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ACS Community Activities Contest: National Chemistry Week 2009 Poster Contest Winners Clinton Harris Office of Community Activities, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. 20036
[email protected] The winners of the annual National Chemistry Week (NCW) poster contest were announced on November 20, 2009. The 2009 theme, Chemistry: It is Elemental!, focused on the 140th anniversary of
the periodic table of the elements. Students in grades from kindergarten through 12 were invited to display their artistic talents to highlight various uses of the elements and the roles they play in our lives.
Figure 1. An artwork sampling of the poster contest winners for National Chemistry Week 2009 on the theme Chemistry: It is Elemental.
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ACS local sections hosted a poster contest for their communities, then sent in their winning poster entries for each of four grade categories: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. This year, ACS local sections submitted 61 entries. The Committee on Community Activities judged the entries, choosing one first- and one second-place winner from the four grade-level categories. Each first-place winner received an award of $100, and secondplace winners were each given $50. The teachers of the winning
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students received letters of recognition for their continuing guidance of their students. Four winning posters are featured in Figure 1; to see all of the winning entries, go to http://www. acs.org/ (accessed Jan 2010) and search on “National Chemistry Week 2009 Poster Contest Winners”. The NCW 2010 theme is: Behind the Scenes with Chemistry! Information about 2010 contests will be available in June 2010 at http://www.acs.org/ncw (accessed Jan 2010).
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