Software Design
Air pollution is a growing threat, and conventional air quality monitors are expensive, sparsely distributed, often failing to capture micro-level pollution variation and local "hot spots" t…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
While racial smoking disparities are well-documented, traditional socioeconomic models often overlook the discordance between educational attainment and income. This study investigates ‘stat…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Language models are increasingly explored for classifying online messages during disasters to route resources, however interpretability is demanded for opaque models. No prior work has chara…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
In many motorsports, such as Formula One, race cars utilize an effect known as ground effect, where the entire body of the race car is used as an aerofoil, with the bottom of the car speedin…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change
The water levels of Gull Lake have been dropping drastically over the past 100 years since 1920. Which is effecting not only the home owners but also the ecosystem and marine life surroundin…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Second Award
Drug combination therapy is a cornerstone of modern oncology, but identifying effective combinations for a patient's specific tumor remains difficult as possible combinations grow rapidly wi…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change
My name is Naomi Osborn, and my project is a working model of the water cycle and a poster explaining it, as well as the water cycle itself. I am a 7th grader, 13 years old, and I live in Ra…
CYSF · 2026
What are phobias?, how phobias happen, why we have them, why are they important and what's the difference between anxiety and phobias.
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Edible electronics mark the beginning of a new era of medical technology, replacing invasive diagnostic procedures with new applications, which range from non-invasive monitoring of the gast…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
This project shows how different fruit pulps produce electricity with zinc and copper electrodes.
Physics and Astronomy
As the discovery of compact multi-planet systems advances, classical Newtonian dynamics are proving insufficient for predicting long-term orbital stability, resulting in over-optimistic orbi…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
About 730 million people globally lack access to electricity according to the International Energy Agency, emphasizing the need for low-cost, sustainable energy solutions. An alternative to…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace
Silver Medal
Commercial aircraft design has remained relatively unchanged for decades, and the conventional design has been optimized to the point where large gains in efficiency are unlikely. Aviation i…
Biomedical Engineering
Early disease diagnostics rely primarily on biochemical reactions requiring centralized laboratories or significant processing time. However, malignant transformation alters the electrical p…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity
I studied the effects of increasing Ultraviolet (UV) radiation exposure on E. coli to test how it affects DNA to then apply that to our own DNA as well as other applications. I grew my E. co…
Software Design
Phishing, credential theft, and password reuse still remains as a major causes of digital account compromise. This project investigated if a low-cost hardware-bound identity device could pot…
Software Design
Preadolescent exposure to harmful short-form video (SFV) content now exceeds 60% (eSafety Commissioner). Current moderation pipelines, particularly TikTok's "Filter & Refine" architecture, l…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology
Bronze Medal
We developed a system called TILES to help students learn the Thai flute more easily and accurately. Learning this instrument is very detailed, and many students struggle because they do not…
CYSF · 2026
a study of neural transmission, aging, and the potential role of technology.
CYSF · 2026
We did a experiment to see how long people percieve time to be passing while playing video games.
As humanity ventures beyond Earth, the challenges of space travel extend far beyond rocket science and astrophysics. Astronauts face extreme physiological stresses—cosmic radiation, muscle a…
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
This experiment uses high-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectroscopy (HPLC-MS/MS) to measure estradiol changes in hair due to hormone suppression for breast cancer treatment.…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: Antibiotic resistance is growing. Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that infect bacteria; using phages and antibiotics together has a synergistic effect. This study applied phages…
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Junior Division)
Microplastics are a growing environmental concern due to their presence in water systems and potential impact on potential ecosystems and human health. The purpose of this experiment was to…
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) is a severe, chronic form of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD). An estimated 16 to 17 million Americans have NASH, and another 80 to 100 million…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Second Award
All-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries (ASSLSBs) have emerged as the next-generation energy storage systems due to their high energy density (~2600 Wh kg?¹) and safety, enabled by non-flam…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In the US, 1 in 3 individuals develops cancer in their lifetime. Yet, drug failure rates remain near 90%. Deciphering immune-cancer interactions within the tumor microenvironment (TME) is im…
CYSF · 2026
Silver Medal
I'm using a 4 three- meter pipes with a Bathroom vent on one end that absorbs and blows air. The pipe will go from upstairs to the basement so it absorbs the warm air from upstairs and blows…
Plant Biology (Senior Division)
The health benefits of vitamin C are known for its ability to act as an antioxidant, used in skin serums, consumed through fruit, and strengthen our overall health and immune system. When we…
Software Design
Fourth Award
Severe motor disabilities create a critical interaction gap, yet existing Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) suffer from signal instability, environmental sensitivity, and reliance on invasive…