NCW Poster Winners Announced

At the spring national meeting in Chicago, members of the American Chemical Society Committee on Community Activities selected winners for the 2006 National Chemistry Week (NCW) Poster Contest and the Chemvention Competition, in which teams must devise an inexpensive solution to a common problem. Both competitions were organized by ACS's Office of Community Activities. For the 2006 NCW contest, K-12 students were asked to design a poster based on the 2006 NCW theme, "Your Home—It's All Built on Chemistry!" First-place winners in each of four grade categories received $200 Amazon.com gift certificates. Secondplace winners each received $100 gift certificates. NCW's overall theme for 2007, which marks the 20th anniversary of the celebration, is "The Many Faces of Chemistry." The winners announced in Chicago are the following: