EPA News Release (Mid-Atlantic Region): Two Philadelphia Students Win EPA Earth Day Poster Contest

 

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Two Philadelphia Students Win EPA Earth Day Poster Contest

 

            (PHILADELPHIA – May 6, 2010) – Two Philadelphia students were among the winners of an Earth Day poster contest sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency mid-Atlantic region and the Philadelphia Zoo.

 

Vasiliki Dinoulis, a seventh-grader at St. Laurentis School, took honors in the “Protected Habitat/Endangered Species” category for students in grades six through eight.

 

Ella Schrand, a 10^th-grader at the C.W. Henry School, took honors in the “Protect Habitat/Endangered Species”  category for grades three through five.  

 

The winning posters can be viewed on the EPA website at http://www.epa.gov/region03/ee/posters2010/ .

 

The contest was for students in kindergarten through grade 12 in EPA’s mid-Atlantic region, which includes Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.  Students submitted hand-created drawings in three categories. Winning entries and others were displayed at the Philadelphia Zoo for EPA’s 40^th anniversary Earth Day celebration.  Many posters continue to be displayed at the EPA’s Public Information Center in Philadelphia.   

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