CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Bronze Medal
My project is about making functional prosthetic hands more accessible and affordable than a smartphone. To achieve this, I use 3D printing to create lightweight, customizable parts that tra…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) accounts for 13% of acute toxicity cases in the U.S. and remains a primary barrier to pharmaceutical development. While most machine learning models predict…
CWSF · 2026
Energy
My project investigates optimal conditions for passive solar heating. I used a temperature data logging system to quantify the effect of surface colour, surface angle, and thermal mass. Cond…
Materials Science
Microbial contamination in cosmetic products such as lipsticks, can lead to health issues and skin irritations due to constant contact with the mouth and exposure to bacteria and fungi. Comm…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a five-year survival rate of 12%, driven in part by unresolved mechanisms of therapeutic resistance. While single-cell RNA sequencing has advanced…
Animal Sciences
E-cigarettes are a growing public-health concern, as new studies indicate that heavy metals, including lead, can be found in vape liquid. Despite this desperate need for research, the long-t…
Chemistry
Arsenic contamination in groundwater affects over 200 million people globally. Inorganic arsenic, mainly arsenite (As(III)) and arsenate (As(V)), is classified as a Group 1 human carcinogen,…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Dementia effects almost One-Million Canadians, and has no cure, with current treatments having severe side-effects. This experiment aimed to explore the effectiveness of high-frequency pulse…
Biomedical Engineering
Fully instrumented gait analysis provides clinicians with critical metrics for surgical planning and rehabilitation. It is the gold standard, combining infrared motion capture and force plat…
Animal Sciences
Planaria (Dugesia spp.) are a well-established model for studying neural regeneration due to their ability to fully reform heads and central nervous systems after decapitation. This study in…
CWSF · 2026
Energy
Bronze Medal
This project focused on many aspects of harvesting renewable energy from highways, including cars, vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT), cost, traffic, and solar panels. Four vehicle types (pi…
Embedded Systems
On average, every 3 seconds a car hits a pedestrian, and every minute one is killed. Hindsight is a low-cost wearable sensor that alerts pedestrian users of vehicles approaching from behind…
Embedded Systems
Visually impaired students encounter many problems in their educational processes. The inadequacy of Braille embossed and audio information resources, the scarcity of these resources in area…
Environmental Engineering
Hold
CYSF · 2026
This project examines how organic and inorganic soil amendments affect soil water retention to identify low-cost methods to improve soil moisture and thus plant resilience during increasing…
Animal Sciences
This project investigated whether dogs demonstrated paw preference during different activities, including standing, walking, and interacting with a treat. Previous research states that later…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
I am Khloe Sandy ,a proud Dakota Indigenous girl. I wanted to try making an eyeliner at home that's safe and natural since many eyeliners in stores contain chemicals that are not good for th…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
The real question is, can you make a water filter out of materials you can get only in your home? We wanted to create a water filter system that could be made household materials that you co…
CYSF · 2026
were going to build a couple water filters with different materials to see which materials clean dirty water better.
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity
Bronze Medal
Many people blanket their horses in cold weather, yet few studies have quantified the thermal benefits. This study tested whether adding a detachable hood increased neck surface temperatures…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
What makes robots seem robotic? Traditional robots are stiff, making them precise and stable, but not agile; they have difficulty negotiating the variability of natural environments. In cont…
Software Design
This project is an integrated approach to approximating an unknown scalar field using Gaussian Process (GP) Regression with a ground robot. The challenge stems from the safety constraints of…
CYSF · 2026
My project is about how different amounts of baking soda affect the crystallization of the vinegar and baking soda solution.
CYSF · 2026
Project is to describe how temperature of flow determine the shape of volacano and can help us to understand how far lava will flow.
CYSF · 2026
A dynamo that's hand cranked, demonstrating how the dynamo works
CYSF · 2026
Play a range of different types of sounds (eg nails on blackboard, footsteps, door closing, background conversation) to a subject. Survey the subject, asking them to describe the sound, qual…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Morality is innately human: it requires weighing competing values, using judgment, and accepting responsibility. However, moral decisions are increasingly shaped by AI systems advising in cr…
CYSF · 2026
This is food science, not consumer goods. Our project is about where and how to store your foods so they stay less mouldy and more edible.
CYSF · 2026
My experiment is about how magnets repel and attach and how they do.
CYSF · 2026
This study investigated whether a spinach smoothie improves post-exercise blood pressure recovery and attention in teenagers, and whether antibacterial mouthwash blocks these benefits by dis…