CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology
Bronze Medal
Les gants à percussion offrent une alternative novatrice à la batterie traditionnelle, en permettant de jouer de la musique du bout des doigts. Grâce au phénomène peu connu qu’est la piézoél…
CYSF · 2026
Notre recherche portera sur le lien entre l'utilisation de la technologie et le fait de développer une dépendance aux appareils technologiques. La recherche nous amènera aussi à découvrir le…
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division)
Organic dyes released into natural sources of water pollute the environment, threatening the ecosystems and human health. Spent coffee grounds and alginate are eco-friendly materials, which…
CWSF · 2026
Energy
Bronze Medal
Operating conditions inside nuclear reactors promote material degradation, inhibiting the maturity of nuclear capabilities. In pressurized water reactors (PWRs), heat exchanger materials are…
CYSF · 2026
Gold Medal
This study will focus on determining the viability of Glenn-Research Copper (GRCop) 84 and GRCop 42 alloys in heat exchanging tubing for pressurized water reactors for increased thermal cond…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) affects 33.7% of American adults, yet early detection remains challenging because diagnostic methods like FibroScan® are expe…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD), are leading causes of global disability. The development of effective therapeutics is challenged by the comple…
Translational Medical Science
In rural areas of the world, such as villages in India & Africa, inhabitants lack access to medical infrastructure. Due to this, early disease diagnosis is not possible, as early symptoms fo…
Physics and Astronomy
Vertical vibration can levitate a liquid layer above an air cushion. As the driving acceleration increases, the system transitions through three regimes: Rayleigh-Taylor instability at the l…
CYSF · 2026
This project investigates the immune mechanisms involved in lichen planus, an autoimmune disease. It analyzes how inflammatory proteins activate the JAK-STAT pathway, to make a targeted appr…
Chemistry
This project investigates Liesegang-type self-organization phenomena for the development of functional biomaterials for bone regeneration and controlled drug delivery. The experimental proce…
CYSF · 2026
Gold Medal
An Arduino-based wearable which was developed, tested, and validated based on the problem "How can a cost-effective and accessible device be created to effectively detect and provide alerts…
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
The Life Saver Helmet is a low-cost electronic system that uses an impact sensor to detect crashes. It also has an Arduino, which sends and receives signals.
CYSF · 2026
we will make an aeroplane that will lift of and glide to demonstrate the science of lift and aerodynamics
CYSF · 2026
Silver Medal
How can we convert kinetic energy from activities like hiking and running into a clean renewable source of energy to power LED lights and/or flashlights to help people who are hiking or runn…
CYSF · 2026
This project is about generating static in a jar
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace
Notre projet vise a étudier l'effet du changement des variables d'une aile d'avion, (comme sa forme ou l'épaisseur de son bord d'attaque), sur la portance que celle-ci produit. Nous soufflon…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Senior Division)
Hormone-driven cancers, such as prostate cancer, rely on hormone receptor signaling for growth and survival. While hormone deprivation therapies are initially effective, prolonged treatment…
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by mitochondrial dysfunction, impaired protein clearance, and accumulation of pathological aggregates. Anal…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
This project aims to link the cellular heat stress response of Montipora capitata to its biological immortality. The amortality of this species is attributed to alternative methods of telome…
Microbiology
Third Award
Burkitt's Lymphoma is an aggressive B-cell malignancy associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. Over 95% of the world's population is persistently infected by EBV. While current tr…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) is a life-saving cardiopulmonary support system for patients with severe cardiac and/or respiratory failure. Its use has increased substantially si…
Environmental Engineering (Track 2) (Junior Division)
This experiment tested low-cost capacitive soil sensors against a 24-hour timer cycle for watering pea plants over 2 weeks. Each system used drip irrigation with three pots (two plants per p…
Zoology (Junior Division)
My project was about Guinea pigs and how they react to different sounds. I played 3 different types of sounds and recorded to see how they would react. I found out the Guinea pigs are more s…
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease (NDD) that affects ~11% of adults over the age of 65. AD, like many other NDDs, is characterized by a buildup of misfolded…
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…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Current speech-to-sign language translation systems cannot express the emotions behind the words, making it difficult for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals to fully grasp the speaker's tr…
Mathematical Sciences (Junior Division)
We use AI in daily life, sometimes involuntarily (such as Google Search Overview). However, some AI models might be more reliable or structured than others. In this project, we tested six di…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Benchmarks often fail to capture true large language model (LLM) trustworthiness, as models behave differently under evaluation than in real-world deployment. This research introduces a syst…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology
Bronze Medal
This study benchmarks ten large language models on their ability to extract and classify software user pain points from thousands of real-world feedback records across four platforms: G2, Ca…