Student Art Takes a Bus Ride Contest Winners Announced

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May 18, 2010

SamTrans recently announced the winners of the annual county-wide student art competition, Art Takes a Bus Ride. The winning entries were selected from more than 300 submissions from 18 San Mateo County schools. The artists, who are in kindergarten to fifth grade, were asked to illustrate the theme “Go Places, Go SamTrans.”

The grand prize-winning entry was submitted by Anita Lam, a fifth grader at Foster City Elementary in Foster City. Lam used cartoon-style “word balloons” to show each rider’s destination on her SamTrans bus.

The winning entries of all the artists will be featured on ad cards inside SamTrans buses and on the outside of a SamTrans bus – the Art Bus. The Art Bus will be used to provide regular revenue service throughout the SamTrans service area for the next year.

The winning entries featured children riding SamTrans to the beach, the zoo, the park and grandma and grandpa’s house. The young artists used a variety of media, including watercolor, foil, acrylic paint, crayon and colored pencil.

The winners received a SamTrans Summer Youth Pass, a certificate and a framed copy of the bus ad card that displays their art, as well as an assortment of art supplies.

On a typical weekday, nearly 12,000 young people ride SamTrans buses, more than 25 percent of the District’s total ridership. In addition to a discounted youth fare, tokens and monthly youth pass, the District also encourages young people to ride the bus by offering a deeply discounted Summer Youth Pass for riders 17 years old and younger.

Winning Entries

Grade K-1 Winning Entries
Makena Pereira, first grade
Central Elementary, Belmont
Teacher: Mrs. Jan Switick

Aniket Hingnekar, first grade
Central Elementary, Belmont
Teacher: Mrs. Schroeder

Grade 2-3 Winning Entries
Brandon Gee, third grade
Sandpiper Elementary, Redwood City
Teacher: Ms. Watson

Julia Everson, third grade
Roosevelt Elementary, Burlingame
Teacher: Mrs. Yanez-Vierra & Ms. Janc

Grade 4-5 Winning Entries
Maddie King, fourth grade
La Entrada Middle School, Menlo Park
Teacher: Ms. Heather Ostrom

Grand Prize Winner
Anita Lam, fifth grade
Foster City Elementary, Foster City
Teacher: Ms. Lalosh