Since 1998, Indiana Connection, Indiana Electric Cooperatives, and participating Indiana electric cooperatives have held an annual art contest for Indiana students in grades kindergarten through 12.
This contest helps co-ops meet one of the 7 cooperative principles — commitment to community. As more art programs in schools face budgetary challenges, Indiana Connection believes encouraging the arts — the imagination, self-expression, and creativity these disciplines stimulate — is vital to society. Not only do the arts produce aesthetic beauty and entertainment for our hearts and souls, studies after study show the arts play a key role alongside science, technology, engineering, and math in producing the minds of well-rounded, problem-solving, thoughtful individuals needed to lead and run our modern, high-tech world.
Cooperative Student Art Contest — ENTRIES OPEN OCT. 6, 2025!
Entry information for the Cooperative Student Art Contest will be accepted starting Oct. 6, 2025. You can find details here.
Congratulations to last year’s winners below!
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2026 Cooperative Calendar of Student Art Contest Winners Announced!
Here are the talented artist selected in the annual Cooperative Calendar of Student Art Contest.
Grade Division winners ($200)
- Kindergarten —Jane Olsen, Newburgh
- First Grade — Luci Lampert, Birdseye
- Second Grade — Lacey Madden, Birdseye
- Third Grade — Nash Cissell, Borden
- Fourth Grade — Dustin Otto, Amboy
- Fifth Grade — Hunter Spindler, Greenwood
- Sixth Grade — Flynn Cissell, Borden
- Seventh Grade — Isabella Martin, Fort Wayne
- Eighth Grade — Zoe Bubp, Fort Wayne
- Ninth Grade — Cooper Baird, Fort Wayne
- 10th Grade — Daelyn Kirkdorffer, South Whitley
- 11th Grade — Presley Gray, Fort Wayne (Best of Show Winner)
- 12th Grade — Cassidy Skinner, South Whitley
Honorable Mention winners ($75)
- Kindergarten — Junia Richey, Milford
- First Grade — Claire Landis, Georgetown
- Second Grade — Suzie Shepard, Fort Wayne
- Third Grade — Viola Fessel, New Albany
- Fourth Grade — Audrey Katerberg, Madison
- Fifth Grade — Elise Weaver, West Lafayette
- Sixth Grade — Ella Jamiel, Syracuse
- Seventh Grade — Norah Yoder, Fort Wayne
- Eighth Grade — Reece Shalley, Bloomington
- Ninth Grade — Marissa Rodgers, Fort Wayne
- 10th Grade — Elle Zeidler, Elizabeth
- 11th Grade — Annalise Nymann, Seymour
- 12th Grade — Riley Aebersold, New Albany