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Biomedical and Health Sciences
Nicotine addiction is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports approximately 23.6 million Americans have a nicotine use disorder.…
Translational Medical Science
Diabetes Mellitus is a growing global epidemic, affecting over 500 million people worldwide. The condition is characterized by insulin resistance- failure of body’s cells to respond effectiv…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Autoimmune diseases affect millions worldwide, yet many are difficult to diagnose due to biological complexity and variability across patients. I developed a computational pipeline to addres…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
The formation of planetary orbits and star systems remains one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy. Exocomets, with their unique geological and molecular compositions, may hold the key to…
Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is an extremely rare neurological small vessel disease, affecting about 2-5 people every…
Mathematics
Due to the grave danger that epidemics hold to our health and way of life, there has always been a dire need for models that predict the onset and severity of an epidemic. This is emphasized…
Distracted driving represents an escalating public safety crisis, with its role in motor vehicle collisions and resulting fatalities steadily increasing. Despite advances in distracted drivi…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
Distracted driving represents an escalating public safety crisis, with its role in motor vehicle collisions and resulting fatalities steadily increasing. Despite advances in distracted drivi…
CYSF · 2025
Silver Medal
To investigate how constant digital notifications (e.g., texts, social media alerts) affect participants' attention span, concentration, and task performance.
Physics and Astronomy
Galactic formation is not fully understood, and supernovae are essential in current models; however, despite significant advances in understanding, there remains limited precision and effici…
In living organisms, DNA is a critical macromolecule; its stability and integrity are vital for the normal functioning of cellular processes, such as DNA replication repair. Sunlight is a si…
CYSF · 2025
Do boys and girls have the same lung capacity?
CYSF · 2025
I am trying to answer the above question with research and an physical experiment.
CYSF · 2025
Bronze Medal
I decided to look at baking with and withort baking soda
CYSF · 2025
This project is about putting to the test if sleep improves academic performance
CYSF · 2025
Does temperature affect the bounce of a basketball we took a basketball and we heated and made it cold. We after dropped it from 5ft 3 times
Plant Sciences
The agricultural industry is striving to increase the world's food supply systems to meet future needs, and hydroponics can be a crucial tool in this endeavor. This study aimed to enhance th…
CYSF · 2025
Gold Medal
This project explores how different sizes of button batteries impact the level of burning in a child’s esophagus if swallowed. It aims to understand the risks and raise awareness about batte…
CYSF · 2025
Bronze Medal
This science project aims to determine whether washing rice a different number of times affects the amount of bacteria, using a microscope and petri dishes. It also examines whether the bact…
CYSF · 2025
Bronze Medal
Grow plants from seed in greenhouses in different environment to see how plant growth changes.
CYSF · 2025
Gold Medal
Dogs and human saliva can be different so we thought we could do the project and we can see what is dirty
Animal Sciences
In the 21st century, microplastics have become an increasingly common anthropogenic environmental pollutant. While the effects of microplastic contamination on many large species have been e…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The current youth has been experiencing a decline in cognitive functioning, and many have attributed this to a Dopamine (DA) rewiring stemming from “easy” DA induction from online habits. Ho…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Dysregulated dopamine in the mesolimbic system is linked to disorders like schizophrenia, depression, and addiction. Low phasic dopamine release correlates with reduced drug reward sensitivi…
CYSF · 2025
Silver Medal
To test the maximum hearing frequency for professionals working in the high sound exposure professions like military, construction, manufacturing, and music industry as compared to normal so…
Plant Sciences
My science fair project is to see how pea plants would grow to different liquids on the pH scale. In this world there are many countries with the lack of clean water or just having the abili…
CYSF · 2025
Bronze Medal
We will test to see if calming curbs are more effective at slowing vehicles than just having a crosswalk sign/in road pedestrian sign in school zones.
Chemistry
Electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2RR) has emerged as a foremost strategy for commercial-scale production of carbon-based derivatives via proton-coupled electron transfers, yet overcoming the…
CYSF · 2025
Bronze Medal
Testing how long will it take for different batteries to lose all their energy at different temperature
CYSF · 2025
Bronze Medal
I will interview about 60 grade 6 students and see if they think their fear would be scarier if they were diagnosed with the phobia relative to that fear