The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) recognized local students who won the seventh annual Earth Day art contest at a special award ceremony on April 22 at Cashman Middle School.
The annual art contest sponsored by the RTC, Vector Media and Clark County School District, invited middle and high school students to submit artwork promoting the RTC’s “quicker, cleaner, greener” sustainability initiative. The students were encouraged to design their artwork with images of transit, bicycling, walking or carpooling.
More than 140 students from schools across the valley participated in this year’s contest and nearly 400 people voted in the online poll to select the grand prize winners from the top 10 finalists. At the ceremony, RTC recognized the top two winners: 8th grade student Emily Tung and 7th grade student Tyler Stevens at Cashman Middle School. Their artwork will be displayed on the outside of a 40-foot RTC transit vehicle and will travel the Las Vegas Valley streets for up to one year.
The runners up included: Jose Cervantes, Anthony Earl, Heather Macias-Padron, Delal Mohamed and Armando Avila of Cashman Middle School; Benjamin Davis and Fabian Soriano of Roy Martin Middle School; and Amanda Lok of Nevada State High School. The artwork of the runners up will also be displayed inside RTC transit vehicles throughout the valley.
