Upcoming: Metra Safety Poster Contest

Jane Addams Families,

At Jane Addams we are encouraging students to participate in the Metra Safety Poster Contest and/or Essay Contest. See contest information below.

Additionally, Jane Addams will select grade level winners. Winners will receive a $25 gift card to Toys R Us.

Please submitted all entries and entry forms to the school office by January 16, 2017.
 

Metra Contest Information

The Safety Poster Contest is a key part of these ongoing efforts to increase public awareness. Through the contest, we’re asking students to take on an advocacy role and create an image that clearly communicates the importance of safety near the tracks. One first-, second- and third-place winner will be selected from each grade, K through 12, and awarded the following prizes:

FIRST PLACE: iPad

SECOND PLACE: $250 gift card

THIRD PLACE: $100 gift card

The winning designs will be featured in Metra’s safety calendar, website, station displays and on weekend passes.

Students are also encouraged to enter the 2016-2017 Metra Safety Essay Contest. Contest participants are asked to describe in 300 words or less how to “Keep Yourself(ies) Safe” when near trains and railroad tracks.  There will be a first place awarded in each of the essay contest’s three divisions: Grades K-4, 5-8 and 9-12. The first-place winners in the essay contest will receive an iPad.

Metra wants as many students as possible to participate and be exposed to rail safety information and encourage schools to make rail safety a school-wide project.
 

Poster Entry Criteria:

Participants are asked to illustrate why it is important to “Keep Yourself(ies) Safe” when near the railroad tracks.

Each entry must be:

Submitted at a size no smaller than 8 1/2 inches x 11 inches and no larger than 12” x 18”.
 

Essay Entry Criteria:

Participants are asked to explain in 300 words or less why it is important to “Keep Yourself(ies) Safe” when near trains and railroad tracks.