AIRQUEST Essay Contest: 126 Participants and 9 Winners

As part of the international project “Interreg – Know What You Breathe: Mobilizing Communities for Air Quality in the Black Sea Basin” (AIRQUEST), the Faculty of Hydrometeorology and Ecology of Mechnikov Odesa National University organized a creative essay contest titled:
“Air Pollution and Its Impact on the Environment”.

🧑‍🎓 A total of 126 participants — school and college students — joined the contest from 8 educational institutions in Odesa and the region:

• Odesa Lyceum No. 85
• Private Lyceum “Harmony”
• Mechnikov College
• Velykodalnytskyi Lyceum No. 1
• Kodyma Lyceum No. 1
• Vypasne Lyceum
• College of Computer Technologies of ONU
• Odesa Lyceum No. 84

📜 All participants received certificates, and the winners were awarded diplomas and gifts from Mechnikov ONU and the AIRQUEST team.

🎉 Congratulations to our winners:

• 🥇 Alina Bakhtina, Dmytro Denysenko
• 🥈 Vladyslava Bezsmertna, Dmytro Kuzyak, Oleksandra Kushnir
• 🥉 Evelina Kryzhanovska, Sofia Andriienko, Viktoria Podakova, Romana Sulimova

👏 We thank all participants for their meaningful contributions and creative efforts toward environmental awareness!