City King Commission Announces Web Design Contest Winners

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 12, 2010

For more information, contact:
William Vance, Jr., Chair, City of Bloomington Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission, 332-1513
Craig Brenner, Special Projects Coordinator, Community and Family Resources, City of Bloomington, 349-3471
Danny Lopez, Communications Director, City of Bloomington, 349-CITY, lopezd@bloomington.in.gov




Bloomington, IN - The City of Bloomington's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration Commission has announced the winners of its annual Web Design Contest for students in elementary, middle and high schools.

The contest was open to students in both the Monroe County Community School Corporation (MCCSC) and the Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corporation (RBB). Students who participated were asked to address the question "If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, what advice would he give to President Barack Obama?"

The overall contest winner, with the highest rated entry, is Ethan Briggs from Batchelor Middle School.

Other contest results:
Elementary - Class entries
First Place - Erin Ritchey's Class, Fairview Elementary
Second Place - Karen Streib's Class, Fairview Elementary

Elementary - Individual entries
First Place - Sydney Way and Emily Axsom, Lakeview Elementary
Second Place - Phiona Raffington and Amy Lannan, Lakeview Elementary, and Jake Leimer and Dawson Hood, Lakeview Elementary
Third Place - Caitlyn Stephens, Grandview Elementary
Honorable Mention: Kyle Cardwell, Grandview Elementary; Tommy Beggs, Childs Elementary

Middle School - Individual entries
First Place - Ethan Briggs, Batchelor Middle School
Second Place - Amy Cohn, Jackson Creek Middle School
Third Place - Eliza Goehl, Tri-North Middle School
Honorable Mention - Ryan Wicker, Batchelor Middle School; Brady Scott, Batchelor Middle School; Noah Marks, Batchelor Middle School

High School - Individual entries
First Place - Aaron Anderson, Bloomington North High School
Second Place - Casey Thompson, Bloomington North High School.

Winners will receive cash prizes and be recognized at a reception at First United Methodist Church, 219 E. 4th Street, at 5 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. All participants are invited to attend. Contest winners also will be listed in the program at the King Birthday Celebration on January 18 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E Kirkwood Ave.

Diane Jung, Events Planner at the Indiana University Office of the President, and Professor Martin Siegel of the IU School of Informatics and Computing, chaired the Web Design Contest committee. Additional committee members included Maureen Biggers, IU School of Informatics and Computing Assistant Dean for Diversity and Education, and Craig Brenner, Special Projects Coordinator for the City's Community and Family Resources. Graduate students in the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing served as judges. They included Binaebi Akah, Candace Buggs, Anna Eaglin, Holt Ellis, Fanxing Kong, Corinthe Harris, Ravikumar Jayaraman, Nina Mehta, Eugene Siew, Kathleen Surfus, and Anjana Thirumalai. Additional support was provided by Clint Mahoney and Terry Daugherty of MCCSC and Charlie Beima of RBB.

Information about the Web design contest and other MLK events is available online at www.bloomington.in.gov/mlk or by calling Brenner at 349-3471.

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