2001 Safety Poster Contest Winners

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2001 Winners of PPL’s Safety Poster Contest Announced

PPL has selected 36 winners from 6,093 entries in this year's Electrical Safety Poster Contest for students in kindergarten through 12^th grade in schools throughout the company's delivery service area.

For this year's contest, a popular part of PPL’s energy education outreach, students created artwork around the theme "Sammy’s Electrical Safe Holidays." Students used crayons, pencils, paints or computer-generated graphics to depict electrical safety messages about any holiday throughout the year.

"Sammy Safety," a smiling triceratops, is PPL’s safety mascot used to spread safety messages among school children. It became the centerpiece of the poster contest in 1986.

The winners are:

First grade:

Tony Castellani (grand prize), Valley View Elementary, Peckville, Pa.; Alissa Steier (1^st place), St. Clare School, Scranton, Pa.; Gregory Lerch (honorable mention), Homeschool, Coopersburg, Pa.

Second grade:

Tori Hartshorn (grand prize), Notre Dame Elementary School, East Stroudsburg, Pa.; Kayla A. Griffith Kalinoski (1^st place), St. Clare School, Scranton, Pa.; Elexa Echeverrid (honorable mention), Notre Dame Elementary School, East Stroudsburg, Pa.

Third grade:

James Moran (grand prize), Marion Catholic School, Scranton, Pa.; Michael DiMaggio (1st place), Pittston Area Primary Center, Pittston, Pa.; Maria Sagliocco (honorable mention), Pittston Area Primary Center, Pittston, Pa.

Fourth grade:

Dylan Gregorio (grand prize), Notre Dame Elementary School, East Stroudsburg, Pa.; Amy Fedin (1^st place), Notre Dame Elementary School, East Stroudsburg, Pa.; Stacy Fallat (honorable mention), Holy Spirit School, Mt. Carmel, Pa.

Fifth grade:

Katie Clayberger (grand prize), Holy Spirit School, Mt. Carmel, Pa.; Elizabeth Keiser (1^st place), Peters ElementarySchool, Slatington, Pa.; Kaleigh Namiotka (honorable mention), Abington Heights Middle School, Clark Summit, Pa.

Sixth grade:

Zachary Doleiden (grand prize), Pocono Mt. Intermediate North, Tobyhanna, Pa.; Jillian Seamon (1^st place), Holy Spirit Academy, Hazleton, Pa.; Ryan Holohan (honorable mention), St. Ambrose, Schuylkill Haven, Pa.

Seventh grade:

Carolynn Marie Velas (grand prize), Homeschool, Quakertown, Pa.; Joshua Frisch, (1^st place), New Cumberland Middle School, New Cumberland, Pa.; Cassandra Metzger (honorable mention), Milton Middle School, Milton, Pa.

Eighth grade:

Thanh Le (grand prize), Mechanicsburg Area Intermediate School, Mechanicsburg, Pa.; Lauren Bailey (1^st place), Mechanicsburg Area Intermediate School, Mechanicsburg, Pa.; Allyssa Boyer (honorable mention), Mechanicsburg Area Intermediate School, Mechanicsburg, Pa.

Ninth Grade:

Blake Bonser (grand prize), Pocono Mountain High School, Swiftwater, Pa.; Sarah Ecklund (1^st place), Bishop Hannan High School, Scranton, Pa.; Miranda Morgan (honorable mention), Bishop Hannan High School, Scranton, Pa.

Grades 10 through 12:

Patricia Savage (grand prize), 10^th grade, Southern Columbia High School, Catawissa, Pa.; Molly Stametz, (1^st place), 11^th grade, Southern Columbia High School, Catawissa, Pa.; Emily DeSilva (honorable mention), 12^th grade, Muncy High School, Muncy, Pa.

Computer graphics, grades 6-8 and grades 9-12:

Philip K. Rogers (grand prize), 8^th grade, Homeschool, Manheim, Pa.; Randy Nolt (1^st place), 8^th grade, Donegal Middle School, Marietta, Pa.; Anthony Kellenberger (honorable mention), 8^th grade, Donegal Middle School, Marietta, Pa.

Joel Thomas (grand prize), 12^th grade, Lancaster County Career & Technology Center, Brownstown, Pa.; Laura Fry (1^st place), 12^th grade, Lancaster County Career & Technology Center, Brownstown, Pa.; David Knowlden (honorable mention), 12^th grade, Muncy High School, Muncy, Pa.

PPL's electrical safety poster contest has attracted thousands of educators and tens of thousands of students in public, private and parochial schools during its 16-year history.

The poster contest began as an outgrowth of PPL’s K-12 energy education curriculum, developed in the late 1970s by the company and a core group of 60 educators from throughout Pennsylvania.

Prizes in the competition are five shares of PPL Corp. stock for grand-prize winners, two shares for first place and one share for honorable mention. And all students who send in artwork receive a personalized Certificate of Appreciation from PPL.

The 12 grand-prize posters will be featured on PPL's 2001 electrical safety poster calendar that is distributed to all participating schools to reinforce electrical safety throughout the new year.

Teachers of grand-prize winners will receive $50 from PPL for instructional materials and supplies. And all teachers will receive a PPL 12-inch electrical safety ruler, which features important tips so they can remind their students to always be stay safe around electrical components.