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Madigan Squeeze

Animal Sciences

Neonatal Maladjustment Syndrome (NMS), also known as dummy calf syndrome, affects newborn calves by limiting their alertness, ability to stand, nurse, and bond with their mother. The researc…

Magnesium Forms and L. Acidophilus Growth in Simulated Gi Conditions

Microbiology (inferred)

Despite numerous studies on the importance of magnesium intake, little is known about the variations between different forms of magnesium and their interactions with gut bacteria. Magnesium…

MAGNET: A Mutation-Aware SE(3)  - Equivariant Graph Framework for 3D Binding in KRAS Variants

Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)

Annually, 20 million people are diagnosed with cancer, contributing to over 9.7 million deaths. Nearly 25% of these cases are linked to mutations in the KRAS gene, which normally functions a…

Magnetic Field Geometry and Its Influence on Ferrofluid Droplet Motion

Magnetic control of liquid droplets offers a way to move and mix fluids without pumps or tubes, which is useful for micro-scale chemical and biological systems. This study examined how diffe…

Magnetic Shields for Mars: A Model of Planetary Protection Against Solar Wind

Physics and Astronomy

This project evaluated the ability of laboratory-scale permanent magnets and a battery-powered electromagnet to generate magnetic pressure and compared their capacity to approach the pressur…

Magnetorheological Elastomers (MREs) for Adaptive Friction Control in Mobility Aids: Fabrication, Tribological Testing, and Optimization

Materials Science Third Award

Slips, Trips, and Falls (STFs) are major sources of accidents among various populations. About 38 mill falls happen each year in the US alone, with more than 50,000 associated with mobility…

CWSF · 2026

Magnetorheological Fluid–Driven Rolling Soft Robot for Tissue-Sparing Minimally Invasive Therapy

Disease & Illness Silver Medal

Worldwide, medical problems in tubular organs, including emboli in blood vessels and foreign objects in the digestive tract, remain major threats to human health, while current surgical trea…

Maillard Maker

Chemistry (inferred)

Food development is an important and persistent part of the modern world, and finding optimal methods of creating food products is necessary as the world's population increases. The Maillard…

Make The Wind Work For You

Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)

Make the wind work for you by using wind to power a windmill.

CYSF · 2026

Making friends with Fungi: How does mycorrhizal symbiosis affect plant growth?

Silver Medal

Plants were grown in pots under different soil conditions (with or without a mycorrhizal inoculant) under greenhouse conditions to assess plant growth.

CYSF · 2026

Making it clear

Bronze Medal

I made water filters and I collected bow river, tested it no nitrates or nitrites I made simulated water by adding soil, and I did my test.

Making Sustainable Fabrics From Seaweed

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Can you imagine clothing made from seaweed? The textile/fashion industry discards in excess of 90 tons of textile waste annually. The industry is trying to become more sustainable by develop…

MALAT1 Silencing Reduces EDB-Fibronectin Expression and Invasive Morphology in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Translational Medical Science Third Award

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is one of the deadliest breast cancer subtypes because it lacks the receptors targeted by most therapies, leaving patients with few treatment options. Th…

MANA: Molecular Analysis of Non-Adiabatic Activity

Software Design

Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is a non-invasive treatment for esophageal, skin, and non-small-cell lung cancers that relies on light-activated drugs called photosensitizers to generate cytotoxi…

CYSF · 2026

mangled microplastics

Bronze Medal

I am filtering microplastics and nanoplastic's in a variety of different filtera

CYSF · 2026

Manipulating Hydrogel Release

I will study how we can manipulate hydrogel technology to predict the rate at which they release their contained substance

MannKaaval: A Framework for Detection and Monitoring of Sand Mining Using Interpretable Machine Learning and Causal Inference

Earth and Environmental Sciences

According to UNEP, Sand is the most mined solid natural resource in the world, with up to 50 billion tons used annually. This high demand results in unmonitored illegal mining. It is a $350…

M.A.N.T.I.S -- Muon Analysis for Non-Invasive Tomography and Image Simulation: Simulating Atmospheric Muon Flux for Remote, Non-Invasive Subsurface Imaging

Software Design First Award

MANTIS is the first entirely computerized muon-based subsurface imaging system. Its goal is to deliver a fully non-invasive and remote method for underground imaging that eliminates the need…

Manufacturing With Moon Dust

Materials Science

Moon colonization would benefit from manufacturing using local materials such as moon dust, a basaltic volcanic ash (BVA). We investigate the feasibility of additive 3D printing (FDM) with a…

Manuka Honey and Temperature: An Experimental Study of Antimicrobial Activity

Microbiology

Manuka honey is known for its antimicrobial properties, but it is unclear how heating affects its ability to inhibit bacterial growth. This experiment tested whether increasing the temperatu…

Mapping Axonal Connectivity Patterns Between The Spinal Cord and Nucleus Tractus Solitarius Using AAV2 Viral Tracing

Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)

The nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) and the spinal cord are important sensory hubs that project interoceptive and somatosensory information to similar brain regions, respectively; however,…

Mapping Invasive Pampas Grass Through Drone-Based Photography and Machine Learning

Earth & Environmental Sciences(Senior Division) Honorable_mention Award

This project aims to use drone-based aerial imaging to implement an Artificial Intelligence model to detect and map pampas grass on a large scale. To experiment, I went to the field and coll…

CYSF · 2026

Mapping Memory

Gold Medal

I will make a program in which the participants play 4 memory games. While they are playing these games, their brainwaves are being recorded using an EEG headset. They are analyzed and compl…

Mapping of People With Disabilities in the Paraisopolis favela (PWDs): Cartographic Record for Care in the Unified Health System (PROMAP-SUS)

Behavioral and Social Sciences

This study examined the lack of access to Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS) for People with Disabilities (PWDs) in Sao Paulo’s Paraisopolis favela. It aimed to map and characterize PWD re…

Market Value Formation of Professional Soccer Players: An Analysis Based on Long-Term Ability and Short-Term Performance

Mathematics

This project investigates how player market value in professional soccer is shaped by long-term ability and short-term seasonal performance. Transfer markets often show inconsistencies betwe…

MARLIN: An ROV-based AI System for Detection and Density Mapping of Invasive Sargassum horneri in Monterey Bay

Environmental Engineering (Senior Division) Honorable_mention Award

Rapidly emerging blooms of Sargassum horneri threaten kelp forest ecosystems and shoreline biodiversity in Monterey Bay, California. This study introduces MARLIN, an AI-robotics pipeline ope…

MARS-KSL: A Multi-Angle Robustness Framework for Kenyan Sign Language Recognition Using View-Invariant Landmark Normalization and Hybrid LSTM- Transformer Deep Learning

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award

Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) remains absent from AI research despite serving 600,000 Deaf Kenyans. Existing recognition systems, including those for ASL and BSL, fail under real-world conditio…

CYSF · 2026

Mars versus Earth

Bronze Medal

This science fair project will answer the questions "Does homemade Martian soil affect the fact that plants don't grow on Mars, or is it the atmosphere?"

MaternalGuard AI: Protecting Every Precious Heartbeat

Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)

Pregnancy complications drive approximately 13.4 million preterm births globally each year and contribute to roughly 900,000 preventable neonatal deaths from conditions such as preeclampsia,…

Mathematical Modeling of Enteric Glia-Derived Immune-Metabolic Crosstalk Reveals Synergistic Strategies to Overcome PRDM9- Mediated Ferroptosis Resistance in Glioblastoma

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive type of primary brain tumor, with limited response to standard temozolomide (TMZ) therapy due to resistance. Thus, the search for alternative treatm…