HONOURABLE
MENTION
Grade: 6
2026

Does dog behavior change with the moon phases?

Vera Scheyk
Calgary Girls Charter School

Every night for about a month, I am watching my dog and writing his behavior onto a graph to see the impact of the moon phases.

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SILVER
Grade: 5
2026

Does eating your favorite color influence how much chocolate you eat?

Victoria Sundin
River Valley School

I am studying how colour affects how much we eat. I want to study if people’s preferred colour affects what they eat and how much. Also I will investigate if the influence of color changes with age, and overall how does age change chocolate consumption.

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Awards
CYSF Elementary Social Sciences Runner Up Award
HONOURABLE
MENTION
Grade: 9
2026

Does Feedback Improve Focus for Individuals with ADHD?

Inayah Asif
Calgary Islamic School, Akram Jomaa Campus

A research about ADHD and how giving positive or negative feedback improves their focus. If it Increases or decreases?

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GOLD
Grade: 5
2026

Does Freezing Hockey Pucks Impact Performance?

Jason Forrester
Delta West Academy

Determining if freezing hockey pucks impacts their performance. I will test how far frozen vs. room temperature hockey pucks will be able to travel, as well as how easily they handle.

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BRONZE
Grade: 11
2026

Does lighting Effect your Mood?

Garvit Bajaj
James Fowler High School

Lighting significantly influences emotions and behavior by stimulating different brain areas, with warm tones like red often exciting the mind and cool tones like blue showing calm, it can also affect a persons productivity, depending on different ranges!

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HONOURABLE
MENTION
Grade: 6
2026

Does playing video games make your reaction time faster. If so, why?

Max Gao, Nikaan Akhbari
Hillhurst School

We will be doing experiments on adults and kids for reaction time before and after they play the video games. We will record the our answers and do some research why playing video games make their reaction time faster or slower.

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BRONZE
Grade: 8
2026

Does screen size and distance affect the level of visual fatigue and eye blink rate?

Angie Zhang, Isabella Luong
West Island College

In our digital world, we spend hours looking at devices, but we don't often think about how they affect our eyes. My project investigates whether screen size and viewing distance have an affect on the level of visual fatigue and eye blink rate.

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SILVER
Grade: 5
2026

Does storage temperature affect hand sanitizer’s effectiveness?

Knox Thorogood, Tyler Luong
River Valley School

We will incubate petri dishes to measure the amount of bacterial colonies before and after using hand sanitizer under different temperature conditions.

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GOLD
Grade: 6
2026

Does study music really affect the ability to absorb information?

Saanvi Prakash
Connect Charter School

I will test how long it takes for somebody to read a fictional story with no music, and classical music. They will then answer questions based on the story with no music and classical music.

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Awards
CYSF Director's Award