Four Habersham elementary schoolers presented their award-winning school bus safety art to the school board and their community on Monday.
The pieces were entries into the National Association of Pupil Transportation’s annual school bus safety poster contest. Students compete at the school, state and national level for the grand prize: the best poster in each division becomes the promotional poster for the NAPT.
The competition is divided into three divisions: First Division, which covers grades K-2, Second Division, which covers grades 3-5 and Third Division, grades 6-8.
This year’s school-level winners include Clarkesville Elementary second grader Britton Franklin, who won first place in the first division of the competition. In the second division, Sabrina Blackburn, a Clarkesville Elementary fifth grader, won first place, Glori Tyler, a fourth grader from Clarkesville Elementary, took second and Caroline Sutton, a Level Grove Elementary fifth grader, took home third place.
Walker was impressed with the creativity and talent with the student submissions this year, and says she loves seeing the student’s ideas and artwork each year.
“My favorite part is just sitting down on the floor going through the different posters we get, and trying to determine— ‘oh my gosh, we’ve got to come up with which ones are going to the finalists,'” says Habersham County Schools Transportation Director Stephanie Walker. “Sometimes that’s hard, we get some really, really cute ones. They do a great job every year.”
