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Las Vegas Fourth Grader Wins Free Fishing Day Poster Contest

The Nevada Department of Wildlife had recently published an article about two of our 4th grade students entering and winning the Nevada Fishing Day poster contest.

When Adalay Pèrez, fourth grader at Wayne Tanaka Elementary in Las Vegas, was working on her entry for this year’s Free Fishing Day Poster Contest she wanted to include things that showed how much she loved her home state of Nevada. So after she drew a nice picture of two people catching fish, she added a desert bighorn sheep, the state animal of Nevada, and a mountain bluebird, the state bird of Nevada. “I wanted to represent the state,” she would tell her teacher. 

Well now her picture will “represent the state” as the winner of the 2018 Nevada Free Fishing Day Poster Contest. Her artwork will be used for NDOW’s Free Fishing Day poster, which is sent to all of the schools in the state as well as NDOW offices as a reminder about Free Fishing Day. Her work will also be displayed in the 2018 Nevada Fishing Guide.  

Erica Jordan, a fourth grade teacher at Tanaka Elementary, was doubly excited when she learned that another student in her class, fourth grader Anna Karen Villalobos, had placed third in this year’s contest as well. “I cannot believe that two of my students placed in the top three in the state,” she said. “I feel so excited and thrilled to have my students be in the top.  Anna Karen and Adalay are very good girls. This is the perfect award for them.” 

Read the rest of the article here:

http://www.ndow.org/Our_Agency/News/Articles/Las_Vegas_Fourth_Grader_Wins_Free_Fishing_Day_Poster_Contest/