STEMM Hawks Garners Accolades at NEOSEF; Junior Named Grand Prize Winner
Twelve Upper School Hawks did a stellar job representing Hawken School’s STEMM Program at last night’s 71st Annual Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair (NEOSEF), where students presented their projects to esteemed experts in their respective STEM fields. Our Hawken representatives brought home prizes in Biology, Chemistry, Health-Medicine, and Engineering, as well as multiple prizes in 13 Professional Award categories, and a total of $2000 in cash prizes.
Special congratulations go to junior Nathan Kalhan, who was named a Grand Prize winner and will be traveling to Regeneron’s International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles, CA in May!
See below for other accolades earned by our STEMM Hawks.
Zechary Cao ‘25
- Honorable Mention, 11th-12th grade, Biology
- Society for In Vitro Biology – 11th grade student with outstanding research in plant or animal in vitro biology
Brielle Collins ‘25
- Cleveland Clinic, Mind-Body Medicine – Outstanding project
Grey Hudak ‘24
- Association for Women Geoscientists – Outstanding student with project in geosciences
- Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park – Best project in Environmental Science
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) – Project that emphasizes NOAA’s mission of Science Service and Stewardship
Anjali Jawa ‘24
- 2nd Place, 11th -12th grade, Biology
- Cleveland Clinic, Department of Neurosciences – Outstanding Project
- Cleveland Clinic, Lerner College of Medicine – Outstanding Project
Nathan Kalhan ‘25 (aforementioned Grand Prize Winner with a qualification to Regeneron’s International Science and Engineering Fair)
- 1st Place, 11th-12th grade, Chemistry
- William R. Sweet Award for Chemistry – Outstanding project in chemistry
- Grand Prize Winner, 9th-12th grade, for his work on the Delivery of Nitric Oxide (NO) in relation to Diabetes Mellitus
Chloe Leng ‘25
- 3rd Place, 11th-12th grade, Health-Medicine
- Cleveland Clinic, Lerner College of Medicine – Outstanding Project
Delicia Liao ‘25
- 3rd Place, 11th-12th grade, Biology
Sarah Liu ‘25
- 2nd Place, 11th-12th grade, Health-Medicine
- Cleveland Clinic, Department of Biomedical Engineering – Outstanding Project
Manan Raina ‘25
- 3rd Place, 11th-12th grade, Health-Medicine
Aiden Tian ‘25
- 2nd Place, 11th-12th grade, Engineering
- Parker Hannifin Corporation – Project showing good use of scientific method
- Battery Innovation Center – Project related to energy production, storage, transport and sustainability
Maia Tritt ‘25
- 2nd Place, 11th-12th grade, Chemistry
- American Chemical Society – Cleveland Section for showing clear understanding of data, methods, and interpretation of results in chemistry
- Battery Innovation Center – Projects related to energy, production, storage, transport and sustainability
- NEOSEF Board of Directors Sam Brooks Award
Daniel Xu ‘25
- 3rd place, 11th-12th grade, Biology
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Mastery School of Hawken, 11025 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106
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