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CYSF · 2026

Does Feedback Improve Focus for Individuals with ADHD?

A research about ADHD and how giving positive or negative feedback improves their focus. If it Increases or decreases?

CYSF · 2026

Does Freezing Hockey Pucks Impact Performance?

Determining if freezing hockey pucks impacts their performance. I will test how far frozen vs. room temperature hockey pucks will be able to travel, as well as how easily they handle.

Does Fusing Text-Grooming, Deepfake/Voice-Spoof Detection, and Content-Provenance Signals Reduce Missed Impersonations Compared with Any Single Detector Alone?

Software Design

Online child grooming is a serious and growing issue that occurs across many digital platforms, making it difficult to detect when only one type of evidence is used. This experiment focuses…

CYSF · 2026

Does lighting Effect your Mood?

Lighting significantly influences emotions and behavior by stimulating different brain areas, with warm tones like red often exciting the mind and cool tones like blue showing calm, it can a…

CYSF · 2026

Does playing video games make your reaction time faster. If so, why?

We will be doing experiments on adults and kids for reaction time before and after they play the video games. We will record the our answers and do some research why playing video games make…

CYSF · 2026

Does screen size and distance affect the level of visual fatigue and eye blink rate?

In our digital world, we spend hours looking at devices, but we don't often think about how they affect our eyes. My project investigates whether screen size and viewing distance have an aff…

CYSF · 2026

Does storage temperature affect hand sanitizer’s effectiveness?

We will incubate petri dishes to measure the amount of bacterial colonies before and after using hand sanitizer under different temperature conditions.

CYSF · 2026

Does study music really affect the ability to absorb information?

I will test how long it takes for somebody to read a fictional story with no music, and classical music. They will then answer questions based on the story with no music and classical music.

CYSF · 2026

Does Your Baby Really Look Like You?

Testing if people can guess what baby belongs to a mother and father based on appearance with accuracy.

Do Magnetic Forces in Matter Act Solely on the Boundary Surfaces? Evaluating the Formulations of Minkowski, Helmholtz and Lorentz

Physics and Astronomy

Electromagnetic forces inside matter are fundamental in condensed matter physics but there are multiple theories that describe them and it is yet to be determined which theory is correct. Th…

CYSF · 2026

Do plants grow differently around music?

We will test if music can make a plant grow faster or if it does not.

CWSF · 2026

Do post wildfire conditions impact plant growth?

Environment & Climate Change

My community of Leaf Rapids was severely impacted by wildfires last year. I see the effects of our burned forests every day. This project studied how ash from fires affects plant growth. I g…

CWSF · 2026

Dose-Dependent Teratogenic Effects of Retinoic Acid on Cardiac Morphogenesis: A Folic Acid Rescue

Disease & Illness

Congenital heart defects (CHDs), which affect nearly 1% of live births worldwide, arise from disruptions in tightly regulated signaling pathways governing early cardiac morphogenesis. This p…

DOTBot: Diffusion-Aligned Chain-of-Thought Bipedal Humanoid Robot for Interpretable Real-Time Autonomous Navigation, Hazard Mitigation, and Recovery in High-Risk Built Environments

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Autonomous robotic systems and the vision-language models powering them share a critical failure: both produce actions through opaque latent embeddings with no causal justification, thereby…

CYSF · 2026

do winter tiers work best for cars in snowy and icy conditions

do winter tiers actually make a difference and if so why don't more people use them

DPPH: Antioxidant Properties of Tea

Biochemistry

My project is DPPH: Antioxidant Properties of Tea, in which I tested to see if earl grey, jasmine, or chamomile tea had vastly different amounts of antioxidants, and if brewing time affects…

Drawing the Color Line: A Geospatial Analysis of Redlining, Government Assistance Programs, and Their Future

Behavioral and Social Sciences

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims to improve Quality of Life (QoL) for food-insecure Americans, but it faces challenges from legislation that seeks to cut SNAP benefi…

Drawn by Scent: Effects of ß-Cyclodextrin and Cellulose Fiber Paper-Encapsulated Microbial Volatiles on Insect Olfactory-Mediated Attraction

Animal Sciences

In nature, microbial volatiles serve as behavioral cues for insects. Pesticides aim to replicate the behavior-triggering nature of these volatiles; however, with approximately 6 billion poun…

Dream Mornings - Raspberry Pi, Blue Fruit, and Sensor Based Sleep Cycle Adaptive Alarm Clock

Embedded Systems

My device "Dream Mornings" measures various biometrics to identify sleep stages to wake its user up at an ideal point in their sleep cycle. Traditional alarm clocks ring at a specified time…

CYSF · 2026

Dreams

In our project, we are exploring dreams and different theories about dreaming. In our experiment specifically, we are testing the dream theory: How do dreams help us process memories more ef…

DreaMS-PFAS: A Novel Transformer-Based Approach for Early Detection of PFAS Contamination in Drinking Water and Environmental Samples

Environmental Engineering

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are synthetic chemicals with strong carbon-fluorine bonds that resist breakdown in the environment and are associated with serious health effects,…

CWSF · 2026

Driver Safety Monitoring System

Digital Technology

Before any long journey, our ancestors prepared with prayer and ceremony. Smudging with sage cleanses the eyes, ears, and mouth. It clears the mind and offers protection. This was survival.…

Drivers and Prediction of Compound Flooding Using a Physics-Informed Risk Index

Earth and Environmental Sciences

In the past 20 years, flooding has been the most common natural disaster worldwide, accounting for 43% of all recorded events, and causing tremendous loss of life and property. The North Car…

DroneSuite: Affordance-Based Hiearchical Active Inference for Autonomous Drones

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Autonomous drone navigation in GNSS-denied environments is challenging because conventional systems rely on rigid spatial representations, require environment-specific training, or are too c…

CWSF · 2026

Drought on Stomatal Aperture

Agriculture, Fisheries & Food

The maintenance of regular physiological function in plants depends on this careful balance between carbon uptake and water retention, which is regulated through changes in stomatal aperture…

Drug Discovery of Novel Oxindole Derivatives as Multitarget Modulators in Alzheimer's Disease

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Alzheimer's disease (AD), a multifactorial neurodegenerative disorder, is associated with amyloid-beta aggregation, tau hyperphosphorylation, neuroinflammation, apoptosis, and endoplasmic re…

Drug Repositioning for Novel Genome Engineering: Technology With High Therapeutic Efficacy and Low Side Effects

Biochemistry

Drug repositioning—the repurposing of existing drugs for new applications—provides high safety but is still limited in gene therapy. As gene therapy research grows globally, safe genome engi…

Dual-Functional Vaccine Adjuvant for Amplifying Immunity

Chemistry

With the advancement of vaccine technology, the need for safe and effective adjuvants has become increasingly important. While QS-21 is a clinically established adjuvant, it alone cannot ful…

Dual-Function Biochar-Alginate Beads for Heavy Metal Removal and as a Slow Release Fertilizer

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Access to safe drinking water remains a pressing global challenge, with millions exposed to heavy-metal contamination each year. At the same time, fertilizer runoff degrades water quality th…

Dust Busters: The Effects of Dust Scattering on Observations of X-Ray Binaries

Physics and Astronomy

Black hole X-ray binaries contain a black hole that accretes gas from a companion star, producing bright X-rays. By fitting the X-ray spectra with astrophysical models, we can estimate key p…