April 30, 2007

Volume 85, Number 18

p. 36

NCW Poster Winners Announced

Photos by Linda Wang

At the spring national meeting in Chicago, members of the American Chemical Society Committee on Community Activities selected winners for the 2006 National Chemistry Week (NCW) Poster Contest and the Chemvention Competition, in which teams must devise an inexpensive solution to a common problem. Both competitions were organized by ACS's Office of Community Activities. For the 2006 NCW contest, K-12 students were asked to design a poster based on the 2006 NCW theme, "Your Home—It's All Built on Chemistry!" First-place winners in each of four grade categories received $200 Amazon.com gift certificates. Secondplace winners each received $100 gift certificates. NCW's overall theme for 2007, which marks the 20th anniversary of the celebration, is "The Many Faces of Chemistry." The winners announced in Chicago are the following:

K-2nd Grade

First place

First place winner in the K-2nd grade category:
Parker King, Virginia Section.
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Second place

Second place winner in the K-2nd category:
Steven Mooradian, Erie Section.
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3rd-4th Grade

First place

First place winner in the 3rd-4th grade category:
Ariana Banijamali, New Haven Section.
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Second place

Second place winner in the 3rd-4th grade category:
Marissa Hohman, Delaware Section.
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5th-8th Grade

First place

First place winner in the 5th-8th grade category:
Serena Chang, Cleveland Section.
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Second place

Second place winner in the 5th-8th grade category:
T.J. DeMatteis, Delaware Section.
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9th-12th Grade

First place

First place winner in the 9th-12th grade category:
Kayleigh Coleman, Virginia Blue Ridge Section.
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Second place

Second place winner in the 9th-12th grade category:
Ritu Raman, New Haven Section.
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For the 2006 Chemvention contest, active ACS student affiliate chapters were challenged to develop a new home-building material or to improve an existing one. Two winners—Northeastern University, Boston, and Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas—received $500 each for their participation and efforts