Congratulations NEOSEF Award Winners!

Every year, our section sponsors Special Awards to recognize students with excellent chemistry-related projects at the Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering (NEOSEF) fair. This year, 16 volunteers from a variety of chemistry backgrounds and professions judged the student’s posters and selected the following winners:

CHM 7-8 category:

Ella Milford from St Raphael Elementary “Sugary Sweet Science: What’s in your Favorite Starbucks Drink?

Nadine Khanfar from UC School “From Sugar to Bubbles: Yeast in Action”

Oliver Johansson from University School ”Clear Differences: The Impact of Solvent Selection on Crystal Clarity”

Nabil Albeiroti from UC School “From Nut to Flame: Measuring Energy Release”

CHM 9-8 Category:

Sullivan Meneghetti from St. Edward High “Creating Sustainable Iron-producing Aqueous Electrolysis without using Lithium”

Aneesa Odetallah from Strongsville High “Which Variables are Most Influential in Accelerating the Deterioration of Fingerprint Evidence”

ENV-9-10 Category:

Archishman Dey from Solon High “Mapping the Air we Breathe: The First National PM 2.5 Dataset Using Physics-ML and PBAT Calibration”

ENV 11-12 Category:

Asal Mohammadi from Hawen Upper “Spray Now, Shake Later; The Paradox of Pesticide Exposure and Parkinson’s Disease”

The winners were invited to our Education Night to present their poster and receive their award. 7 our of the 8 winners attended our Education Night on April 22, 2026, which, combined with a Scanning Electron Microscope hands-on demo, made for a great evening!  Congratulations to our NEOSEF winners!