Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Science of Autonomy: Optimal path planning optimizes maritime navigation by analyzing environmental factors such as ocean currents to determine time-optimal routes in the ocean. I hypothesiz…
Science of Autonomy: Optimal path planning optimizes maritime navigation by analyzing environmental factors such as ocean currents to determine time -optimal routes in the ocean. I hypothesi…
CYSF · 2025
Bronze Medal
I will test if the scientific method is worth it by getting 2 groups people to test if materials float, 1 group will use the scientific method the other won't, and I will compare their resul…
Scrapie is a neurological disease that is fatal to sheep. Since I raise and show sheep in 4-H, I wanted to make sure that my flock was resistant to scrapie and that when I am seeking potenti…
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
Electronic textiles (e-textiles) have shown promise across many fields, one of the most prevalent being healthcare, as they can aid in the rehabilitation of musculoskeletal impairments, some…
Physics and Astronomy (inferred)
Dark matter has been a key area of research in physics for over ninety years. The dark photon is a proposed model of dark matter that extends the Standard Model to add a new force mediator t…
CYSF · 2025
An autonomous underwater rover that can explore underwater without human input. The goal is to minimize size and cost while being more effective. It will be tested inside a filled fish tank…
CYSF · 2025
Bronze Medal
Discussing the role of the brain and circadian rhythm in our sleep, along with tracking sleep and comparing results.
CYSF · 2025
by comparing 2 types of seeds we learn how space conditions like heat cold and humidity effect the growth of tomato seeds
CYSF · 2025
Bronze Medal
I will use different samples of woods and place them in water. I will weigh them before place them in the oven for a few hours. After take them out of the oven, I will reweigh the woods to s…
Microbiology
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), often referred to as a “silent pandemic” in scientific discussions, has become one of the most pressing threats to global health. AMR plays a key role in micr…
Environmental Engineering
The high volumetric capacity (53 g H2/L), low toxicity, and ambient stability of formic acid (FA) make it a promising hydrogen carrier, yet efficiently extracting hydrogen in a clean and sca…
As promising candidates for addressing pathogenic resistance, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are capable of lysing bacterial strains through membrane disruption, but many unintentionally pene…
CYSF · 2025
Silver Medal
A project to design a reusable self cooling water bottle.
Environmental Engineering
The NOAA defines microplastics as "plastic pieces less than five millimeters long." Microplastics have been found from the Mariana Trench to Mount Everest, and from the human brain to the pl…
Systems Software
In the recent decade, autonomous systems like self-driving cars, drones, and robots have become widely used. They rely heavily on 3D perception of the surrounding environment and mapping tec…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Honorable_mention Award
Systems Software
As cyber-attacks become increasingly common (72% increase from 2021), and as losses from cybercrime grow each year ($10.5 trillion by 2025), it is more important than ever for organizations…
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Across the world, millions of newborns suffer from severe neonatal jaundice, a condition that can cause neurological damage and death. Approaches such as laboratory blood tests and transcuta…
CYSF · 2025
we will put together house that can uphold and earthquick
Physics and Astronomy
This study proposes a methodology to characterize asteroid 1777 Gehrels through its light curve and to derive an exploration orbit using reinforcement learning. A total of 120 images were co…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The Rio Grande Gorge bridge has an average of six suicides/year, as compared to 13.6 suicides/year (Atkins-Witmer, Woods, 2013) for the Golden Gate bridge. Per capita, this is a comparable s…
CYSF · 2025
Silver Medal
so this project is all about diffraction, refraction and angle of incidence basically it helps to know that if their is any solute in the liquid without tasting it.
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Each time a rocket is launched into the Earth's atmosphere it uses several thousands of gallons of chemical fuel per second. These chemical fuels, when being used in such large quantities, c…
CYSF · 2025
Gold Medal
We are testing which animal's eye glows the most by blocking the light with red parchment paper.
Materials Science
Second Award
With more than 360 million tons of plastic produced each year, plastic pollution has become a critical issue as plastics accumulate in our environment and inside us; microplastics are even k…
CYSF · 2025
Silver Medal
Developing a rapid testing kit for sickle cell disease to help detect genetically caused issues
Microbiology
Second Award
Quorum Sensing (QS) is a bacterial communication pathway that mediates population-based activity activities such as virulence, motility, conjugation, and biofilm formation. Specifically, QS-…
Materials Science
This study aimed to develop a scalable, cost-effective method for producing high-quality silver nanoparticle (AgNP)-containing hydrogels. AgNPs (1–100 nm) are promising in biomedical applica…
Chemistry
Third Award
More than half the world's population, around 4.4 billion people, lack access to clean and safe drinking water. This is partially due to the contamination of synthetic organic dyes, which ar…