2021 ACS Chemists Celebrate Earth Week Poem Contest – Results

2021 CCEW Illustrated Poem Contest – Results

2021 Earth Week Poem Contest Winners - 
Reducing Our Footprint with Chemistry

As part of the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) 2021 Chemists Celebrate 
Earth Week (CCEW) celebration, the Pittsburgh Section ACS sponsored an 
illustrated poem contest for students in grades K-12.  Students could pick 
topics related to the 2021 CCED theme “Reducing Our Footprint with 
Chemistry.” Poems could be any style (free verse, limerick, haiku, etc.). 
Entries were judged based upon relevance to and incorporation of the theme, 
word choice and imagery, colorful artwork, adherence to poem style, originality 
and  creativity, and overall presentation. 

Each 1st place winning entry will receive a check for $50 and their winning 
poem was entered into the national ACS CCEW poetry contest sponsored 
by the ACS’s Committee on Community Activities. National ACS CCEW 
poetry contest winners will be announced the week of June 1, 2021. 

And the winners of the 2021 Pittsburgh Section ACS’s CCEW poem contest:

K-2nd Grade
Shri A. (2nd Grade),  Bradford Woods Elementary School 

3^rd-5^th Grade
Efua K. (5^th Grade), Peebles Elementary School

6th-8th Grade
Aiden Q. (7^th Grade), Linton Middle School

9^th-12^th Grade
Andrea K. (12^th Grade), Ringgold High School

Congratulations to all our regional contest winners and good luck in the
national ACS CCEW poem contest.

Michael Mautino
CCEW Coordinator