Outreach in the K-12 and college-level poster contests

Students from Kindergarten through 12th grade (public, private, home schooled) were invited to participate in the K-12 poster contest, as a regular feature of our Conference.  All posters, photos, and videos must be original artworks that creatively depict the importance of clean water around the world.

A student walks across the big stage to receive his prize for the K-12 Clean Water Poster Contest.

Winner in the K-2nd Grade Category include the following:

   First Place ($100 gift certificate) - Emersyn Raney. Emersyn is a first-grader from McKinley Elementary School (Norman).

Winners in the 3rd-5th Grade Category include the following:

   First Place ($100 gift certificate) - Alnis Demir 

   Second Place ($50 gift certificate) - Jasper Muehring

   Third Place ($25 gift certificate) - Maggie Ball
Alnis, Jasper, and Maggie are all 5th graders from Terra Verde Discovery School (Norman).  Their teacher is Ms. Angela Reed.

The posters submitted were on display during the Conference.

For the first time ever, we also hosted an undergraduate / graduate academic poster contest. Students were judged based on their poster's overall appearance and content. They were also given a chance to do a 5-minute "elevator talk" that explained their research to the four judges.

Participants discuss student academic research during the poster session.

Undergraduate student winners:

   1st ($100) - Autumn Brown (Clemson University)

   2nd ($75) - Jorge Rodriguez (El Bosque University, Colombia)

   3rd ($50) - Amanda Elmendorf (University of Oklahoma)

 

Graduate student winners:

   1st ($100) - Rosie Wallace (Southern Methodist University)

   2nd ($75) - Philip Deal (University of Oklahoma)

   3rd ($50) - Pinky Taneja (NEERI, India)

Undergraduate poster winners are announced at the Conference closing.