2021 Award Winners

GOLD- CWSF Finalist Natural Resources Challenge Award

A Novel Approach Towards Constructing Bioplastic Out of Natural Waste, Pauline Botros

GOLD- CWSF Finalist Curiosity and Ingenuity Challenge Award Environment Award

BioGrade Yeast: Protecting Martian Biofactories with a Novel cfAFP-501-CcMreB Polymer, Patricia Rea

GOLD- CWSF Finalist Disease and Illness Challenge Award

Cancer Detection with Histopathology Neural Networks, Ian Patrick Tan & Koral Kulacoglu

GOLD- CWSF Finalist, Digital Technology Challenge, Ottawa University Entrance Scholarship, York University Entrance Scholarship, Cournoyea/ Paz-Soldan, Peer Award

ConchShell: A Wearable ASL Translator Leveraging Novel Machine Learning and Computer Vision, Jin Schofield & Sarvnaz Ale Mohammad

GOLD- CWSF Finalist

Cover Me Treasure From Porch Pirates Arr! Emily Jing

GOLD- CWSF Finalist

Evaluation of Cinnamomum verum as a Therapeutic Approach in Diabetic Bombyx mori, Rafia Nadeem

GOLD- CWSF Finalist, Health and Wellness AminoLabs Promising Biologist Award

Hand Washing Always Wins, But Why at the Cost of Dry Damaged Skin? Noah Bryan

GOLD- CWSF Finalist

RTAT-UVC: Using Renal Tubular Acidosis Treatment and Ultraviolet Rays to Disinfect Gloves, Holly Zhang

GOLD- CWSF Finalist, Worley Parsons Engineers of Tomorrow Award

Sound Waves Do Not Die Out, Grace Dang

SILVER- Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Award 1st Place

A Slippery Slope: Cleaning Up Oil Spills with Natural Methods, Sherry Shu

SILVER

Emotion Recognition in Music with Convolutional Neural Network, Chenyang (John) Wang

SILVER- Energy Challenge Award, Ted Rogers Innovation Award

From Waste to Wonder: What Can We Do With Biowaste? Niko Voth

SILVER

Improving CPAP Machines, Julia Ilioukhina

SILVER- York University Science Explorations (SciX) Camp

Intruder Detection with AI Model based Computer Vision, Grant Ou

SILVER

Knock on the door of Infrared Astronomy: A New Method to Reduce Palomar/TripleSpec Data, Fred Shao

SILVER- Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Award

Operation Valor, Parisa Acharya/ Shuhan Dai

SILVER- Evgeny Rosen Home Innovation Award

Neutralizing Airborne Viruses Using an Autonomous Mobilized Negative Ionizer to Improve Air Quality, Samar Qureshi

SILVER- Environment and Climate Change Challenge Award

The Clear Vinner, Sakina Abbas

BRONZE

A drip in the lungs, Asiya Hasham

BRONZE

Bacteria Accumulation in Reusable Masks, Alice Xu

BRONZE- York University Science Explorations (SciX) Camp

Creating an Artificial Pancreas, Naomi Lue

BRONZE

Got milk? Make a face shield! Daisy Wang

BRONZE

Mind the Spine, Sierra Rajabali

BRONZE

Sensitive Skins with Alcohol- Any Alternatives? Jeffrey Chiu

BRONZE

Soaring to the Heights, Sylvia Zhang

BRONZE

Sound of Light, Varna Venkatesh

BRONZE

Speeding Up the Process of Anaerobic Decomposition, Sophia Nazari

BRONZE

Take a Step Back! Mia Huang