Art Contest Winners Announced

Keep Lee County Beautiful has announced the winners of the 35^th annual “Leave The Scene Clean” Art Contest. The picture here is from North Fort Myers High Schooler Mia De La Cruz Matos.

The contest drew hundreds of entries from local students, representing public, private, and home schools in Lee County. Students were asked to visualize a correct environmental action and transfer that mental picture into a work of art. Submitted work was judged on artistic execution and originality as well as environmental theme, such as litter prevention, recycling, community cleanup and protecting the environment.

The four overall winning illustrations will be enlarged and appear on the side of a Lee County Waste Pro truck and printed on reusable tote bags.  The overall winning and honorable mention artwork will be on display at Fort Myers Public Works/Community Development building during April in honor of Earth month.

Keep Lee County Beautiful will host an award reception on April 1^st from 5pm-7pm at the Edison & Ford Winter Estates Caretaker’s House at which time the artwork will be exhibited, and the winners will receive their awards.

The reusable tote bags will be released in the Fall and can be had for a $5 donation each and will be available through participating Lee County Schools, who retain all proceeds collected with the funds being used to support on campus environmental projects.

The four overall First Place Winners and their schools are:
Grade K-3 – Antonella DaRosa – St. Francis Xavier
Grade 4-6 – Olivia Baker – Oasis Middle School
Grade 7-9 – Mia De La Cruz Matos – North Fort Myers High School
Grade 10-12 –Jennifer Cedeno – Dunbar High School

The Honorable Mention winners and their schools are:
Grade K-3 
Elena Aristizabal – St. Francis Xavier
Dailyn Dambrose – St. Francis Xavier
Diego Guzman Lopez – Mirror Lakes Elementary

Grade 4-6           
Mara Burnside – St. Francis Xavier
Sadie Siggs – Orangewood Elementary
Sara Aristizabal – St. Francis Xavier

Grade 7-9    
Julianna White – Harns Marsh Middle School
Akeiyah Givens – Trafalgar Middle School
Olivia Kulchawick – Oasis Middle School

Grade 10-12
Alex Davis – Dunbar High School
Brody Ellis – Cypress Lake High School
Emma Corbin – Cypress Lake High School