Fifth-Graders Recognized for Environmental
Creativity
More than 42,000 Illinois students
took part in the Illinois EPA's ninth annual environmental
education and stewardship program.
| The Illinois EPA
recently completed its ninth annual environmental
education and stewardship program. More than 42,000
fifth-grade students attending 703 public and private
Illinois schools participated. The event focuses on
environmental issues and asks the students to create
posters, poems or prose illustrating the concepts they
have studied. Each school may submit one entry in each
category for judging. Fifty finalists are selected and
all receive certificates and ribbons recognizing their
achievements. |
![[Finalists]](creativity.jpg) Finalists
in the recent "The Air We Breathe" poster,
prose and poetry competition included, from left, Amy
Davis, Witt; Katie Simon (for her sister Emily), Downers
Grove; Adam Beins (kneeling), Somonauk; Celia Vineyard,
LeRoy; and Erin Carey, Evergreen Park.
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