HONOURABLE
MENTION
Grade: 7
2026

Why does the earths axis rotate diagonally and what would happen if it didn't?

Aaron Bhandari
Annie Gale School

This project will tell you all about how the earth would be if it didn't have a tilt on it's axis. It will also share some other small detail about earth that we don't really look up to

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GOLD
Grade: 11
2026

Why FTL Travel is (Likely) Impossible under Modern Physics

Miles Anderson
Master's College

How faster than light travel leads to causality violations.

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Awards
Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Secondary Award
UCalgary Rising Star in Astronomy Award
HONOURABLE
MENTION
Grade: 11
2026

Wildlife in Urban Areas: Keep or Kick Out

Evrett Sansom
Western Canada High School

A project that explores the current state of wildlife in cities as well as examines hypothetical scenarios of what would happen if we eliminated or fully integrated other living organisms into our urban spaces.

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BRONZE
Grade: 6
2026

Will It Float?

Rupert Poole
Andrea Poole

I'm going to get different liquids and freeze them and then place them in cups of water to see which ones float and which ones don't float. I will then explain why some float and some don't.

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BRONZE
Grade: 5
2026

Wired To Work

Olivia Huff
Nose Creek Elementary School

My big question is how do different materials effect a circuit

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SILVER
Grade: 5
2026

Wonderful Wings: How Wing Shape Impacts the Distance a Paper Plane Flies

Adeline Robertson
R. T. Alderman School

This project looks at whether wing shape changes the distance a paper airplane can fly. Six plane designs with different wing shapes (curve and surface area) were launched under control conditions to measure and compare which travelled farthest.

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GOLD
Grade: 6
2026

Worms Vs. Waste

Erin Chung, Eva Li
Westmount Mid/High School

We will be feeding mealworms plastic with probiotics and vitamin C and see which one allows mealworms to eat more plastic

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GOLD
Grade: 6
2026

Yogurt Instinct - Do Supermarket yogurts have more live cultures than homemade

Saindhavi Surendran
Westmount Mid/High School

My project is about comparing the probiotics present in supermarket yogurt compared to homemade using them as starters.

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Awards
Alberta Teachers’ Association, Calgary Public Teachers’ Local 38 Awards -Elementary
BRONZE
Grade: 8
2026

Youth Mental Health, Smoking, and Heart Disease

Nouran Tatari
Calgary Islamic School, Omar Bin Al-Khattab Campus

My project is about how mental health and smoking in youth can increase the risk of heart disease. It aims to show how mental health and smoking can affect heart health.

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