CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Silver Medal
Every 40 seconds someone has a stroke and up to 30% are caused by a heart condition called atrial fibrillation that produces zero warning signs until it's too late. We built a portable heart…
CYSF · 2026
My project is to develop an app to have continuous monitoring of potential skin cancer. The app will allow the user to take pictures of the suspected area overtime from which an AI model wil…
Biomedical Engineering
Gliomas remain the deadliest form of brain cancer, with patients surviving one year post-diagnosis on average, 5-year survival rates as low as 5%, and no major treatment advances in the past…
Environmental Engineering
Emergencies like wildfires and industrial accidents threaten public health. Accurate predictions of pollutant dispersion are vital for timely protective actions, but atmospheric models often…
CYSF · 2026
This project investigates how the shape of an air cannon’s exit opening affects the speed of air it produces.
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology
Silver Medal
AISentry is a waterproof, customizable, and user-friendly sentry capable of detecting, locking onto, and engaging with any humans or other objects, (𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑠) in a given area. It works by aut…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As fossil fuels have been sent back to the head of the line for depletion, there is a need to continue to find alternative fuels. Algae has become a nuisance. In reaction to increased freque…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek increasingly influence how people access and interpret political information, raising concerns that they may subtly sh…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Bronze Medal
Our project focuses on using statistical measures to make comparisons between the different factors that can affect Alzheimer’s disease cognitive trajectories. Firstly, we conducted a meta-a…
Physics and Astronomy
This project presents an in-line lens-free digital holographic imaging system capable of single-frame 3D reconstruction. I used a 532 nm monochromatic source to illuminate the sample, and th…
Biomedical Engineering
This project centers around the ultimate goal of making cancer research more affordable and accessible to labs and students around the world. Cancer cells that grow in low-oxygen environment…
Biochemistry
Water pollution by phenolic compounds and heavy metals poses a significant threat to aquatic ecosystems, creating a need for rapid, low-cost methods to assess environmental toxicity. Tyrosin…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Approximately 2.1 million people in the U.S. live with limb loss, with about 36% experiencing depression. Conventional non-invasive prosthetic control relies on electromyography (EMG), which…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Invisible to the naked eye but potentially harmful to our health, airborne bacteria are a hidden threat that demand an effective mitigation strategy. This study investigated the effect of sa…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Due to the need for unsafe or costly data collection to train a policy in the real world, sim-to-real transfer is the most common approach: learning a policy in simulation and deploying it i…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Silver Medal
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions, characterized by accumulation of amyloid beta oligomers causing neuronal dysfunction. The ubiquitin-proteasome system…
Physics and Astronomy
Gravitational waves (GWs) are ripples in spacetime produced by massive astronomical events such as compact binary coalescences (CBCs) involving black holes and neutron stars. Although matche…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Peatland fires are among the most detrimental types of fires toward global warming, and are capable of releasing 10 times more carbon per hectare into the atmosphere than typical forest fire…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Protamine 1 (PRM1) and protamine 2 (PRM2) are essential for packaging sperm DNA and maintaining genome stability during spermatogenesis. Changes in their expression levels are associated wit…
Environmental Engineering
This study presents the design, implementation, and validation of a low-cost autonomous water quality monitoring and forecasting system integrating embedded IoT hardware with an adaptive mac…
CYSF · 2026
we built a train that floats on magnets
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Agricultural pesticide use remains substantial, increasing chemical exposure, environmental burden, and production costs. U.S. farms spent $21.7 billion on agricultural chemicals in 2024. Be…
Biomedical Engineering
The current nurse to patient ratio in medical-surgical units spans from 1:4 to 1:6, however in long-term care units, this number can range anywhere from 1:15 to 1:30. Additionally, instances…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Enzymes are widely used across healthcare, textiles, and environmental technologies, requiring optimization through enzyme engineering. Traditional approaches rely on wet-lab trial-and-error…
Translational Medical Science
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), are typically diagnosed after 50-80% neuronal loss, reflecting a critical failure of early…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures, and affects nearly 50 million people, causing ~140,000 deaths worldwide annually. Many of these deaths could be preve…
Translational Medical Science
Visual impairment (VI) affects 2.2 billion people worldwide, and 1 billion cases are preventable with early diagnosis. Retinal diseases are preventable causes of VI. Clinical Decision Suppor…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Background: Rupture of cerebral aneurysm, an abnormal bulging of the arterial wall, can lead to brain hemorrhage and stroke. Endovascular surgical treatment is highly invasive and poses sign…
Biomedical Engineering
Respiratory exacerbations are often detected only after symptoms become severe, limiting opportunities for early intervention. Current monitoring systems rely on clinic-based devices or sing…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Despite advances in immunotherapy, up to 60% of melanoma patients do not respond to treatment. Emerging evidence suggests that physical exercise enhances anti-tumor immunity; however, the mo…