Clarke Middle Schooler Named Winner of National Marine Art Contest
The East Meadow Union Free School District is pleased to announce that Bailey McNamara, a sixth-grade student at W.T. Clarke Middle School, has been named the grand prizewinner of a national art contest that was held at the end of the 2009-2010 school year. The contest, which focused on the marine environment challenged students across North America to create a poster around the theme “Mariners Help Save Our Seas.”
The winning poster, created by Bailey while a fifth grader at Bowling Green Elementary School, will be distributed to global maritime industry outlets, including the International Maritime Organization, an agency of the United Nations and the regulatory body for the industry.
The art contest was open to students aged five to thirteen in schools and at Immersion Learning sites in the United States, Canada and Mexico, as well as Boys & Girls Clubs and other after-school groups. Immersion Learning is a dynamic, hands-on science education program that provides schools and informal learning organizations with the opportunity to host interactive science experiences for students in grades four through eight.
Bailey’s poster concentrated on special fishing nets called “turtle excluder devices” (TEDs), which mariners use to ensure that large marine animals don’t become trapped. A dolphin and a sea turtle are illustrated in Bailey’s pencil and marker drawing, with information on TEDs neighboring the animals.
As her grand prize package, Bailey received a Mystic Aquarium Animal Adoption Kit, a 16-inch plush beluga whale, a signed book from famed oceanographer Dr. Robert Ballard, and a one-year membership for her and her family to Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut. She also received a signed photo of Dr. Ballard and a letter of appreciation.
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