And The Winner Is:
Congratulations to Alison Bick of Short Hills, N.J.
Alison was named the U.S.
winner of the 2011 Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP)—the most
prestigious international competition for water-related research—during
a ceremony this past weekend at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Ill.
Bick’s project, “Development and Evaluation of a Microfluidic Co-Flow
Device to Determine Water-Quality”, was selected from more than 40 state
SJWP winners at the national competition held in Chicago from June
23-25.
IWEA sponsored student, Nishith Reddy of Naperville,
Ill., was one of the five finalists and received a $1000.00 award.
Competition Pictures
Below are a few pictures from the 2011 Chicago SJWP Competition
Click
here to see more competition pictures.
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Committee Chair:
Chuck Corley
Illinois EPA
4302 North Main St.
Rockford, IL 61103
(815) 987-7760
(815) 987-7005 Fax
charles.corley@illinois.gov |
Committee Description
Responsible for organizing local arrangements for the 2011
Stockholm Junior Water Prize Competition. This competition is sponsored
by the Water Environment Federation and hosted by the IWEA. It is
scheduled for June 23 - 25, 2011 at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago.
Click here
for detailed information about the Stockholm Junior Water Prize
Competition.
Click here to view
IWEA's proposal for hosting the 2011 SJWP Competition.
Sponsorships Opportunities
Public, private, non-profit and other organizations can help support the
2011 Stockholm Junior Water Prize Competition. Our
Sponsorship
Brochure lists these partnering opportunities. The
Sponsor Fact Sheet
provides even more information regarding the benefits of supporting the
competition.
Information for Volunteers
The SJWP Competition requires the united efforts of many
volunteers. The Volunteer Brochure lists opportunities for how IWEA members can
help.
Meeting Minutes
Keep up with SJWP by reviewing the meeting minutes.
- August 4,
2010 meeting minutes
- September 22, 2010 meeting minutes
- October
14, 2010 meeting minutes
-
December 15, 2010 meeting minutes
- January
19, 2011 meeting minutes
- February
17, 2011 meeting minutes
- March
24, 2011 meeting minutes
- April
20, 2011 meeting minutes
- May 25,
2001 meeting minutes
- June 15,
2011 meeting minutes
Click here
to access November 17, 2010 meeting handouts.
Draft Schedule of Events
Click here
to access the Draft Schedule of Events for Chicago SJWP Competition.
SJWP Payment Requests
Committee members can use the
SJWP Payment Request
Form to request reimbursements for expenses.
2010 SJWP Competition in St. Louis
Click here
to see pictures from the 2010 United States Competition. The
winner,
Rebecca Ye of Bangor, Maine, represented the USA at the international
competition in Stockholm, Sweden September 5 - 11, 2010. Her research
proposed a technique to combine the sciences of microbiology and
nanotechnology to create a biosensor capable of rapid identification
strains of pathogenic bacteria E. Coli.