Eligibility
BEST Medicine is open to middle and high school students in any public, private, parochial or home school in Northeast Ohio including Ashland, Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga, Holmes, Huron, Lake, Lorain, Mahoning, Medina, Portage, Richland, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, Tuscarawas and Wayne counties.
A maximum of 15 projects can be entered from any high school, and a maximum of 12 projects can be submitted from any middle school. A student may enter BEST Medicine as an independent if his/her school does not conduct a school-wide science fair, but they must have submitted at least one previous science fair project and the limits per school still apply. If your school does not conduct a science fair, please contact the email below, and we can work with you to coordinate through the Akron Public Schools science fair.
Students may only submit one project to BEST Medicine. Students cannot resubmit a previous year’s project unless it has been substantially expanded and re-developed.
Group projects are accepted at BEST Medicine.
All projects at BEST Medicine are subject to the review of the Scientific Review Committee (SRC). Projects which do not adhere to correct scientific principles or which involve inadequate protection of human or animal subjects may be disqualified. Students can assume approval of their project unless they are contacted by BEST Medicine.
For further questions as to your eligibility, please email Rita Filer at RFiler@abiakron.org.
Awards
Thanks to a generous donation by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the 2012 BEST Medicine Engineering Fair top prize will win a spot in the Intel ISEF Science Fair.
2012 BEST Medicine Awards
Congratulations "BEST Medicine" Engineering Fair Award Winners!
Category Awards
CATEGORY AWARDS
Biomaterials/Polymer Medicine (9 - 12)
GOLD Gurbani Kaur, Hathaway Brown School
SILVER Vincenzo Volpe, St. Vincent - St. Mary High School
BRONZE John Friess, St. Vincent - St. Mary High School
Clinical Trials (7 - 8)
GOLD Vinayak D. Kurup, Birchwood School
SILVER Melissa Chi & Michaela Giltner (TEAM 9), St. Hilary School
BRONZE John Mhanna, St. Francis of Assisi
Devices for Physically Impaired (Grade 6)
GOLD Emily Brazytis, Our Lady of the Lake
SILVER Ashley Champa, Saint John of the Cross
BRONZE Reaghan Zele, Our Lady of the Lake
Health/Medicine (7 - 8)
GOLD Rachel Caprini, Solon Middle School
SILVER Paarth Sharma, Incarnate Word Academy
BRONZE Lily Sargent, St. Joseph School
Health/Medicine (9 - 12)
GOLD Logan O'Keefe & Jamie Shultz (TEAM 13), Hudson High School
SILVER Ingrid Zippe, Hathaway Brown School
BRONZE Danielle Dejak, Beaumont School
Health/Medicine (Grade 6)
GOLD Jackson Tankersley, National Inventors Hall of Fame STEM School
SILVER Robby Petrunic, Saint John of the Cross
BRONZE Jonathan Pomnean, Ss. Robert and William Catholic School
Medical Device Design (Grade 6)
GOLD Alia Basar, Saint John of the Cross
SILVER Jonah Brokamp, Saint John of the Cross
BRONZE Brian Mingus & Ojas Nadkarni (TEAM 15), Menlo Park Academy
NEOMED Musculoskeletal (7 - 8)
GOLD Swathi Srinivasan, Beachwood Middle School
SILVER Amogh Iyer, Solon Middle School
BRONZE Amanda Trump, Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts
NEOMED Musculoskeletal (9 - 12)
GOLD Joseph Anand & Sam Elliot (TEAM 4), Anand Homeschool Academy
SILVER Anisha Basu, Hudson High School
BRONZE Iulia Barbur, Hudson High School
NEOMED Musculoskeletal (Grade 6)
GOLD Mar Lin & Camryn Woodley (TEAM 12), National Inventors Hall of Fame STEM School
SILVER Anthony Semerano, Saint John of the Cross
BRONZE Jessica Sanson, Our Lady of the Lake
Sensors /Electronics (9 - 12)
GOLD Alice Catanzaro, Hathaway Brown School
SILVER William Jack, Hudson High School
BRONZE Krish Shah, Westlake High School
Soft/Flexible Materials (6 - 7)
GOLD Thomas Searle, National Inventors Hall of Fame STEM School
SILVER Julie Trevarthen, Ss. Robert and William Catholic School
BRONZE Taylor Molson, Saint John of the Cross
Value-driven Engineering (7 - 8)
GOLD Harrison Fisher, Sonny Kim & Edward Matyja (TEAM 10), Stanton Middle School
SILVER David Herr, Litchfield Middle School
BRONZE Daniel Hebert, National Inventors Hall of Fame STEM School
Value-driven Engineering (9 - 12)
GOLD Sasha Kovalchick, St. Vincent - St. Mary High School
SILVER Shivani Bafna, Solon High School
BRONZE Rachel Anand, Anand Homeschool Academy
Value-driven Engineering (Grade 6)
GOLD Daniel Anand, Anand Homeschool Academy
SILVER Madison Anderson, National Inventors Hall of Fame STEM School
BRONZE Sarah Petersen, Saint John of the Cross
Grand Prizes
Women in High Places $2k internship at ABIA Alex Pianalto
$2k internship at ABIA Sasha Kovalchick
UA $1k scholarship Danielle Dejak
UA $1k scholarship Gurbani Kaur
BDM Foundation trip to Intel William Jack
Special Awards
LRI & Plastics News Awards (Individual)
6th Grade
Top prize $75 – BME Alia Basar
Second prize $50 - Plastics News Daniel Anand
Third prize $25 - BME Emily Brazytis
7-10th grade
Top prize $75 – BME Vinayak D. Kurup
Second prize $50 - Plastics News Anne O'Brien
Third prize 25 - BME Rachel Anand
Group Prizes
Top 9-12 group – $100 LRI Logan O'Keefe & Jamie Shultz (TEAM 13)
Top 6-8 group – $100 LRI Harrison Fisher, Sonny Kim & Edward Matyja (TEAM 10)
Tech Equipment Awards
6th grade Mar Lin & Camryn Woodley (TEAM 12)
7th grade David Herr
8th grade Rachel Caprini
9th grade Joseph Anand & Sam Elliot (TEAM 4)
10th grade Shivani Bafna
11th grade Ingrid Zippe
12th grade Angela Blatz
Chemistry Prizes
Chemical Society 6-8 grade - $50 John Mhanna
Chemical Society 9-12 grade - $50 Alice Catanzaro
Denise Richardson Trishna Desai
ZIN (Judge - Shaun Davis)
$50 – best use of KNEX Harrison Fisher, Sonny Kim & Edward Matyja (TEAM 10)
$50 – best use of KNEX Sara Darowich
$50 – best presentation Erika Klek
$50 – best presentation Amanda Trump
Best School St. John of the Cross
Honorable Mention
Alati, DeAirre
Alniemi, Abrar
Alvarez, Benito
Anand, Daniel
Anand, Joseph
Anand, Rachel
Anderson, Madison
Ashdown, Rose
Bafna, Shivani
Baker, Emily
Barbur, Iulia
Basar, Alia
Basu, Anisha
Bilich, Jacob
Blase, Schenley
Blatz, Angela
Brazytis, Emily
Bretz, Meghan
Brokamp, Jonah
Brown, Kevin
Buse, Fred
Caprini, Rachel
Catanzaro, Alice
Champa, Ashley
Chari, Priyakrit
Chi, Melissa
Clemens, Samson
Crawford, Kelsey
Cundiff, Maya
Danda, Avinash
Darowich, Sara
Dejak, Danielle
Desai, Trishna
Dies, Matthew
Elliot, Sam
Engels, Katherine
Estacio, Neil Patrick
Fink, Morgan Christina
Fisher, Harrison
Friess, John
Frohring, Kaylee
Furlan, Antonia
Gagnon, Patrick
Gibbons, Jack
Giles, John
Giltner, Michaela
Guo, Joyce
Hankins, Katie
Hebert, Daniel
Herr, David
Heyl, Megan
Hongosh, Anna
Hurley, John
Iyer, Amogh
Jack, William
Jerme, Christopher
Johnson, Emily
Johnson, Kate
Jones, Brooke
Kaur, Gurbani
Kim, Sonny
Kime, Winnifred
King, Julia
Klek, Erika
Kless, Sean
Kosco, Sam
Kovalchick, Sasha
Kurup, Vinayak D
Leary, Nicholas
Leksan, Jacob
Lin, Mar
Majc, Natalie
Majumdar, Ronit
Mal-Sarkar, Tatini
Matecun, Chase
Matyja, Edward
Mazur, Alexander
McGhee-Haggins, Evan
Mhanna, John
Mingus, Brian
Molson, Taylor
Nadkarni, Ojas
Neal, Katelyn
Neill, Nicholas
O’Brien, Anne
O’Keefe, Logan
Owens, Stephen
Ozgur, Zeyd
Perrotti, Paul
Petersen, Sarah
Petrich, Adam
Petrunic, Robby
Pianalto, Alex
Pomnean, Jonathan
Quinlan, Dana
Ranallo, Robert
Rich, Sean
Rich, Jacob
Roland, Claire
Rosace, Lucia
Sanson, Jessica
Sargent, Lily
Searle, Thomas
Semerano, Anthony
Shah, Krish
Shultz, Jamie
Srinivasan, Swathi
Stallworth, Kayla
Stamer, Julianne
Stessney, Kaitlin
Tankersley, Jackson
Tindel, Arielle
Trevarthen, Julie
Trump, Amanda
Turner, Selena
Volpe, Vincenzo
Weathers, Isaiah
Williams, Terynn
Woodley, Camryn
Workman, Zachary
Zele, Reaghan
Zippe, Ingrid