SILVER
Grade: 6
2026

Clear Doesn't Equal Safe Flow Rate as a Hidden Variable in Bacteria Removal Testing the Contact Time Hypothesis

Evia Seeliger, Zhizhi Gao
Webber Academy

See which type of water filtration rate works the best (cleanest)

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HONOURABLE
MENTION
Grade: 11
2026

Closing the Perception Gap: Smartphone UV Detection as a Behavioral Intervention for Sunscreen Misapplication

Heer Joshi
James Fowler High School

People apply only 20-50% of recommended sunscreen, unaware of this deficit because UV radiation is invisible. I experimentally proved this gap exists and created smartphone-based UV detection that turns sun safety into verifiable cancer prevention.

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GOLD
Grade: 10
2026

ClotGuard: Autonomous Hemostatic Treatment (Co-Founded with Sophia Dhami)

Isavella Tsoulias
Queen Elizabeth High School

An autonomous pre-applied patch that detects hemorrhage and transports platelets, via nanobots, directly to the site of bleeding to mitigate blood loss - UofC project supervisors: Jeff Ryzner and Paula Berton, Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking

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Awards
Shad Community Changemaker Award
SILVER
Grade: 9
2026

Cognitive Holograms: Predicting Decisions Before Awareness

Meghna Shukla, Olivia Li
Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School

This project investigates how different types of cognitive priming influence human perception and decision‑making, particularly in the context of marketing strategies. Cognitive priming refers to the psychological phenomenon in which exposure to a specifi

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SILVER
Grade: 9
2026

Cold Climate Compost

James Horne
R. T. Alderman School

Creating an inexpensive electric composter prototype that effectively operates in freezing temperatures

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SILVER
Grade: 8
2026

Colors and the Brain

Aspen Ma, Mofe Aderounmu
Webber Academy

This project is meant to test how people relate the colors or pigments of food to how they perceive/taste it.

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SILVER
Grade: 11
2026

Combating Antifungal Resistance Through Secondary “Rescue” Mutations in Candida auris

Zafina Zaman
STEM Innovation Academy High School

Using computational molecular docking and structural bioinformatics to model how resistance-associated mutations in Candida auris disrupt fluconazole binding, with the goal of informing more precise antifungal targeting strategies.

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GOLD
Grade: 8
2026

Comparing CRISPR-Cas9 Therapy with Conventional Treatments for Diabetes

Ara Akinsanmi
Renert School

Comparing CRISPR-Cas9 Therapy with Conventional Treatments for Diabetes

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GOLD
Grade: 11
2026

Comparing Longitudinal Effectiveness of Existing Alzheimer’s Disease Treatments Via a Meta Analysis and Machine Learning Model

Manan Vyas, Taha Farooq
Renert School

A meta analysis comparing how different treatments for Alzheimer's disease impact cognitive function in people with mild Alzheimer's disease). Additionally, we will be creating an ML model that predicts cognitive scores at a future point in time.

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Awards
CYSF Travel Award
CYSF Top Senior Runner Up
C.K. and Conchita Hao Award for Ingenuity - Senior
Dr. Werner Becker Clinical Neuroscience Award