All News Releases By Date

MAUI STUDENT TO BE AWARDED FIRST PRIZE IN NATIONAL ART CONTEST

Release Date: 4/3/2000
Contact Information: Dave Schmidt, U.S. EPA, (415) 744-1578

     News Media Advisory

             
 10 MAUI STUDENT S HONORED FOR ART WITH ENVIRONMENTAL MESSAGE  

WHO:            U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Hawaii representative Vicki Tsuhako,   EPA                HQ's Wendy Timmons, Principal Wallace Fujii of Maui's Baldwin High      
                 School, the student who won first prize, art teacher Mrs. Janet Sato, and her                          Baldwin High art class.

WHAT:        EPA representatives will award a student at Maui's Baldwin High School firstprize in                                                EPA's nationwide environmental art contest, out of over 3,000 entries
       from across the nation in the Grade 7-12 category.  The student's award-winning    
     art will be on display, along with art work by the14 other Hawaii students named  
     as finalists, including two fourth-grade students from Kahului Elementary, who      
     were  runners-up in the  Grade K-6 category.  Ten of the 14 Hawaii honorees are    
     from Maui.  The winning high school student's work will grace the cover of a CD  
     ROM distributed nationally by EPA.

WHEN:     1:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 4.

WHERE:    Baldwin High School, 1650 Kahumanu Ave., Wailuku, Maui.