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Character Counts In Glenview Poster, Video Contest Winners Recognized

First, second and third place winners of the Glenview Character Counts Poster and Video contest pose of a group photo before the Tuesday, Feb. 7 Glenview Village Board meeting where they were recognized. (Tom Robb/Journal photo)

Character Counts In Glenview co-chairs, Willowbrook School Principal Scott Carlson and Maple School Principal Sam Kurtz, awarded nine elementary and middle school students for their posters and videos in the Character Counts Poster and Video contest at Tuesday’s Glenview Village Board meeting.

Winning students received medals and posed with Carlson, Kurtz, and their families.   

The contest was open to all kindergarten through eighth-grade students in public, private, or home-schooling in Glenview. Students from kindergarten through fourth grade made posters touting the six pillars of character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. Fourth through eighth graders made videos. 

Niam Datta, a first grader from Willowbrook School took first place in the Glenview Character Counts poster contest for kindergarten through second grade. (Image submitted)

Winners were, in grades kindergarten through second, Niam Datta, a first grader from Willowbrook School, first place; Madilyn Lee, a second grader from Westbrook School, second place; and Brady Pfenning, a second grader from Lyon School in third.

In third and fourth grades, Ellen Kim, a fourth grader from Hoffman School, came in first, Aryahi Akash, a fourth grader from Willowbrook, came in second, and Emerson Theobald, a fourth grader at Willowbrook, came in third. 

Datta’s winning poster shows the face of the Willowbrook School Wildcat, birds, and a ladder, listing the six Character Counts Pillars of Character. The poster reads, “Willowbrook Community,  there are six pillars of Character Counts that we climb.”

Ellen Kim, a fourth grader from Hoffman School, shows off her first place winning poster, in the third and fourth grade category, with her family and Glenview Village President Mike Jenny at the Character Counts Video and Poster Awards at the Tuesday, Feb. 7 village board meeting. (Tom Robb/Journal photo)

Kim’s winning poster shows a school with four kids of different races standing in front of it, next to a sign which reads “Together” below the outlines of five people of different colors. 

In the video contest, for students in fifth through eighth grade, first place went to Eli Mathew and Amay Agarwal, both of Wescott School; second place went to Lucia Kosowski and Olivia Pepek, both of Willowbrook School; and third place went to Paul Novak, Miles Bauer, and Logan Gosser all of Wescott School. 

Besides the poster and video contest, Character Counts in Glenview also conducts an annual essay contest in the spring.

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