Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Stroke and migraine with aura, which affect over 300 million people globally, present with similar visual symptoms requiring differentiation through costly neuroimaging that may not be avail…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
One in every 20 people with epilepsy has photosensitive reflex epilepsy —2.5 million individuals for whom a flashing screen (3-60 Hz) can trigger a seizure within seconds, forcing them to li…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Bronze Medal
Current diagnostic methods for neurodegenerative diseases often depend on expensive imaging or on symptoms that only appear in later stages. My project, NeuroSight, explores a more accessibl…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
The purpose of this project is to find out whether going to bed earlier increases REM sleep and improves focus, mood, memory, and alertness the next day.
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune neurological disorder affecting 2.9 million people worldwide. For MS, an incurable disease, the prevention of progression (from RRMS to PPMS)…
Translational Medical Science
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that impairs motor function, making early detection crucial for slowing disease progression and managing symptoms. However, current d…
CYSF · 2026
Gold Medal
Analysis of neural electrical activity recorded using microelectrode arrays to compare normal and seizure-like brain network behavior through computational and statistical methods.
Embedded Systems
Chemical waste disposal in shared laboratories remains a major safety challenge because it often depends on handwritten labels, incomplete records, and user judgment. These limitations make…
Mathematics
Purpose: A set of two new operators contribute to the development of a new theorem on jumpability that, together with a six-fold characterization of dimensional-expansions, are used to estab…
Chemistry
First Award
N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have emerged as excellent spectator ligands in homogeneous catalysis, especially in transfer hydrogenation reactions. Transfer hydrogenation, the reduction of…
Bisphenol A (BPA) and Bisphenol S (BPS) are chemicals used in hard plastics for food containers and are xenoestrogens, chemicals that mimic the hormone estrogen. BPA and BPS are thought to a…
Biomedical Engineering
This project designs anti-cancer peptides that inhibit PDEd, a chaperone regulating KRAS signaling. Using the PDEd crystal structure (PDB: 4JV6), RFdiffusion generated peptide backbones, Pro…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Gold Medal
Needle injections can be painful because they deform the skin, especially when larger needles are needed to deliver viscous fluids. In this project, a patented needle design that requires 57…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology
Silver Medal
Deafblindness is a combined disability of vision and hearing impairments that create significant challenges to communication and information access. Many deafblind individuals rely on interv…
Biomedical Engineering
Elopement/wandering affects nearly 49% of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and 71% of these cases result in fatal outcomes. Existing tracking systems rely on cellular subscripti…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
The study of nightmares in kids and why they have more nightmares than adults.
Software Design
Conventional navigation aids for the visually impaired often suffer from estimation errors during non-linear maneuvers and fail to detect hazards obscured by crowds or corners. This study pr…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Silver Medal
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder where gluten causes damage to the small intestine.¹ A gluten sensor could allow patients to check their food. Current sensors are best at detecting w…
Plant Biology (Junior Division)
Venus Flytraps (Dionaea muscipula) are carnivorous plants native to nitrogen-poor wetlands. Scientists believe the nitrogen deficiency was the driving factor for evolution of pretty capture.…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
The purpose of this experiment was to help people who are usually in noisy environments and these Noise-Aware Smart Headphones will automatically decrease the volume of the sound in the head…
CYSF · 2026
Silver Medal
Investigating contact lens lysozyme aggregation by tracking the kinetics and mechanisms of home-purified egg white lysozyme subvisible aggregation at varying NaCl concentrations measured via…
Animal Sciences
Bees pollinate the flowers of many fruit trees which produce a significant proportion of our food supply. It is therefore important to improve beekeeping practices to produce healthier bees…
Biomedical Engineering
Distal pulse assessment during closed fracture reduction in pre-hospital emergency care is typically performed intermittently and subjectively, leaving windows where vascular compromise may…
Earth & Environmental Sciences(Senior Division)
Plastic nurdles—small industrial plastic pellets used in manufacturing—are a major yet under-monitored source of global microplastic pollution. An estimated 445,970 metric tons of nurdles en…
Environmental Engineering
This project was designed to tackle the growing problem of the invasive Burmese Python in the Florida Everglades. Since these snakes are hard to find, standard hunting methods did not work w…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common sexually transmitted bacterial infection in the United States. It is frequently asymptomatic, yet can result in severe reproductive complications. Wh…
Biomedical Engineering
Background Heart failure affects 64 million people annually. Transplants are in chronic shortage, especially for pediatric patients. Total artificial heart (TAH) promises a solution; however…
Translational Medical Science
Microalgae are unicellural organisms that are found both in marine and freshwater ecosystems, ranging from tropical water habitats to subpolar areas. They have recently gained attention due…
Plant Sciences
Climate change is triggering soil salinization, which limits crop production, mainly in island communities such as American Samoa. Seed priming is a proven method to boost germination under…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines (inferred)
In the first 6 hours following a building collapse, the chance of finding a survivor is approximately 60%, but drops to less than 10% by the 48th. This research developed a soft biomimetic r…