Student photo contest - 2017
Your Community History - Presented January 26, 2018
Congratulations to the student photographers in the Happy Birthday, Kansas! Photo Contest! We would like to thank our presenters Governor Sam Brownback, Marearl Denning with the legislative spouses, the state senators and representatives, and the University of Kansas Chamber Singers. Jennie Chinn, Kansas Historical Society executive director, was emcee. We also thank the students who entered 627 photos from 47 Kansas counties!
Student winners:
First grade
Jake Sibley, Topeka, Our Beautiful Capitol at Night, first place
Adynn R. Milburn, Elkhart, Getting Ready for Morton County Fair, second place
Second grade
Faith McMannis, Canton, Elevator at sunset, first place
Grayson Maxwell, Larned, Cannon at Fort Larned, second place
Third grade
Michaelia Ferguson, Mount Hope, Dazzling Trees, first place
Samuel Rogers, Auburn, Still Standing, second place
Fourth grade
Emmie Grimm, Morrill, Stood the Test of Time, first place
Kaitlyn Popejoy, Pittsburg, Miners Memorial, second place
Fifth grade
Josephine B. Denney, Lansing, Leavenworth Veterans Day Parade, first place
Katy Prieb, Fence and One-Room Schoolhouse, second place
Sixth grade
Trudy Hein, Hillsboro, Harvest Time, first place
Regan Hedstrom, Cheney, A Day on the Farm, second place
Seventh grade
Jal Maru, Topeka, Reclaiming the Past, Framing the Future, first place
Dylan Adkins, Overland Park, The Old Shawnee Mission Supply Wagon, second place
Eighth grade
Mikayla Skidmore, Smith Center, Osborne Courthouse, first place
Braelynn Cunningham, Ashland, Friday Night Lights, second place
Ninth grade
Aiden Moore, Canton, Foggy Main Street, first place
Isaac Richardson, Topeka, Railroad Vision, second place
10th grade
Sophie Osborn, Chanute, Abandoned, first place
Celey Johnson, McPherson, Refinery at Sunset, second place
11th grade
Jillian Ross-Mason, Canton, Sunset Courthouse, first place
Terra Saunders, Galva, Lily, second place
12th grade
Ashton Faith Imel, Bucklin, Amber Waves of Grain, first place
Emma Marvin, Wichita, Kansas Sunset, second place
Posters
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Download version 2 | JPG | PDF
Follow these links to the photographs in Flickr:
Sponsors
This year's awards for first- and second- place prizes are made possible through donations from these people and organizations. Please help us thank them for their generosity.
$600
- Representative Scott Schwab - Kansas House District 49 - and Michelle Schwab
$500
- AT&T Kansas
- Representative J. Stephen Alford - Kansas House District 117 - and Peggy Alford
- Bukaty Companies
- Centene Management Company, LLC
- Senator Jim Denning - Kansas District 8 – Marearl Denning
- Kansas Association of Medicaid Health Plans
- Reach Out Kansas, Inc.
- Law Firm of Smithyman & Zakoura
$250
- Representative John Barker - Kansas House District 70 - and April Barker
- Senator Elaine Bowers - Kansas Senate District 36 - and Charles Bowers
- Representative Susan Concannon - Kansas House District 107
- Senator Dan Kerschen - Kansas Senate District 26 - and Noreen Kerschen
- Representative Greg Lewis - Kansas House District 113 - and Susan Lewis
- Senator Carolyn McGinn - Kansas Senate District 31
- Kenneth Selzer - Kansas Insurance Commissioner
- Senator John Skubal - Kansas Senate District 11
- Senator Richard Wilborn - Kansas Senate District 35
- Representative Kathy Wolfe-Moore - Kansas House District 36
$200
- Representative Barbara Ballard - Kansas House District 44 - and Albert Ballard
- Whitney B. Damron, PA, and Kathy Damron
- Senator Bud Estes - Kansas Senate District 119 - and Renae Estes
- Federico Consulting, Inc.
- Senator Tom Hawk - Kansas Senate District 22 - and Diane Hawk
- Ronald and Julie Hein
- Senator Julia Lynn - Kansas Senate District 9 - and Jeff Lynn
