FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, May 17, 2001
Contact: Ben Langer
Telephone: 202-366-5580
DOT 50–01
Pennsylvania
Fifth Grader Wins Transportation Week Poster Contest
Sean Goldinger, a fifth grader at Hillside Elementary School, New Cumberland, Pa., earned a $200 United States Savings Bond yesterday by winning first place in the National Transportation Week poster contest.
Goldinger was one of three students to win awards in the annual poster contest that celebrates the role of transportation in the life of Americans. Douglas A. Bernard, director of government relations for Quixote Transportation Safety, sponsor of the contest, presented the $200 savings bond and a plaque to the fifth grader. His school received a $500 check.
“We are fortunate in this country to have a transportation system that fosters economic growth, quality of life and virtually unlimited access to goods, services and destinations,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta said. “National Transportation Week affords us an excellent opportunity to celebrate our achievements and work together across modes to look at our future.”
The winning poster showed a red, white and blue striped United States tethered to the many modes of transportation and highlighted the theme, “Transportation – It keeps America Moving.”
The second place poster, titled simply “Transportation,” was submitted by Jared Soeda of New York’s PS/IS 187 at 349 Cabrini Boulevard. His poster depicts North America on a globe traversed by a truck, ship, bus, auto, rocket and airplane. Soeda received a $100 savings bond and his school, a check for $200.
The third place poster was submitted by Brittany Oliver, Baranoff Elementary School, Austin, Texas. Her poster shows highways, interchanges and bridges with cars, trucks, buses, and a motorcycle on the ground with an airplane in the sky. Oliver received a $100 savings bond and a $100 check for her school.
The winning entries were selected from among more than 150 submissions, and the funds for the awards were donated Quixote Transportation Safety, a National Transportation Week partner. A team of volunteer judges from among the transportation week partners chose the winners. The winning posters will be posted on the Internet at www.ntweek.org.
The awards were presented at Potomac Field in Prince George’s County, Md., where the department’s Federal Aviation Administration played host to about 1000 school children from the Washington, D.C., area for a morning of competitions, exhibits, demonstrations and displays that included more than 20 aircraft.
National Transportation Week this year is May 13-19. National Transportation Week occurs each year during the week that includes the third Friday in May, which is National Defense Transportation Day. National Transportation Week has been observed since 1962 when it was established by a Congressional joint resolution; National Defense Transportation Day has been observed since 1957.
Click here for a picture of the winning poster.
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