2025 Strike-a-Spark Award Winners

Creative Works

  • 1st Place - Nikkisha Thompson, "Bringing Costume Design to Life:  With Practice Comes Creativity!"
  • 2nd Place - Hope Yeardie, "Pen and Paper"

 

Posters—Morning Session

  • 1st Place - Tie
    • Benjamin Price, "Solvothermal Synthesis and Deposition of Mesoporous HKUST MOF and its Adsorption of Aqueous Crystal Violet"
    • Prashmi Shah, "The Oral Microbiome and Dental Hygiene: Assessing the Impact of Hygiene Habits on Microbiome Composition"
  • 3rd Place - Dominic Santia, "Photochromic and Thermochromic Anils in Polymer Films"

 

Posters—Afternoon Session

  • 1st Place - Zachary M. Seaman, "Fluorescent Imidazopyridines: Synthesis and Photophysical Analysis"
  • 2nd Place - Braden Staats, "Comparing Generalized Anxiety Disorder to the Oral Microbiome"
  • 3rd Place - Hollie Hiles, "Biomining Abandoned Mine Drainage to Recover Lanthanum"
  • Honorable Mention
    • Sarah Stygler, "The Effects of Alprazolam on Planarian Regeneration"
    • Nicholas Climes, "Chemical Composition of Organic PM2.5 from Biomass Burning"

 

Outstanding Achievement Award

  • Krystal Anderson, Maya Anderson, Ariel Schurg, Haj Abdullah, Faith Mukora, Arsyn Csencsics, "Retro Bites:  A 90s Diner-Themed Art Gallery with Interactive Stations"