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CYSF · 2025

Lithium Engine

Silver Medal

Using Lithium as an alternate energy source mixed with water to power a small model car engine, showing that it can be used as an alternate power source.

Live-Cell Kinetic Assays Reveal That the TGF-b Inhibitor Vactosertib Suppresses T Cell Exhaustion

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Multiple myeloma (MM) is an incurable cancer of malignant plasma cells with a 5-year survival of 54%. Immunotherapy has recently emerged as a highly promising modality to treat MM. CD8+ T-ce…

Livestock Emissions and Coconut Waste: Analyzing the Inhibitory Potential of Coconut Waste Products in Cattle Manure Methane Emissions

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Climate change comes in many forms, sometimes from unexpected sources. Manure management facilities are some of the most overlooked, yet consequential facilitators of climate change, contrib…

CYSF · 2025

Living With Celiac: A Survey Exploring why Teenagers Struggle with the Gluten Free Diet and Celiac Disease

Silver Medal

For this research study, I will send out a Google form asking for important information like what the diagnosis was based on or their quality of life. It entails questions about their treatm…

LNP-VACCO: Autoencoder-Driven Optimization of Cystic Fibrosis Drug Delivery

Cystic Fibrosis (CF), characterized by its profound impact on respiratory and digestive functions, arises due to genetic mutations in the CFTR gene on chromosome 7. Despite progress in medic…

LocustTrack: Forecasting the Impact of Climate Change and IOD on the Distribution of Schistocerca gregaria (Desert Locust)

Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award

Schistocerca gregaria (desert locust) is the world's most destructive migratory pest and a serious threat to food security. Existing locust-control tools use real-time field data to monitor…

CYSF · 2025

Loop de Loop: Roller Coaster Journey from Elevation to Energy

Bronze Medal

The project focuses on finding the ratio between the height of start ramp and the diameter of the roller coaster loop to generate enough kinetic energy so that the converted potential energy…

Lost in the Stars: Chemical Tagging of the Magellanic Clouds and Accreted Populations

Physics and Astronomy Third Award

The internal kinematics of massive red supergiant branch (RGB) and oxygen-rich and carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in the Magellanic Clouds have been modeled to examine the t…

Low-Cost Eye-Gesture Control System for Mobile Devices Using Reinforcement Learning for Paralyzed Patients

Systems Software

Millions of people with paralysis struggle to use everyday technology due to limited motor function. In the U.S. alone, over 5.3 million individuals—about 1.7% of the population—live with pa…

Low-Cost, High-Performance Humanoid Upper Body for Automating Hazardous Tasks With Quasi-Direct Drive Actuators and Machine Learning

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award

Over the past 5 years, the United States recorded over 25,000 fatal work injuries (AFL-CIO, 2023). Industries like scientific laboratories, recycling and manufacturing facilities are especia…

Low-Cost Portable Braille Embosser for Education,

Electronics & Electromagnetics Second Award

Low-Cost Portable Device for At-Home Early Multi-Cancer Detection Using Bioimpedance and Multispectral Imaging Technologies

Biomedical Engineering

The objective of this project is to develop a low-cost, portable, multi-sensor device for accurate early detection of multiple cancers, designed for home use and resource-limited settings. T…

CYSF · 2025

Lower Limb Auxiliary Exoskeleton with Gait Management Feedback for Hypotonia

Gold Medal

Testing the efficacy of an exoskeleton designed to provide lower body support and balance walking gait for individuals with hypotonia.

Low Levels of Bioaccumulated Mercury in Lobster (Homarus Americanus) From the Gulf of Maine Are Elevated During the Early Fishing Season

Mercury (Hg) pollutes marine ecosystems and concentrates in benthic species. This ecological case study investigated the temporal accumulation of Hg in American lobster ( Homarus americanus)…

LuminaSand: Harnessing the Optoelectronic Potential of Silicon Dioxide With Focused Laser Beam

Materials Science Fourth Award

The increasing reliance on optoelectronic devices in communication, sensing, and display technologies has driven the search for alternative materials that are cost-effective, scalable, and h…

Lung Cancer Diagnosis Using Exhaled VOC Data and Machine Learning

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths. It is difficult to diagnose accurately, especially at an early stage. No tradition…

CYSF · 2025

lung segmentation

Bronze Medal

using a machine learning project to look at different dieases and analyze what part of the lung is damaged

CYSF · 2025

Lx vs Dx: What's The Best Rx For Endometriosis?

Systematic literature review and comparative analysis comparing dienogest and the levonorgestrel-releasing uterine system for the treatment of endometriosis

M³LungXAI-LF: An Explainable Multi-Modal Late Fusion System for Improved Clinical Early Lung Cancer Diagnosis With Automated Medical Reporting

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally, continues to face limited clinical adoption of machine learning model analysis for diagnosis due to the absence of an integr…

Machine Learning-Based Malaria Parasite Detection in Thin Blood Smear Images

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Malaria is one of the top three most prevalent diseases in Ghana, with 5.2 million cases of malaria in 2022 alone, according to Ghana Health Service data. Light microscopy is the current bes…

Machine Learning for Identification of Fast Progressors of Infarct Growth in Early Window Acute Ischemic Strokes Without Perfusion Imaging

Purpose: Fast progressors (FP) of anterior circulation acute ischemic strokes at 0 -6 hours from onset (early window) are associated with less favorable outcome. FP is determined by using co…

Machine Learning for Increasing the Response Rate of Breast Cancer Patients to Neoadjuvant Therapy

Translational Medical Science Fourth Award

Purpose: Patients with breast cancer (BC) who undergo neoadjuvant therapy (NAT) before surgery and achieve a pathologic complete response (pCR) after NAT have a low rate of recurrence. Howev…

Machine learning optimized in silico design of a de novo RAGE inhibitor: a small molecule approach to slowing the progression of inflammatory disease

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Inflammatory diseases affect billions of patients worldwide. Receptor for Advanced Glycation End products (RAGE) has been identified as a promising target for many inflammatory diseases, inc…

Machine learning optimized in silico design of a de novo RAGE inhibitor: a small molecule approach to slowing the progression of inflammatory disease

Inflammatory diseases affect billions of patients worldwide. Receptor for Advanced Glycation End products (RAGE) has been identified as a promising target for many inflammatory diseases, inc…

CYSF · 2025

Machine Learning vs. Thyroid Cancer: Predicting Recurrence

My science fair project aims to predict the recurrence of thyroid cancer in patients who are in remission by utilizing machine learning, specifically a Random Forest model. The project invol…

CYSF · 2025

Machines at play

Bronze Medal

Can you find simple machines on a playground and if you can on which playground equipment can you find them ? I did a research project so I looked up each part of my question .

Magnesium Magic: The Rescue of the Parkinson's Model of Drosophila melanogaster With MgCl2 Supplementation

Animal Sciences

Parkinson's disease (PD), the second most common and fastest-growing neurodegenerative disorder affecting over 10 million people worldwide, is characterized by progressive neurodegeneration…

Magnesmooth: Magnetizing the Ingenuity of Transportation

Engineering (inferred)

In the modern day, transportation is everything. It's how we get to our daily destinations on time and quickly. Shock absorbers are being used on all vehicles on the road today. However, som…

CYSF · 2025

Magnetic Levitating Cars Using Electric Induction to Power Cities

Gold Medal

Cars levitating using magnetic repulsion that use magnetic motion to induce electricity to potentially power a city.

Magnetic Nanowire-Guided Delivery of BMCs to Prevent Coral Bleaching

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Coral reefs stand as the ocean's last line of defense, a living barrier vital to the marine ecosystem, supporting approximately 25% of its biodiversity, and providing additional benefits to…