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CYSF · 2026

Chemotherapy the cure for cancer

Chemotherapy, what it does to the body, what its made of, and how it works and helps patients with cancer.

CYSF · 2026

Chicken egg diffrerences

Me and my partner are testing if there is/what are the differences between free range chicken eggs and caged chicken eggs.

CWSF · 2026

Chill Out! Protecting Power Lines From Freezing Rain

Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal

Freezing rain can build up on power lines and cause serious damage, leading to power outages that affect safety, cost money, and disrupt services. In this project, I studied whether eco-frie…

Chitoflux: TFF-Optimized Chitosan Media Filtration System for Biofilm and Microplastic Inhibition

Environmental Engineering

Biofilms are communities of microorganisms that aggregate and grow on microplastic (MP) surfaces. Bacterial proximity strengthens antibiotic-resistance through the dissemination of antibioti…

Chitosan-Coated Biodegradable Containers for Extending Food Shelf Life

Materials Science

Food spoilage causes over 1.3 billion tons of global waste annually, largely due to microbial growth. This project investigated whether a chitosan-based antimicrobial coating applied to 3D-p…

CWSF · 2026

Chivohuitle

Agriculture, Fisheries & Food

Goat raising is of great importance in the Mixteca region of Puebla, as it is considered the region's traditional dish. However, as the season progresses and drought sets in, goats begin to…

Chlorine Neutralizing Shampoo

Chemistry (Senior Division)

Design and Testing of a Chlorine-Neutralizing Shampoo Edrea Banh / Noman Sangar / Rachel Wagner / Danyelle Forte Sheldon High School Biotechnology Academy Chlorine exposure in recreational a…

ChromaVer: Computer Vision Assisted Multimodal Colorimetric Sensing System Based on Anthocyanins and Curcumin pH-Responsive Indicators for Real-Time, Non-Invasive Assessment of Packaged Meat Freshness

Chemistry Fourth Award

Traditional “best-before” dates on packaged meat are often rough estimates that do not take real storage conditions into account which can increase the risk of consuming spoiled food, posing…

CWSF · 2026

Ciliafy - A Motion Assessment Framework for Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Diagnosis

Disease & Illness

Our lungs are kept healthy by hair-like structures called cilia, found in our nasal passages, that act as brooms, sweeping bacteria out of our lungs. Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) is a di…

CircuHeal: An Azobenzene-Based Photochemical Switching and Conductive Filler Reinforced Dual-Layer Polymer Film for Space Electronics Repair

Materials Science

Over 62 million tonnes of electronic waste are generated yearly, a figure projected to reach 74 million by 2030, with electronic circuit failure as a leading cause. Such failure is especiall…

CYSF · 2026

Clean Hands Contest

Gold Medal

My project is an experiment to see if which hand drying method leaves more bacteria on hands - hand dryers or paper towels.

CYSF · 2026

Cleaning Earth's Orbit

Silver Medal

How to clean up the growing threat of space debris efficiently. This project encompasses the standard trifold with thorough information, and what sets this apart, a prototype of the actual l…

Clean Vaccine: Assessing Antigen Recognition Using a Minimal Excipient Vaccine Formula

Translational Medical Science

Modern vaccines are effective but often depend on complex formulations containing depot-forming adjuvants and stabilizing excipients. Emerging approaches such as neoantigen cancer vaccines a…

CWSF · 2026

Clean Water Matters: Simple Filtration, Big Impact

Environment & Climate Change

Protecting (nipiy): Clean water is something many people take for granted. But for some First Nations communities in Canada, safe drinking water is still not always guaranteed. My project ex…

CLEAR: A Congestion-Limited, Event-Aware Reinforcement Learning Solution for Preventing Cooperation Collapse in Multi-Agent Systems

Software Design Fourth Award

Multi-agent AI systems are increasingly prevalent in various fields ranging from autonomous drone systems to healthcare assistant robots. Achieving success in complex environments requires e…

CYSF · 2026

Clear Doesn't Equal Safe Flow Rate as a Hidden Variable in Bacteria Removal Testing the Contact Time Hypothesis

Silver Medal

See which type of water filtration rate works the best (cleanest)

CWSF · 2026

Clearly Contaminated: Using Phase Contrast Microscopy to Reflect Microplastic Reality

Environment & Climate Change

This project examines the presence of microplastics in drinking water, including methods for their identification, potential impacts on human health, and comparisons with other research find…

ClearVision: A Novel Mitigation System Against Unknown Adversarial Attacks for Image Recognition AI Models

Computational Science (Senior Division) First Award

Adversarial attacks introduce image perturbations by manipulating input data, triggering AI image recognition models to misclassify images. These malicious attacks compromise real-world oper…

Clemastine Enhances Synaptic Plasticity and Neurovascular Function After Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion (CCH) seriously affects the well-being of the patient and has been proposed as a risk factor for cognitive impairment and dementia. While recent research has d…

Closing the Gap Between Healthcare and Privilege: Use of Feature Extraction, Supervised Multi-Class Clarification, and Statistical Pattern Recognition to Predict Gait Injury Class Labels

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Three in every ten people experience a gait injury in their lifetime, and two in ten people experience poverty. A lack of financial stability can cause insufficient treatment and potential w…

CYSF · 2026

Closing the Perception Gap: Smartphone UV Detection as a Behavioral Intervention for Sunscreen Misapplication

People apply only 20-50% of recommended sunscreen, unaware of this deficit because UV radiation is invisible. I experimentally proved this gap exists and created smartphone-based UV detectio…

CYSF · 2026

ClotGuard: Autonomous Hemostatic Treatment (Co-Founded with Sophia Dhami)

Gold Medal

An autonomous pre-applied patch that detects hemorrhage and transports platelets, via nanobots, directly to the site of bleeding to mitigate blood loss - UofC project supervisors: Jeff Ryzne…

Clutch: A Hybrid Electrostatic Dry Adhesive Climbing Robot

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award

Clutch is a hybrid electrostatic dry adhesive climbing robot, and is a culmination of a research and development project. For the past few decades, researchers have been trying to replicate…

C-MAP Braille, a Confusion Mapping Adaptive System for Accelerated Braille Literacy

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Braille literacy rates collapsed from over 50% four decades ago to under 10% today (National Federation of the Blind, 2020), driven by instructor shortages and fixed curricula unable to adap…

CNOT9/DBN1 Actin Dysregulation in QNBC Metastasis & Heterogeneity

Biochemistry Fourth Award

Metastatic triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive form of breast cancer, with a 5-year survival rate of 12%. Mesenchymal quadruple negative breast cancer (QNBC) is a mol…

Code of Canid Diversity: Identifying Mutations Driving Sheepdog Behavior Using Deep Learning

Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Senior Division)

The vast number of mutations within a genome makes it a central challenge in genomics to determine the process behind how mutations result in phenotypic diversity. Humans have bred dogs over…

Code of the Rings: Using Handwriting Changes to Detect Early Signs of Parkinson's

Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)

Parkinson’s Disease(PD) is a progressive neurological disorder that destroys the brain cells that produce dopamine, resulting in movement-related symptoms such as tremors, and stiffness. In…

Co-Expression of CD34, ERß, and GPER in Breast Cancer: An Immunofluorescence Analysis of Tumor–Vascular Interactions

Translational Medical Science

Breast cancer progression is influenced by estrogen receptor signaling and tumor angiogenesis, yet the biological association between these pathways remains incompletely understood. The purp…

CYSF · 2026

Cognitive Holograms: Predicting Decisions Before Awareness

Silver Medal

This project investigates how different types of cognitive priming influence human perception and decision‑making, particularly in the context of marketing strategies. Cognitive priming refe…

Cognitive Stimulation via Multi-Sensory Integration: Testing the Impact of Childhood Multimedia Tools on Engagement in Alzheimer's and Dementia Patients

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Alzheimer's disease and dementia present a global health crisis characterized by progressive cognitive decline that traditional pharmacology struggles to reverse. This study, "Cognitive Stim…