RS1 Water Awareness Poster Contest winners
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Now we'll go to RS1.
All right. Um can if you are here for the annual water awareness poster contest, and there should be a couple of you in the audience, please come up and uh to the podium.
We'd be singing the song We Other Champions when we're done.
Uh I see one of the recipients is um the the mother is my daughter's or my son's art teacher, Ms. Hibbs High. So it must run in the family.
Okay.
We'll let 'em all up. There's a way. Keep coming up. I wonder
if you
can't.
Make sure make sure the kids
get up here in front
of the easy.
Bring the little kids, the special ones. Up up way in the front.
Put 'em in the the front of the desk. So come on up in front of the desk. Yep.
Here.
Right here, fellas. Stand right there in front of that desk. There you go.
Right there.
That's good. Right there.
Yeah, right there.
But you gotta you gotta hold
it the other way. You've got it correctly. There you go. Perfect.
Wonderful. Oh wait, let her in real quick, this letter? There you go. Perfect. All
right.
So I'm gonna go ahead and read the resolution first.
Resolution 26-260 resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, recognizing and commending Pasco County Elementary students receiving first place for their respective grade levels in the 17th annual Water Awareness Poster Contest. Whereas clean, safe, and sustainable water resources are vital to Pasco County's economy, environment, and its citizens, and whereas the steps we can take to protect and preserve our water through
educational partnerships and positive actions are encouraged throughout Pasco County. ANRAS, the Water Awareness Poster Contest was developed jointly by Pasco County Utilities and the Florida Governmental Utilities Authority, FGUA, with the guidance of Pasco County School Board to champion water conservation education. NRAS students are given the opportunity with the assistance of dedicated Pasco County School teachers to explore STEAM, science, technology, engineering, and the industry. art and mathematics
based teaching materials that expand their knowledge of water-related topics through artistic expression. And REST this year 1,300 1,03 posters were submitted With twenty-three thousand three hundred and forty-three entries submitted from Pasco County Elementary Schools since the program's inception in 2010. ANRAS winning posters were selected by a judging panel that included representatives from Pasco County Utilities and the F FG UA
and community sponsors. ANRAS the posters chosen displayed exceptional artistic merit, creativity, And clarity of message and is representative of students at various levels of learning from kindergarten to fifth grade. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida. The said board hereby thanks each participating student and teachers for their dedication in promoting water awareness through Pasco County and congratulates first place recipients Harper Matthews, Hunter. Pipps,
Emma Chirinos. Patricia Grace Wells, Ezraan Rabbi, and Adrika Subati for their outstanding achievement, done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting the 16th day of June 2026.
Second.
All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Commissioner Yeager.
Wow guys, those are absolutely beautiful and congratulations. I see each of you did something very different and I love all the colors you used. I'm gonna ask each of you to tell me a little bit about your poster, okay? All right, in the pink. You start first if someone can help her lower the mic.
Do not.
And just say your name, what school you're from, and then just tell me a little bit about your poster.
My name is Harper Matthews and my school is Athenian Academy.
And tell us a little bit about your poster, honey.
Why is why is saving
water for water for the
right? And Saving water is important because the dolphins need water to survive.
That's true. Yes. We love them.
Thank
you
so much. Very good job. Great job.
Say your name and what school you're from. Hi, I'm Izan Ravi and I'm from Odessa Elementary School. So my post is about how we can prevent microplastics from getting in the water. Future scientists,
I knew it from your post office.
'Cause the microplastics they harm all sorts of sea life, like turtles and fish, because the microplastics can cause animals to choke. And then you know what that means. I don't want to say it out loud. So so first my posters about How we can prevent it. So first we go over what's the problem. So the these problems are synthetic shirts and
plastics and shampoos and conditioners that use a lot of microplastics. And the second section is on where do they go. They go into the oce they go from showers, drains and sinks into the ocean, which will then allow which will then make it pollute all of the ocean and make all of the animals choke. So so then we so then on the final section, which is
at the bottom, is how we can prevent and stop these microplastics from getting into the water. We could use screens that catch the bigger pieces of plastic. And there's also a specific type type of algae that eats these microplastics. We can also use less con shampoos and conditioners that ha that are microplastic heavy. Yeah.
Thank you so much. What grade are you in? Fourth grade. Fourth grade. Great job.
Say your name and what school you're from. My name is Hunter
and I'm from Sanders Elementary School. Um
Tell us about your postcarf.
You wanna tell us that one way you can conserve water?
Take shoulder, shoulders, trying to.
Take shorter shorter showers. That's right.
Take shorter showers. Good job. I love all the colours you used in your poster. Great job.
It says H two O, go with the flow. Thank you, Mike.
Are you okay? You wanna come? You don't want to? Okay, that's okay. I'm sorry, you can just come back here then if you don't want to talk. If you don't want to talk you can just come up there,
Do Do you want to go?
Yeah. Do you talk into that?
Yeah.
Um, my name is Adrika Sawudi. I'm from Wesley Chapel Elementary School and um my poster just demonstrates several ways which we can save water in our homes, outside our homes, and like different ways the pollution affects life in the oceans. Awesome. Awesome.
Very well organized.
Oh, you wanna say something? Wait, hang on, listen.
Thank you. I just wanted to, and I'm Phoenix McKinney. I'm with Pasco County Utilities Water Conservation Coordinator. I do have the privilege of working with many of the people you see back here who work together through FGUA and the county to put together the program. We have some teachers here and of course the families that support these really talented students and we appreciate your support as well. Saving water is highly important. So it's nice that the children are learning about it and that they are learning
so much about it and expressing it through their art as well as words. Thank you.
So turn over here.
Can I have the students and com uh can I have the whole group
competitive
competition? Yeah.
You get one of these.
Have
any other pieces?
Um let's do it just do it. Get closer together. There we go.
And then if we could all kind of bunch closer together.
Ready? Come on.
And then if I can ask folks I will give you an opportunity to take a photo, but if you can back up a little bit.
All
right,
ready?
Three, two.
All right, and then stay there and fair enough.
Anyone else? Lisa.
Do any parents want to happen? Yes, of course.
Teachers.
Sit down.
Hunter's mommy coming in.
All right, ready? All right. Three, two, one.
Congratulations guys for the channel.
So good to see you
Right.
Well congratulations.
Just bang.