CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Bronze Medal
When writing braille by hand, the writer will often use a braille slate. Using a standard braille slate, they write from the back of the page, which creates a unique challenge as the letters…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology
Bronze Medal
Visually impaired people often face challenges in safely navigating their environment due to limited awareness of surrounding objects. Traditional canes primarily detect ground-level obstacl…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Bronze Medal
Our project focuses on using statistical measures to make comparisons between the different factors that can affect Alzheimer’s disease cognitive trajectories. Firstly, we conducted a meta-a…
CWSF · 2026
Natural Resources
Silver Medal
Across the US and Canada, approximately 260,000 water main breaks occur every year, one every two minutes. Deteriorating pipeline infrastructure has become a prevalent problem in the 21st ce…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Silver Medal
A Technical Method of Responsive Cellophane Films for Real Time Spoilage Detection is a scientific innovation experiment that identifies and tests a cellophane film fabricated with red cabba…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Gold Medal
This project explores how a wearable tail could help seniors with Parkinson’s disease maintain balance, reducing their risk of falls. Using built-in sensors to detect when they are unstable,…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food
Gold Medal
The plastic mulch film, a plastic sheet applied to agricultural soils, increases crop yield through its benefits such as moisture retention and weed suppression. However, due to their potent…
CWSF · 2026
Energy
Bronze Medal
Operating conditions inside nuclear reactors promote material degradation, inhibiting the maturity of nuclear capabilities. In pressurized water reactors (PWRs), heat exchanger materials are…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is a high mortality disease identified as one of the Top 10 eradicable global diseases. In Alberta, there are about 19,000 HCV patients, with 50 -75% being undiagnose…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Silver Medal
One-third of individuals with schizophrenia are treatment-resistant, largely because the disorder’s biological mechanisms are poorly understood, and as a result, current treatments fail to a…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Silver Medal
Cancer is often deadly, not always because it cannot be treated, but because it is found too late. In this project, I built two low-cost systems that use artificial intelligence to help dete…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Every year nearly half of cardiac rehab patients quit before finishing recovery. With a specific cardiac rehab program helping over 550 patients with heart disease and diabetes restrengthen…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace
Drag reduction is crucial for the aviation industry: a 1.1% reduction can save billions of dollars annually and benefit the environment, yet passive flow-control for aircrafts at cruising-co…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change
Silver Medal
Climate change is a pressing issue facing people around the globe. Its impacts are devastating: extreme weather events, droughts, water scarcity and wildfires like the one in Jasper two year…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity
Silver Medal
Petroleum-based insulation foams make up a substantial portion of the global insulation market, yet they yield significant negative impacts on the environment. Current biobased alternatives…