CYSF · 2026
Gold Medal
This project focuses on designing and building an assistive cane equipped with ultrasonic sensors to help visually impaired individuals detect obstacles more effectively. The system uses ult…
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
Focused ultrasound (FUS) with microbubbles can noninvasively open the blood–brain barrier (BBB) for targeted drug delivery, but the method is limited by off-target acoustic sidelobes, which…
Software Design
Thermal anomaly detection from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is increasingly used for applications such as early wildfire discovery, post-disaster monitoring, and infrastructure inspection…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Pancreatic cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers worldwide, as pancreatic tumors are small and often obscured by surrounding anatomical structures. Computed tomography (CT) is the prim…
Translational Medical Science
First Award
Retinal degenerative diseases (RDDs) affect 300 million patients worldwide. Current imaging techniques detect RDDs in late stages after significant vision loss. Approximately 40% of Retinal…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Feminicide remains one of the most severe expressions of gender-based violence worldwide, reflecting structural inequalities of race, territory, age, and social context. In Brazil, underrepo…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading global cause of mortality, with myocardial infarction resulting in permanent myocardial loss due to the limited regenerative capacity of adult card…
CYSF · 2026
Silver Medal
Is recycling actually beneficial than other waste managements or is it worse. I will be looking into how recycling affects the different factors of the earth and what hidden secrets do we no…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Growing up, I often compared myself to others, which led me to wonder whether it was possible to quantify self-esteem and how academic performance can influence it. Because the pressures fol…
Environmental Engineering (Track 2) (Junior Division)
Second Award
Throughout the world coral reefs are dying out due to changes in water temperature and pollution, ruining one of the most important ecosystems in terms of food, resources, and products for h…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alphafold, a protein-folding prediction tool created by Google DeepMind, has shown unprecedented ability to accurately simulate the 3D structure of proteins given an amino acid sequence. Bas…
Translational Medical Science
Second Award
Melanoma is the most fatal type of skin cancer, taking over 50,000 lives annually. While advances in checkpoint immunotherapy have decreased mortality rates, it is difficult to determine whi…
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
Third Award
Each year, over 350,000 people in the United States experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, and nearly 90% do not survive. Early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can triple survival ra…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
Each year, over 350,000 people in the United States experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, and nearly 90% do not survive. Early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can triple survival ra…
Mathematics
Second Award
Cryptographic systems securing global communications depend on computationally hard mathematical problems. Yet, the divisibility structure of combinatorial objects like Pascal’s Triangle rem…
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
Second Award
The computational power of quantum computing is expected to expedite advances in fields from chemistry to machine learning. However, this potential is locked behind the high error rates of p…
CWSF · 2026
Energy
Bronze Medal
Climate change has created an urgent need for sustainable energy solutions. My project investigates whether a wind tunnel can be used to recover wasted kinetic energy. By adding a Vertical A…
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Prosthetics are everywhere these days, and lots of people with them are proud to show them off! However, there is one major problem in the prosthetic field, and that is cost. Due to intensiv…
Chemistry
Second Award
Silicon (Si) anodes could revolutionize lithium-ion batteries by expanding capacity eleven-fold. However, Si expansion during charging compromises battery integrity, preventing practical app…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
Think of fruits that are the color blue. Most people will mention the blueberry. But here is the question, "Is it really blue?" The flesh isn't. The pigment in the skin also isn't. We will a…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity
Un passage à niveau révolutionnaire est un passage à niveau plus sécuritaire avec une barrière une en haut de l'autre plutôt qu'au même niveau. Cette nouvelle technologie permet de réduire g…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
This project will be a research study about breast cancer and how Genetics, human biology, and environmental effect as lead to the increase over some years and ways to solve the issue so tha…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
how much voltage can you get from things like potato's (comparing)
Materials Science
Shear-thickening fluid (STF) impregnation into aramid-fiber materials is a new concept with most of its advancements happening within the past ten years. This project tested two samples, a 1…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Middle-aged and elderly people are prone to frozen shoulder, which causes shoulder pain and restricted arm movement, significantly affecting their daily lives. Doctors usually recommend reha…
Plant Biology (Senior Division)
Climate-change induced drought stress has intensified the need for sustainable and resilient agricultural practices. Among various techniques, biopriming with plant growth–promoting rhizobac…
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
A flash flood is when an area floods due to sudden extreme rainfall or another natural condition. Because of their destructive power, many families lose their homes yearly due to flash flood…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This study aims to build an on-device edge computing system that leverages Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in place of the conventionally used Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for real-tim…
Biomedical Engineering
This engineering project develops a low-cost, portable device to quantify back pain risk in youth, aiming to reduce progression of chronic spinal conditions. Back pain affects 39% of adults…
CYSF · 2026
Gold Medal
We made an artificial intelligence that recognizes patterns in voice to predict a person's chances of having Parkinson's disease.