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Bronze(5103) MeGaPlaNt
Students: Tryphaena Cheng, Siobhan Yu
School: Home Schooled
(7101) Does the different concentration of a chemical affect the speed of damage it does to an organism?
Students: Jace Hsiung, Joel Ean Yeak
School: Home Schooled
(3101) Radar vs Wings, The Battle of Reflection and Stealth
Students: Samuel Leung, Ethan Hayes
School: Home Schooled
(5106) Flashlight Flora: Can Artificial Light Keep Up?
Students: Darsh Saxena, Changmin Jeon
School: Burnaby South Secondary
(7203) Hunting Extremely High-Velocity Outflows (EHVOs) in Quasars: A Machine Learning Approach to Improve EHVO Classification
Student: Jiazhen (Gordon) Zhao
School: Pinetree Secondary
(7102) The Bioplastic Breakdown Race
Student: Maya Sotoudeh
School: St. Thomas Aquinas
(2102) A Comparative Analysis of Daphnia magna Exposed to Pharmaceutical Contaminants, Ophthalmic Chemicals, and Their Combined Exposure
Student: Elizabeth Louie
School: Corpus Christi School
(5109) How does age affect semantic false memory and false confidence?
Student: Abigail Tong
School: Vancouver Christian
(2202) Pivot For Power: A solution for the shading problem solar panels face.
Student: William Wong
School: St George's School
(1203) Enhancing Alzheimer’s Detection from MRI: Deep Learning on Imbalanced Clinical Data
Student: Angela Li
School: Burnaby North Secondary
(3303) SweatSense: A Low-Cost Eccrine Sweat Biosensing Technology for Diabetes Diagnosis and Management
Student: Alvin Sheng
School: St George's School
(4307) Aryl AI: A machine learning–based framework for early prediction and detection of Alzheimer's disease.
Student: Wennie Xu
School: Mulgrave School
(5118) What type of music helps pepole focus best?
Student: Meredith Marcoux
School: Brockton Preparatory School
(4312) Modelling Butyrate-Producing (SCFA) Prebiotics to Mitigate Dysbiosis-Linked Alpha-Synuclein Misfolding in Parkinson’s Disease
Student: Grace Guo
School: Sentinel Secondary
(2113) Sipping Sustainably
Students: Ethan Chan, Issac Huang
School: R C Palmer Secondary
(1307) UEDU: An Explainable and Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence Tool for Early Detection of Mental Health Distress in Student Writing
Students: Harold Wang, James Wang
School: West Point Grey Academy
(3308) Closing the Response Gap: Autonomous Robotic Assistance for Elderly Falls
Students: Ethan Song, Brian Song
School: Burnaby North Secondary
(5304) Genetics of sickle cell
Student: Marie Rusak
School: Alpha Secondary
(5206) How do the Proteolytic Decomposition Rates of Various Proteins Influence the Colorimetric Response of an Red Cabbage Agar Film
Students: Katherine Chen, Serena Huang
School: Mulgrave School
(4105) Evolutionary Conserved Amino Acid Residues in the CFTR Protein
Student: Kylie Pohlodkova
School: Como Lake Middle School
(7114) The Effect of Different Types of Household Food Waste on the Strength of Alginate Bioplastics
Student: Lucie Neumann
School: Stratford Hall
(3211) Flying trains?: A novel approach to improving speed and energy efficiency on bullet trains
Student: Oliver Hoag
School: Prince of Wales Secondary
(7303) Nu Caller ID: Using Multi-Messenger Astronomy to Identify Celestial Events
Student: Corvin Mak
School: David Thompson Secondary
(5207) Hybrid Oyster Mushroom-Microalgae Biofilms: A Novel Approach to Indoor Mold Inhibition
Student: Caroline Lan
School: Prince of Wales Secondary
(4107) GM ou / or Glyphosate? Les effets du soja Roundup Ready et du glyphosate sur le santé / The effects of Roundup Ready soybeans and Roundup on health
Student: Siobhan McCallum
School: Kerrisdale Elementary
(3215) A Low-Cost Face-Computer Interface Wheelchair System for People with Paralysis Neck-Down
Student: Jun Kim Kato
School: David Thompson Secondary
(1309) Novel foundations for faster cryptanalysis algorithms aided by machine learning
Student: Matthew Tong
School: Stratford Hall
(4214) The Effects of Chlorine Exposure Duration on the Mass of the Epidermal Barrier of Simulated Skin
Students: Alice Hynes, Uma Ratcliffe
School: Stratford Hall
(1110) AI vs. Real-Life Classical Music
Student: Chloe Chong
School: Prince of Wales Secondary
(1111) Can Humans tell the difference between AI images and photographed images? (Man Vs. Machine)
Student: Mateo Sparica
School: St John's School
(5216) Strong Saliva: The impacts of graphene oxide exposure on silkworm silk production
Student: Lena Sivucha
School: Prince of Wales Secondary
(4316) Identification of Cerebrospinal Fluid Proteomic Signatures for Reliable Personalized Multiple Sclerosis Management
Student: Benjamin Lee
School: David Thompson Secondary
(2210) Pyrolysis: Save BC from Plastic Waste
Student: Afeefa Anwar
School: Matthew McNair Secondary
(2306) Boundary-Aware Attention Networks for Satellite-Based Deforestation Segmentation
Student: Aiden Leong
School: David Thompson Secondary
(2122) The Affects of Botanicals on Water Chemistry
Student: Evan Harlos
School: Carson Graham Secondary
Silver
(5104) Does 5-HTP Increase Polyethylene Consumption in Wax Worms?
Student: Ethan Zhang
School: Vancouver Christian
(7202) Sea the Difference 2: An Engineering Approach to Seawater Remediation of Acid Mine Drainage
Student: Cleavon Wang
School: St George's School
(4303) A Correlative Study on Color-Preference Visual Art in Regulating Affective States Among Neurotypical and Neurodivergent Youth
Student: Minseok Kim
School: St. Thomas Aquinas
(2301) SoilSecura: A Novel CNN Framework for Global Tillage Monitoring Using Remote Sensing
Student: Cheng-En Wilson Li
School: St George's School
(2201) Aluminating Plant Food: Transforming Acidic Mordant Waste into Sustainable Fertilizer
Student: Yuxi (Laura) Chen
School: R C Palmer Secondary
(5114) Effects of Feeder Colours and Sugar Concentration on Hummingbird Food Preferences
Student: Zarina Abraham-Erhart
School: Our Lady of Fatima
(4305) Polypharma-Approach to Drug Redesign In Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Inflammatory Treatment
Student: Sriroopa Vijayanarayanan
School: Alpha Secondary
(6301) Forecasting Anxiety Trajectories from Irregular GAD-7 Time Series Using Ornstein–Uhlenbeck Stochastic Differential Equation and Kalman Filtering
Student: Aiden Kang
School: Alpha Secondary
(5117) Slow vs Fast paced videos, how do different types TV affect cognitive ability
Student: Lochlan McGuire
School: Island Pacific School
(1303) PAC-RoPE: A Novel Phase-Amplitude Coupling Approach to Rotary Position Encodings for Long-Context Transformers
Student: Karen Chen
School: Crofton House
(3105) Chaeto-Trap: A Novel Bio-friendly Microplastic Filter
Student: Yumeng Zhong
School: West Point Grey Academy
(3304) 50 kW Electric Go-kart Conversion
Student: Charlie Barnes
School: Chatelech Secondary
(1306) AimFit: AI-Powered Interactive Fitness Game for Seniors
Student: Audrey Fan
School: Burnaby North Secondary
(1105) Smart Trash Can
Students: Victoria Wang, Claire Jang
School: Hillcrest Middle School
(3109) HOW MUCH WEIGHT CAN A SOFT GRIPPER HOLD?
Students: Raphael Yuen, Austin Li
School: Burnaby North Secondary
(3207) EEG-Based Detection of Cognitive Overload in Students Using an Engagement Index
Student: Eric Miao
School: West Point Grey Academy
(3208) Nano-Scale Indoor Localization: Distributed Matrix Time-of-Flight Sensing for GNSS-Denied Micro Aerial Vehicles
Student: Ethan Xie
School: West Point Grey Academy
(3309) Novel AI-Driven Photoacoustic Imaging for Non-Invasive Composition-Based Early Stroke Risk Screening
Student: Warren Chen
School: St George's School
(5305) Hydrogel-Based Contact Lenses as Enzyme Delivery Platforms: A Model System to Treat Floaters in Myopic Eyes
Student: Angie Liu
School: Sir Winston Churchill Secondary
(7117) Lubricant Vs. Yoyo
Student: Jace Leung
School: Sir Winston Churchill Secondary
(2116) Testing the Decomposability of Different Single-Use Straws
Student: Alexa Tang
School: Prince of Wales Secondary
(7118) How does different surface preparations affect top coat/paint adhesion and finish on plastic model kits?
Student: Huxley Lin
School: Prince of Wales Secondary
(5212) Mind in Motion: Investigating how short-form content affects short-term memory in adolescents
Students: Shriya Nair, Mina Hwang
School: Eric Hamber Secondary
(1210) AURORA: Alzheimer’s Unified Representation for Omni-modal Risk Analysis
Student: Shalik Bhushan
School: Burnaby North Secondary
(5213) A Novel Real Time AI-Assisted Adaptive Color Enhancement Pipeline for Protanomaly and Deuteranomaly
Students: Kase Chan, Marcus Chick
School: Sir Winston Churchill Secondary
(4110) pH Power: Testing the Effectiveness of Antacids
Student: Madeline Hughes
School: Prince of Wales Secondary
(2119) Reef Relief; Creating Environmental Monitoring System Devices to Predict Imminent Coral Bleaching
Student: Isabel Alex
School: David Thompson Secondary
Gold
(4201) EEG-Based Detection of Colour Vision Deficiency Using Chromatic Stimuli
Student: Yohann Abraham-Erhart
School: École Dr. Charles Best Secondary
(7201) GO Green: A Novel PLA-GO Composite as a Sustainable Alternative for Water Filtration
Student: Aaron Bai
School: St George's School
(4302) ChronicGel: Fabrication of Novel Hydrogel-MOFs(metal-organic-frameworks) based composite material for Chronic wound healing
Student: Christopher Li
School: St George's School
(5301) Discovering Functions of Wolbachia Genes
Student: Sean Park
School: Burnaby North Secondary
(3301) Low-Consumption Design of an Ostrich-Inspired Bipedal Running Robot: A Bionic Mobile Platform for Low-Interference Environmental Monitoring
Student: ZiLing Zhang
School: Crofton House
(7204) EdwinetoFluid: Magnetorheological Fluid–Driven Rolling Soft Robot for Tissue-Sparing Minimally Invasive Therapy
Student: Edwin Jiao
School: St George's School
(5202) Mind Your Own Thickness: A Novel Longitudinal Network-Based Approach to Cortical Thickness Dynamics and Neuropsychiatric Risk Prediction
Student: Chantelle Yen
School: R C Palmer Secondary
(5116) Fuel the Flick - Does warming up increase your distance?
Student: Jack Scott
School: Island Pacific School
(1204) Artificial Collective Intelligence: Carpenter Ant-Inspired Stigmergic Swarm Robotics for Decentralized Systems Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Student: Christopher Lin
School: Home Schooled
(3106) Can the Miura Ori fold give enough strength to support pressurized pipes?
Student: Khian Mau
School: Aubrey Elementary
(7110) Penzyme
Students: Ella Hu, Helena Se
School: R C Palmer Secondary
(4102) EXODEC: A Novel Computational Framework for Multi-Stage Evaluation and Rational Design of Blood-Brain Barrier Ligands Beyond Binding Affinity
Student: Willem Vuurmans
School: West Point Grey Academy
(7301) Analyzing the Effectiveness of Muon Tomography as a Non-Invasive Assement of Seawall Degredation
Students: Kyle Tsui, Heyi Li
School: Collingwood School
(2112) Smart Wind: AI-Optimized Funnel Design for Portable Wind Turbines
Student: David Shilletto
School: St George's School
(7206) Development of a Universal, Non-Fouling Non-Polar Pollutant Wastewater Filter
Student: Justin (Jiaxing) Guo
School: St George's School
(3110) UroAlert: You’re in (Urine) Control! A Wearable System for Estimating Urostomy Bag Fill Levels Using Flex Sensors and IMU Data
Student: Neo Chan
School: St John's School
(4210) Impact of Thermal Treatment on Turmeric’s Antioxidant Activity
Student: Anjali Grewal
School: Stratford Hall
(5125) Red Greens: Martian Regolith Amendments / Du rouge au vert : modifications pour le régolite martien
Student: Joshua Lax
School: Kerrisdale Elementary
(3214) AI-Driven Sailboat to Protect Marine Ecosystems
Student: Nara Harvey
School: Eric Hamber Secondary
(5208) L'analyse différentielle d'expression génique d'astrocytes sous condition inflammatoire ou le KO du GBA pour élucider les effets isoler et combiner
Student: Sophia Ding
School: Eric Hamber Secondary
(3216) Iron Repair, With Micro-Care: A Novel Dissolvable Microneedle Patch Inspired by Biomimicry to Improve Transdermal Iron Delivery
Students: Averil Lu, Wailea Lu
School: Prince of Wales Secondary
(4108) Derma-Heal: A Natural, pH-Indicating Antimicrobial Treatment for Accessible Wound Care
Student: Arjunvir Tuteja
School: David Thompson Secondary
(7208) VARION: Analytical Plasma Modelling and Testing of a Versatile Atmospheric Ion Thruster for Orbital and Interplanetary Propulsion
Student: Kushal Polamarasetty
School: Templeton Secondary
(2304) An Underwater Image Enhancement Robotic System (YOLO Detection) for Salmon Eggs Monitoring
Students: JayJay Zhou, Brian Guo
School: Collingwood School
(2208) Nature's Green Liver: The Phytoremediation Potential of Brassica Juncea (Indian Mustard)
Student: Ananya Srivalli
School: David Thompson Secondary
(1310) In Silico Diabetes Management and Prediction: A Personalized Hybrid Physics-ML System
Student: Jora Singh Nahal
School: University Hill Secondary
(1114) Optimizing LLMs for Mathematical Precision through Dataset Scaling
Student: Luca Li
School: St George's School
(7304) CryoPhase: Electrically Tunable Interfacial Stabilization for Cold-Resilient Energy Systems
Students: Veronica Nguyen, Lydia Choi
School: Crofton House, Eric Hamber Secondary
Honorable Mention
(5101) How Does Sound Affect Yeast Growth?
Student: Magnus Eriksson
School: Choice School For Gifted Children
(3102) Creating Clean Energy Through Walking - Every Step Counts
Student: Johannes Wendl
School: St. Thomas Aquinas
(1201) Enhancing fairness in Skin Lesion Segmentation: CNN performance across the ISIC Dataset and impact of data augmentation.
Student: Sam Charaley
School: Collingwood School
(7103) Areodynamic Lift, Need for speed
Student: Liam Ko
School: Mulgrave School
(3201) Origami-Inspired Structures for Energy Absorption Under Compressive Loading
Student: Karen Zhao
School: Collingwood School
(3202) A Novel Approach to Enhancing Ocean Renewable Energy Generation Using Piezoelectric Technology
Student: Hugo Gu
School: J N Burnett Secondary
(2104) Control of Invasive Hedera helix (English ivy) in Coastal Environments
Student: Edward Prochazka
School: Brockton Preparatory School
(1102) Which Different Machine Learning Models can Most Effectively Classify Cognitive Load based on Facial Micromovements?
Student: Lucas Wang
School: Brockton Preparatory School
(5112) Does the visual context of an individual affect the judgments others' make about them?
Student: Haley Ho
School: Brockton Preparatory School
(2106) Chlorine Currents- How does the legal discharge of chlorine limit into ocean water into the ocean affect seagrass?
Student: Storm Beals
School: Island Pacific School
(5115) Blue Beauty - How temperature affects crystal growth
Student: Harper Stiver
School: Island Pacific School
(1302) Eyetype: An inexpensive eye-tracking-based solution to enable higher efficiency communication for individuals with motor impairments.
Students: Yousef Soliman, Asher Memon
School: St George's School
(4203) Novel Design for Monitoring Head Position after Pneumatic Retinopexy
Student: Man Hei Kwok
School: York House School
(1104) Can AI be a good psychologist? - A test on AI recognizing human emotions
Students: Twinkle Mo, Pamela Shi
School: Burnaby South Secondary
(5303) In Vitro Diffusion Analysis of the Antibiotic Properties of North American Plants Against Pathogenic Bacteria
Students: Khafri Mau, Ashley Shen
School: Burnaby North Secondary
(3103) Vacuum in Peace
Students: Evan Lin, Paolo Ocampo
School: Howard De Beck Elementary
(4306) How Different Seated Activities Affect Centre of Mass and Weight Distribution
Student: James Zhang
School: École Dr. Charles Best Secondary
(2302) Low-Cost, Accessible Pre-Treatment for High-Organic Domestic Wastewater in Rural Tropical Southeast Asia Using Moringa oleifera and Okra Seeds
Students: Cindy Liu, Rina (Haerin) Kim
School: Burnaby North Secondary
(7108) Interactive Solubility Modeling: Predicting Dissolution in Mixed Water–Alcohol Solvents Using Data?Driven Analysis
Student: Norah Zhao
School: Collingwood School
(2109) Do fire retardant chemicals affect the germination of seeds, and which specific elements are the leading cause of stunted germination?
Students: Nisa Karim, Livana Zhao
School: West Point Grey Academy
(4311) Exploration of Caffeine Concentration in Coffee and Tea as affected by preparation method
Student: Emma Wang
School: York House School
(3206) A Fresh Approach: Intelligent Monitoring of Produce Quality in Refrigeration
Student: Violet O'Connell
School: York House School
(5204) Bromelain’s Potential Impact on Reducing the Appearance of Hypertrophic Scarring
Student: Evelyn Doyle
School: York House School
(4208) Impact of static versus dynamic warm-up types on acute dance performance
Student: Yiran Li
School: York House School
(4103) The Science Behind Sugar: Investigating Zero-Calorie Sugar Alternatives and Their Role in Diabetes Research
Students: Phoebe Zhang, Islandra Macdonald
School: Hillcrest Middle School
(3307) An Experimental Study on the Conversion of Waste CO2 Into Industrially Viable Fuels through Reactive Carbon Capture: A Bimetallic Catalyst Approach
Student: Ann Wang
School: West Point Grey Academy
(2115) Investigating the Effectiveness of Different Beeswax Coating Mixtures on Apple Preservation: A Comprehensive Study of Natural Food Preservation Method
Students: Daniel Wang, Calson Lu
School: R C Palmer Secondary
(7112) How Different Levels of Forces Affect Bruising on Fruits And How We Prevent It + Why
Students: Chloé Li, Hannah Bejoe
School: Burnaby South Secondary
(3306) SENTRIUS: A Modular Humanoid Robotics Framework for Studying Social Acceptance of Embodied AI
Student: Nirmay Singh
School: Burnaby North Secondary
(7115) How do light levels affect the electricity production of an algae battery measured in watts by a multimeter?
Student: Kohen Evans
School: Stratford Hall
(4315) A NOVEL LOW-COST MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH FOR SCREENING AFLATOXIN RISK IN PEANUTS USING UV FLUORESCENCE
Students: Shutang Zhang, Ken Cheng
School: Collingwood School, Mulgrave School
(4106) How does the pH level of beverages affect the mass (grams) of eggshells used as a model for tooth enamel over time?
Student: Areez Jamal
School: Stratford Hall
(1207) See it Differently Through the Colour Vision Deficiency Simulator
Student: Michael Skrypnyk
School: Prince of Wales Secondary
(1208) Reinforcement Learning in a Simulated Predator–Prey Ecosystem
Student: Sam Ma
School: Point Grey Secondary
(4213) Big Social Media vs. Well-Being
Student: Wynn Wong
School: Sir Charles Tupper Secondary
(3111) How does the air flow temperature affect the rate of condensation in an atmospheric water generator?
Students: Xiechan Dou, Cailey Kwong
School: Stratford Hall
(2205) Holy Smolts! Can riverbank erosion be controlled using natural methods to help reduce salmon smolt mortality?
Student: Claire Krause
School: Prince of Wales Secondary
(5211) Indoor Small-Scale Aquaponic Systems 2.0: Comparative Analysis of a Living Wall-Integrated System and an Enhanced Nutrient Film Technique System
Student: Emerson Wang
School: David Thompson Secondary
(2207) The Impact of Calcium Carbonate Bioplastics for Soil Acidity and Plant Growth
Student: Tanya Norani
School: St John's School
(3113) Which Stick has the Highest Statistical Performance?
Student: Dylan Tam
School: Prince of Wales Secondary
(2120) Biotic vs. Abiotic Greywater Filtration: A Comparison of a Wetland Plant and a Multi-Media Filter
Student: Andrew Davidson
School: Prince of Wales Secondary
(1113) One Brain, Any Body: Machine Learning Approach to Morphology-Agnostic Robot Control
Student: Syon Bhushan
School: St George's School
(3313) Real-Time Bird Detection and Tracking Using AI Object Detection with Infrared Confirmation
Student: Manny Baghaei
School: Sentinel Secondary
(1115) BearWatch: A Novel Real-Time AI System for Wildlife Intrusion Detection and Advance Warning
Students: Archisman Hazra, Aayushman Hazra
School: Sentinel Secondary
(3221) S.C.A.N.N.E.R
Students: Arav Bangur, Gene Doho
School: Port Moody Secondary