XPI Student Showcase
Welcome to Xpress Plugged In, our new online gallery of student expressions. Please follow the submission instructions CAREFULLY. New work will be posted every Monday.
-- Nancy Green, editor of XPI
Selections for the Week of 12/27/2010
Spotlight on the Guy Harvey Art Contest
(Part Two: Middle and High School Winners)
Newspaper in Education recently partnered with the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation to bring K-12 students a creative challenge! Students were invited to submit an original piece of artwork or photograph representative of ways to preserve and protect our gulf life, along with a short essay explaining their artwork.
Prizes included the Guy Harvey prints, a limited edition Guy Harvey Save Our Gulf Life framed giclee (value $1,500) and the contest's winning artwork featured on Xpress Plugged In, reproduced as a poster and sold through the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation.
Overall Winner:
Morgan Cowan, 12th grade, East Lake High School, Tarpon Springs
Most Creative Middle School:
Hannah Jenkins, eighth grade, Orange Grove Middle School, Tampa
Most Realistic Middle School:
Christopher Kennington, seventh grade, Seminole Middle School
Most Colorful Middle School:
Grace Hall, seventh grade, Orange Grove Middle School, Tampa
Most Conservation-Minded Middle School:
Channee Bass, seventh grade, Orange Grove Middle School, Tampa