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Student Posters

Check out the 2025 Student Poster Submissions, here. 

 

Congratulations to the 2025 Student Poster Contest Winners:

Graduate Winner - Cayden Lloyd, Event-driven shifts in river and reservoir sediment sources: Cottonwood River and John Redmond Reservoir, USA

Graduate Runner-up – Kelechi Igwe, Closing the Water Budget Gap: Leveraging Satellite-Based Insights for Accurate Irrigation Water-Use Estimation Across Western U.S

Graduate 2nd Runner-up - Robert Sholl, Spatio-temporal Models for Optimizing Best Management Practices 

Cayden Lloyd, Grad WinnerKelechi Igwe, Grad Runner upRobert Sholl, Grad Second Runner up

 

Undergrad Winner - Prabhleen Kaur, Synthesis of ABA triblock copolymers via RAFT polymerization for water purification membranes

Undergrad Runner-up - Gwenyth VanLeeuwen, Onsite Microplastic Testing Device for Kansas Water

Undergrad 2nd Runner-up - Charlie Gumienny, Potential of Eggshell Nanoparticles as a Natural Pesticide Against the Red Flour Beetle  

 Charlie Gumienny, Undergraduate 2nd Runner Up

 

The Student Poster Contest is currently closed. It will open in fall of 2026. 

Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit abstracts on their water-related research to be presented at the annual Governor's Water Conference.

The conference will have presentation/sessions on: Drought/Flooding, Groundwater Issues, Water Utility Challenges, Sedimentation, Water Quality and many other items of interest. Any research that involves water quantity, quality or water education is eligible. In addition to an abstract, students are required to submit a 3-5 minute, pre-recorded, lightening presentation on their project/poster. The posters will be displayed the morning of Thursday, November 13 in front hallway at the Hilton Garden Inn.  

Student Poster Awards

  • Student project posters will be evaluated for the Governor’s Outstanding Graduate or Undergraduate awards (a nice award to add to your resume).
  • Six cash awards will be given - top graduate ($250), top undergraduate ($250), and two 1st place runners-up ($125), and two 2nd place runner-ups ($75).
  • Announcement of the award winners will be made at the conference.
  • Students must register for the conference at the student rate of $40 for a Single Day or $60 for Both Day of the conference.

 Student Poster Deadlines:

  • The student poster contest is closed. It will open fall of 2026. Submission materials include: abstracts (no more than 250 words) and PDF poster. In addition, a 3-5-minute video recording of a lightning presentation of your research and poster shall be submitted (preferred video format is .MP4).

Poster Board Display Board Size: 32” x 40” - posters up to 36” x 48” will fit the display boards.

 

Additional Information

For more poster information or to register for the conference, please contact:
Susan Metzger, Kansas State University, smetzger@ksu.edu
Kirk Tjelmeland, Kansas Water Office, kirk.tjelmeland@ks.gov

 

Past Poster Submissions: