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CYSF · 2025

The Resistance

Bronze Medal

In this project I will reserching how and if cancer cells develop resistance to chemotherapy drugs

CYSF · 2025

The Rise of Self-Learning Space AI !?

Bronze Medal

An in-depth look at modern machine learning techniques, it’s potential application with martian rover navigation and what this means for the future of space exploration and beyond

CYSF · 2025

The Rivalry of the Chemicals the Battle of the Oil Stains

Silver Medal

Testing which cleaning agents will remove an oil stain from a white shirt.

Thermal and Acoustic Characterization of Hybrid Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Structures

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award

With the increasing use of high-performance CPUs and GPUs, thermal management has become crucial. Conventional cooling methods, such as heat sinks and air coolers, often generate continuous…

CYSF · 2025

Thermal Effects On Battery Performance

This is a project made by two grade 8 students and we are targeting how extreme cold or hot environments affect a battery's performance and lifespan.

CYSF · 2025

Thermoelectric Flashlight: Body Heat Powered Flashlight

Silver Medal

The objective of the project is to study the practicability of powering a small LED flashlight with body heat. A thermoelectric generator, powered by body heat, drives a red LED.

Thermoelectric Generator's Effect on Photovoltaic System's Output

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

As fossil fuel depletion drives the shift to alternative energy sources, this project aims to enhance efficiency and sustainability by combining a thermoelectric generator (TEG) with a photo…

CYSF · 2025

The Robotic Arm of Endurance

My project is an experiment that explores the effects of increasing voltage on a servo motor's performance. I am testing different voltages on a homemade robot arm powered by four servo moto…

The Role of Bacterial Cellulose in Advancing Regenerative Medicine Through Enhanced Healing, Infection Management, and Tissue Engineering

Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award

Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a promising biomaterial for wound healing and regenerative medicine due to its biocompatibility, water retention, and high tensile strength. This study evaluates…

The Role of Fe-S Cluster Biosynthesis in the Regulation of Fe-S Proteins, Fe-Metabolism, and Downstream Stress Responses in vivo

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are cell-essential cofactors present in roughly 60 proteins, including DNA polymerases, subunits of oxidative phosphorylation complexes, and iron-sensing proteins…

The Role of Hormones in Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) is an inherited connective tissue disorder that primarily stems from defects in the extracellular matrix, namely collagen. Within those diagnosed, f…

The Role of QSER1 During Early Stages of Zebrafish Embryonic Neural Development

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Neurogenesis during early embryonic development is a highly regulated, transcriptional process that establishes the framework for the vertebrate central nervous system (CNS). The QSER1 gene…

The Role of the Small GTPase ARF6 in Mediating Oxidative Stress-Induced Senescence in the Retinal Pigment Epithelium

Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award

Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, is a progressive degeneration of the retina that causes significant central visual impairment, impacting nearly 20 million elderly adults in the Uni…

The Salt to My Pepper: Utilizing the Bioactive Descriptors of Piperoyl Piperidine on Drosophila Melanogaster as a Neoteric Treatment for Breast Cancer

Breast cancer occurs from contingency of malignant cells spreading through the bloodstream, affecting 2.3 million individuals globally, with HER2+ being an invasive subtype due to HER2 prote…

CYSF · 2025

The significance of cerebrospinal fluid protein biomarkers in predicting cognitive decline in transient ischemic attack patients

Gold Medal

This project aims to establish the significance of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in transient ischemic attack patients with regard to protein biomarkers and cognitive function by means of s…

CYSF · 2025

The Silent Crisis: How a Changing Ocean is Eating Away at New Zealand Mussel Shells

Gold Medal

In this experiment, I will test the effect of acidifications of oceans due to global warming and pollution on mussel shells.

The SIMPSONS Project: Screening and Induction of Microbial Probiotics for Sweetener-Optimized Novel Strain

Microbiology

Artificial sweeteners are widely used sugar substitutes, and their effects on gut microbiota remain controversial. This study investigates the antimicrobial effects of artificial sweeteners…

The Sky Is the Limit: Finding the Optimal Wing Shape for a Remote-Controlled Airplane

Engineering (inferred)

Many small aircraft face the hurdle of sluggish climbs thanks to conventional wing configurations. This can lead to increased fuel consumption and increased pollution in urban areas near air…

The Smallest Regular (n+1)-gon That Covers a Regular n-gon With Constant Side Length and Shares a Vertex With It

Mathematics

Polygons, a fundamental concept within the sub-learning area of geometry, have a versatile structure that makes them highly suitable for generalization. With applications extending across ma…

CYSF · 2025

The Sniff Test

Silver Medal

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The Sound of Feeling: How Key Signatures Influence Emotional Perception

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Music induces emotions, and emotions affect people's behavior and mental health. This project studies how different musical key signatures influence listeners' emotions. A survey was designe…

CYSF · 2025

The Sound of Sleep

The sound of sleep is an experiment based project where we’ll be testing out different sounds and how it affects our sleep.t how different types of sounds like white noise will affect your s…

CYSF · 2025

The Strands of Health

Gold Medal

This is a project that potentially determines your risk of getting stroke and diabetes.

CYSF · 2025

The Structure of the DNA!

We chose to find out what are the chemicals that affect the DNA’s model because it is a very interesting topic that will interest and increase knowledge for adults and children. This topic w…

THETA: Triangulated Hand-State Estimation for Teleoperation and Automation in Robotic Hand Control

Robotics and Intelligent Machines

The teleoperation of robotic hands is limited by the high costs of depth cameras and sensor gloves, commonly used to estimate hand relative joint positions (XYZ). We present a novel, cost-ef…

The Thermoelectric Generator Using Hot Sand

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

In today's day and age, our world has been plunged into an energy crisis. Current clean energy solutions rely on lithium-ion batteries made with cobalt and lithium. These minerals are proble…

CYSF · 2025

The Tool to Terraform Mars

Silver Medal

A machine to melt dry ice on Mars to generate co2.

The Tree Hugger Nesting Box: Designing and Field-Testing the World's First Concave Backed Tree Nesting Box Which Utilises the Thermoregulatory Properties of Trees

Animal Sciences

Traditional nesting boxes fail to replicate the stable microclimate of natural tree hollows crucial for mature tree species, due to offset designs causing large temperature fluctuations, lea…

CYSF · 2025

The Tricks Of Marketing

Bronze Medal

We are Discovering the truth behind marketing and all the little ways that company's try to get your money. We test if what they say holds up to the actual project and if the pictures match…

CYSF · 2025

The Unbreakable Taco Shell

We are trying to create a hard taco shell that only cracks under the presence of saliva.