Introducing the newest crop of top notch talent primed to turn the design world on edge. From left to right, this year's Mideast Regional School Merit Award Winners:

Bill Bernstein - Carnegie Mellon
Sugandh Goel - Columbus College of Art & Design
Mark Spoelhof - Kendall College of Art & Design
Kirsten Climer - University of Michigan
Sun-Jan Huang - The Ohio State Univerity
Tony Trentacosti - College for Creative Studies
Ben Purrenhage - Western Michigan University
Brandon Lynne - University of Cincinnati
Michel Alvarez - Cleveland Institute of Art

NOTE - I haven't recieved the contact info from of all the Merit Award Winners yet, I'll update them as they come in...