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.
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.”
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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