Since 1998, Indiana Connection and participating Indiana electric cooperatives have held an annual art contest for Indiana students in grades kindergarten through 12. The winning works from each grade are then used to illustrate the Cooperative Calendar of Student Art that participating REMCs/RECs have distributed.
Each of the numbered grades is given the corresponding month of the year to illustrate: 12 grades, 12 months. It’s a perfect combination. Kindergartners are assigned the cover each year. The calendar is localized by the participating cooperatives to provide important information to consumers such as billing and annual meeting dates, phone numbers and electrical safety and energy efficiency information. The calendar helps co-ops meet one of the 7 cooperative principles — member information and education. In addition, by being illustrated with student art, the calendar helps fulfill another of the 7 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.
Congratulations to our Cooperative Calendar of Student Art Contest Winners!
Here are the students who will be gracing the pages of our 2022 Cooperative Calendar of Student Art.
Grade Division winners ($200)
Kindergarten — Arabella White, Medora
First Grade — Reid Blake, Greensburg
Second Grade — Flynn Cissell, Borden
Third Grade — Olivia DeSchamp, Jasper
Fourth Grade — Jessa Berg, Ferdinand
Fifth Grade — Rachael Shoemaker, Argos
Sixth Grade — Jackson Robbins, Rochester
Seventh Grade — Harley Koons, Seymour
Eighth Grade — Riley Aebersold, New Albany
Ninth Grade — Justine Ocken, South Whitley
10th Grade — Andrew Zink, Winona Lake
11th Grade — Hannah Brown, South Whitley
12th Grade — Danielle Sommerman, English
Best of Show — Danielle Sommerman, English (additional $100)
Honorable Mention winners ($75)
Kindergarten — Ella Lubbers, Ferdinand
First Grade — Cora Atkins, Ferdinand
Second Grade — Hannie McNeely, Fairland
Third Grade — Kaylin Fuller, Charlestown
Fourth Grade — Julie Bloomfield, Winona Lake
Fifth Grade — SaRai Fontanez, Seymour
Sixth Grade — Adilynn Meyers, Decatur
Seventh Grade — Lucy Hess, Crawfordsville
Eighth Grade — Cameryn Proxmire, Kendallville
Ninth Grade — Justine Ocken, South Whitley
10th Grade — Sophia Watson, Charlestown
11th Grade — Kaitlin Anderson, South Whitley
12th Grade — Abigail Brinegar, Paoli
2023 COOPERATIVE CALENDAR OF STUDENT ART CONTEST
Details will be available soon for our 2023 Cooperative Calendar of Student Art Contest!