2024 Conservation Poster Contest Results
Thank you to all the schools, teachers, and especially the students who participated in this year’s National Association of Conservation Districts annual poster contest: May The Forest Be With You Always. We had students representing 61 classrooms and 16 schools, with 580 posters submitted. It was exciting to see so many students engaging with forests, forest ecology, and conservation.
We would also like to thank our three poster contest judges, Allyssa Gregory (District Forester, Maine Forest Service), BJ Dobson (Boothbay-based volunteer), and Rebecca Jacobs (Program Manager, Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District). Judges carefully evaluated the conservation message, visual effectiveness, and originality of each poster to select category winners, category honorable mentions, class winners, and class honorable mentions.
Category Winners and
Category Honorable Mentions
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Category K-1 Overall Winner:
Ashton Bowen, Union Elementary School
Category 2-3 Overall Winner:
Calla Carlucci, Bristol Consolidated School
Category 4-6 Overall Winner:
Ashlynn Tompkins, Warren Community School
Category 4-6 Honorable Mention:
Sophia Chen, Thomaston Grammar School
Congratulations, Category Winners and Category Honorable Mention!
Congratulations to all poster contest award winners!
Below, select winners are featured with their posters and/or the Knox-Lincoln SWCD banner/logo.
Ashlynn Tompkins, Warren Community School, Grades 4-6 First Place Winner
Sophia Chen, Thomaston Grammar School, Category 4-6 Honorable Mention
Calla Carlucci, Bristol Consolidated School, Grades 2-3 First Place Winner
Ashton Bowen, Union Elementary School, Category K-1 First Place Winner
Crosby Grant, Class Winner (Coreysha Stone), Great Salt Bay Community School
Finley Barnes-Vieteu, Center for Teaching & Learning (Angela Lathem-Ballard), Class First Place Winner
Full Results
Including Classroom Winners and Classroom Honorable Mentions
See all selected class winners, class honorable mentions, category winners, and category honorable mentions below. See Explanation of Awards for more information on the judging process and award designations.
Posters are split into three judging categories: Grades K-1, Grades 2-3, and Grades 4-6. Posters are judged on the following criteria: conservation message, visual effectiveness, originality, and universal appeal.
Explanation of Awards
Category Designations
Category Winner: A Category Winner is the best overall poster in a given category. The Category Winner is chosen from the pool of Class First Place Winners in the respective category. Category Winners receive a conservation and education-minded prize and continue to the State Level Conservation Poster Contest.
Category Honorable Mention: A Category Honorable Mention is a poster that deserves special recognition amongst the pool of Class First Place Winners.
Class Designations
Class First Place Winner: Given to a student in a class with a stand-out poster. This award is only given to one student in a given classroom. Class First Place Winners are entered into a pool from which Category Winners and Category Honorable Mentions will be chosen. If a class did not receive a First Place Winner, judges decided that no poster in that class would have been competitive in the pool for Category Winner. An honorable mention would be chosen instead.
Note that some multi-grade classrooms have multiple class first place winners due to their students being in multiple poster contest categories (for example, a Grades 1-2 classroom might have a Class First Place Winner (K-1) and a Class First Place Winner (2-3). Some teachers may also instruct more than one class (for example, multiple science classes) and subsequently may receive a First Place Class Winner for each class taught.
Class Honorable Mention: Given to a student whose poster was competitive but did not win Class First Place Winner. Sometimes given to multiple students in a single classroom.