Local Teams Win Chemagination Regionals!
The 2007 ACS Mid-Adlantic Regional Chemagination
contest was held on Saturday, May 19, 2007 at Ursinus College,
Collegeville, PA. Allene Johnson and Louise Lawter, were the
Chemagination contest coordinators. Chemagination is a contest in which
high school students are asked to imagine that they are living 25 years
in the future and have been invited to write an article for
ChemMatters,
a magazine for high school students that focuses on the role of
chemistry in everyday life. The subject of the article is: “Describe a
recent breakthrough or innovation in chemistry and/or its applications
that has improved the quality of people’s lives today.” The article is
written to fit in one of four categories (either Alternative Energy,
Environment, Medicine/Health, or New Materials.)
Nine teams, totaling twenty-four students, from New
York, North Jersey, Princeton and Trenton local ACS sections competed.
The teams were judged on the quality of their article, their poster
display and their knowledge of the subject. Yingru Zhang and
Subbarao
Mantha from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Deborah Kilmartin from GeoTrans,
Inc generously gave their time to serve as judges. They had the
difficult task of selecting the 1st and 2nd prize winners in each
category among a strong field of contenders!
During the tabulation of the results and selection of
the winners, Mark Ellison of Ursinus College entertained and educated
students, parents and teachers with some memorable chemical
demonstrations including exploding balloons!
Thank you to all who helped make the event a success
including the faculty advisors
Christine D. Iannucci,
Ridgefield Park Junior Senior High School,
Cindy Jaworsky,
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South,
Cheryl Litman,
North Brunswick Township
High School,
Renee Locker and Gerard
Marzigliano,, Division
Avenue High School, Sara
H. McCoy, Collegiate
School and Herbert Weiss,
Locust Valley High School, our judges,
Mark Ellison
and MARM
representatives
Tony Addison, Victor Tortorelli and Eric Williamsen.
SECOND
PLACE WINNERS
Second place winners received a certificate and a
subscription to
ChemMatters.
They were:
Medicine/Health
- “Cancer-Out”, Jai
Cho, Jonathan Ochoa,
Quendrin Molota
Ridgefield Park Junior
Senior High School
Alternate Energy
- “A New Energy Source:
Organics and the Seebeck Effect”,
Tonya Long, Oliver Rich,
Locust Valley High School
Environment
- “The Atmospheric Solution: Solar Powered Planes and CO2 Filters”,
Jack Coyne,
Bernard J. Glover, West Hubbard,
Collegiate School
New Materials
- “3D TV”, Syed Saad,
Ghotra Muskan,
Division Avenue High School
