Melissa Meighan, an East Allegheny High School student in Pittsburgh, won a series of awards for her project testing air quality at playgrounds in North Versailles, Wilmerding and Wilkesburg in Allegheny County.

The project intended to prove that air pollutants accumulate more in winter months than during other times of the year. Her results showed that exactly the opposite was true.

Meighan won awards for her work from the Allegheny County Department of Health, Wheelabrator Air Pollution Control, Inc., the William W. Mullins Environmental Advocacy Award and first and second place awards at the local and regional Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science competitions.

Meighan also presented her work at the Air Congress sponsored by the Group Against Smog and Pollution at Carnegie Mellon University.

NewsClip: North Versailles Teen Wins Awards for Air Pollution Experiments

7/15/2005