Top co-op student wins Women of the Year award

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Sarah Odinotski (BASc '22, nanotechnology engineering), Engineering's 2021 Co-op Student of the Year, was recently named a winner in the Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest Rogers Women of Year Awards for 2022.

Odinoski took the top award in the Young Adult Category. 

While she was an undergraduate student, Odinotski worked with Mahla Poudineh, an electrical and computer engineering professor, to develop a hydrogel-based microneedle biosensor for pH measurement.

Her fourth-year design project team placed second in this year's Capstone Design Competition and went on to win $10,000 in the Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards for its biomedical device.

See Nanotechnology Engineering Alumnus wins Rogers Woman of the Year Award for the complete story.