The “Picture Agriculture in West Virginia” poster contest for fourth-grade students in the state is sponsored by the West Virginia Farm Bureau’s Women’s Committee. The purpose of the contest is to promote the importance of agriculture in the Mountain State.
For the past 35 years, Pendleton County Farm Bureau has supported the contest for all fourth-grade students in the county.
Nakiyah Perez won the county poster contest. Her poster was entered in the state competition. Second place went to Madison Borror with Carsson Mitchell earning third place. Honorable mention was awarded to Mia Dudley and Lucas Hanna.
For her winning poster on the county level, Perez received $15. Borror earned $10, and Mitchell received $5. Dudley and Hanna each received $2, a Sacagawea dollar and a presidential dollar.
Perez, Mitchell and Hanna are students in Christine Lambert’s class at Brandywine Elementary School. Borror and Dudley attend Franklin Elementary School and are students in Breanna Griffin’s class.
The other students participating in the contest were awarded a presidential dollar. All participants received a certificate, signed by Steve Conrad, president of PCFB, and Paula Mitchell, the PCFB women’s committee chairperson.
Sixty-five posters were drawn by the county’s fourth-grade students.
The following students also participated in the contest:
BES – Hunter Bowers, Faith Hough-Lachica, Jayson Jameson, Fletcher Puffenbarger, Vencen Rawson,
Wyatt Reel, Jack Edward Roberts, Chloe Simmons, Harper Spivey, Bethany Teagarden and Brody Whitlock;
FES (Griffin) – Brinleigh Bishop, Abbigail Cayton, Hailey Ferris, Karson Fox, Chase George, Dani Hoover, Paisley Jackson, Jaycee Lynn Jameson, Madison Mongold, Mason Mowery, Baylee Ours, Adara Plaugher, Kylie Raymond, Nathanael Vincell, Kieley Wheeler, Leah Wheeler and Colton Whetzel;
FES (Shanna Eye) – Mattox Ayala, Josiah Botkin, Lola Brooks, Tori Christan, Sloane Donnelly, Madalyn Griffin, Dylan Harper, Finley Harper, Hunter Hedrick, Urban Jones, Kaci Keller, Ariel Martin, Chandler Mauzy, Alexis Michael, Maddie Nesselrodt, Rosalyn Nesselrodt, Karsyn Ruddle, Emmett Sisson and Ryan Thompson; and
NFES (Rebecca Heavner) – Karlee Arbaugh, Oliver Cook, Leland Dove, Briar Hedrick, Kaden Kimble, Isaiah Marlow, Jace Nelson, Jace Ours, Vera Selmon, Kinsley Shane, Hannah Sponaugle, Braylon Warner and Layla Warner.
