good, the Drawbacks, and the Path Forward
Bronze Medal
Analyzing and understanding the world of carbon capture and the role it has and continues to play in our society today, while also addressing the major issues and the steps we could take in…
CYSF · 2025
Exploring The Design And Physics of Solar Sails, Including Their Applications in a Telescope at the Solar Gravitational Lens (SGL)
Silver Medal
Understanding solar sail theoretical physics, types, design, and applications as a transport method for an innovative mission to the Solar Gravitational Lens (SGL) to directly image exoplane…
CYSF · 2025
Exploring Tidal Stream Technology
Exploring the possibilities of tidal wave renewable energy, challenges to be overcome, and how to spread the technology to areas vulnerable to blackout.
CYSF · 2025
Exploring Tornadoes - Can they be stopped?
Silver Medal
Exploring tornadoes, freak weather systems, as well as their destructive powers and how modern day climate is affecting them and their production.
CYSF · 2025
Eye See
Determining what causes some people to have poor vision
CYSF · 2025
Eyes of the Future: Locating Cancerous Tumors within the human lungs with the assistance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
Silver Medal
CNNs programmed on Python are capable of properly identifying malignant tumors within the lungs from Computed Tomography scans (CTs) at a minimum accuracy of 80% in the span of one week.
CYSF · 2025
Fact or Myth: Do Deeper Pools Result in Faster Swim Times?
Gold Medal
I want to see if deeper pools decrease a swimmer’s time. Two swimmers as well as myself will swim three different 50-meter events in a 3m+ pool I will compare those times to their 2m competi…
CYSF · 2025
Fast Food!
We talked about the unhealthy effects of fast food and about some healthier options.
CYSF · 2025
fermentation
Gold Medal
which type of vinagar will make the best tasting pickles
CYSF · 2025
Fermentation Frenzy: The Temp-Concentration Connection
Silver Medal
I am testing if the temperature of yeast will affect its fermentation rate with sugar.
CYSF · 2025
Filter Fun
Silver Medal
I filtered water through different materials to determine what got it the cleanest.
CYSF · 2025
Filtering The Future
In this project, we aim to create an affordable and easy-to-use water filtration system designed to provide clean drinking water for people living in areas with contaminated water sources. U…
CYSF · 2025
Finding Bombs with Electromagnetism: Testing a metal detector's capabilities in water and sand
Gold Medal
I tested a metal detector for its reliability in finding different metals. The metal detector was also tested for its ability to detect metal in sand and under water.
CYSF · 2025
Finding Hope: Analysing Crises Using Machine Learning and a Statistical Analysis of Data and News
Silver Medal
A humanitarian aid website that shows an in depth analysis of data from trustworthy sources. This analysis is then provided in an understandable manner for humanitarian analysts to use.
CYSF · 2025
Finding Microplastics in Food
An AI-powered device to detect microplastics in food guarding the health and safety of consumers.
CYSF · 2025
Fire Fighting Robot
My project is Fire Fighting Robot, it detects flames and then moves toward the fire to extinguish it. This can be very helpful in the future of robots where robot will do everything that hum…
CYSF · 2025
Fire -Resistant Plants: The Future of Preventing Wildfires
Bronze Medal
Through this project, we hope to investigate the role fire-resistant plants play in preventing the spread of forest fires as well as improving the resilience of forests.
CYSF · 2025
Flattening the Globe
Bronze Medal
I attempted to flatten and project a sphere to a flat surface with multiple methods
CYSF · 2025
Food For Thought
What we are trying to find out is if someone is telling you something it will change the way you taste.
CYSF · 2025
Food Vs. Fuel
Silver Medal
I am making bio diesel from micro algae, and will also make a dry powder, this will represent a food source, as it is very nutritionally dense. I am comparing the amount of energy required t…
CYSF · 2025
Forensic Psychology Research
This project is a detailed research behind the vast study of forensics.
CYSF · 2025
Forest Fire Frenzy
Gold Medal
In this experiment I will test the effect of fire extinguisher chemicals on plants after a forest fire occurs.
CYSF · 2025
Forest Restoration Using Drone Technology
Silver Medal
This project is about, how technology can be used to help us humans to slow down the rate of climate change by using seed firing drones to plant trees and restore forests that have been dest…
CYSF · 2025
From Cosmic Chaos to Planetary Perfection: A Simulation of the Formation of Solar System
My Project will offer a simple simulation of how the Solar System might have formed I did a couple of experiments to answer the question.
CYSF · 2025
from fuel to motion
How different car engines work
CYSF · 2025
From Gross to Great
Silver Medal
I will be testing the theory of eating a hated food multiple times and see if it differs when hungry or full.