[Press Release] : FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Columbia Youth Teaching Efficiency Contest Winners

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Contact: Connie Kacprowicz, Communications & Marketing Supervisor
Columbia Water & Light
573-874-7325 or csk at gocolumbiamo.com

Columbia Youth Teaching Efficiency Contest Winners 

COLUMBIA, MO (June 24, 2015) - Columbia Water & Light held a marketing competition for middle school students in Columbia Public Schools’ Extended Educational Experience (EEE) program. The competition gave students a real-world project to use the skills they learn during the energy efficiency marketing unit. Columbia Water & Light gave out a total of $1,000 in prize money to the most creative and clever entries in each category. Plus, the students have a rare opportunity to showcase their creations in the community. 

Columbia Water & Light constantly works to educate customers about energy efficiency. The goal with this project is to present the utility’s efficiency marketing messages in a fun way that showcases the youth's creativity. It also teaches future problem-solvers to think about energy efficiency and incorporate it into their own lives.

Each student could submit one official entry for each of the following categories: visual art, haiku, marketing program name, and 30 second audio commercial. Since this was the first year of the project, Columbia Water & Light staff also added some special categories when one element of the entry stood out for one reason but it wasn’t enough to make it an overall winner in its category. The utility has not determined all the ways that the students’ entries will be used. Some of the ads have been scheduled to run on radio stations, in web ads, on social media outlets and featured in the City Source newsletter. There are some entries that will be more suitable for the winter so contest entries will be used over the next year. 

All of the submissions are showcased in the display cabinets on the first floor of City Hall. The winning entries can also be found on Columbia Water & Light’s energy efficiency website at: http://columbiapowerpartners.com/columbia-youth-teaching-efficiency/

2015 Columbia Water & Light Marketing Contest Winners

Name/LOGO

WINNER: Jackson Huenefeldt, Smithton, Kirkpatrick, 6th

HONORABLE MENTION: Hardy Emmett Pottinger, West, Barnhouse, 6th

 

Visual

WINNERS: 

Elizabeth Henderson, West, Barnhouse, 6th

                Lucie Song, Jeff, Winton, 6th

                Audrey Guess, Gentry, Trower, 7th

HONORABLE MENTION: 

Olivia Garino, Smithton, Kirkpatrick, 7th

                Ivy Asplund, Gentry, Trower, 7th

                Rongrong Wang, Jeff, Winton, 6th

                Grace Spell, West, Barhouse, 7th

                Olivia Anderson, Gentry, Trower, 7th

 

Haiku

WINNERS: 

Connor McNamee, Gentry, Trower, 6th

                Zoe Giblin, Gentry, Trower, 7th

                Sami Fierke, Jeff, Winton, 7th

                Audrey Shively, Oakland, Kirkpatrick, 6th

                Sydney Livingston, Oakland, Kirkpatrick, 7th

HONORABLE MENTION: 

Garrett Roach, Jeff, Winton

                Michael Bledsoe, Jeff, Winton

Sarah Mosteller, Jeff, Winton

                Grace Dyer, Gentry, Trower, 7th

                Will Sanders, Jeff, Winton, 6th

 

Radio

WINNERS: 

Jacinta Chacon, Jeff, Winton, 6th

                Jake Monsees, Jeff, Winton, 7th

HONORABLE MENTION: 

Amira Metoui, Jeff, Winton, 6th

                Anushka Jalisatgi, Jeff, Winton, 7th

 

 

Special Categories

Slogan: Sarah A Mosteller, Jeff, Winton, 6th

Wordplay: Mia Garino, Smithton, Kirkpatrick, 7th

Complex information: Mackenzie Harrington, Lange, Winton, 6th

Whimsy: Jack Stevens, Jeff, Winton, 7th

Humor: Jarett Ren, Jeff, Winton, 6th

 

Columbia Water & Light staff members would like to thank Columbia Public Schools and the EEE program for their support of this project. Beth Winton, Heidi Barnhouse, Andrea Kirkpatrick, and Gretchen Trower welcomed us into their classrooms so the utility could offer a real-world marketing experience to their students. Jake Giessman supported us at the administration level. 



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