Texas 4th Grader Wins Energy-Saving Billboard ContestTexas 4th grader Kate Kiely's Grand Prize winning drawing in Switch It!
December 13 2007 - 5:49PM
Business Wire
Commerce Energy announces the Grand Prize winner and five runners
up in the Switch It! energy-saving billboard contest. Former
Dallas-based football star, Chad Hennings, presented the $1,000
check to fourth-grade science student, Kate Kiely. Hennings, Kiely
and the winning design will appear on billboards in the Dallas area
during January and February. Winning the contest came as a surprise
to Kiely. She found out when it was announced in front of nearly 90
of her classmates during a school assembly at Big Springs
Elementary School, part of the Richardson Independent School
District, Garland, Texas. Melissa Smith is the fourth-grade science
instructor, and brought the Switch It! program into her classroom.
Kiely�s winning billboard design features a light bulb named Larry
who encourages others to, �Be Bright and Turn off the Light!�
Runners up in the program will each receive two energy-saving light
bulbs and four movie tickets. Runners up are fourth graders: Emma
Miller, Seymour Elementary School, Seymour Texas; Heather Lo, Big
Springs Elementary School, Garland, Texas; and Rachel Bui, Jamie
Griffin and Joy Siler, Corey Elementary School, Arlington, Texas.
All six of the billboard designs will be posted on the company�s
Web site: www.CommerceEnergy.com. �Congratulations to the winners.
We were delighted with the creativity of the designs,� said
Commerce Energy Chief Executive Officer, Steven S. Boss. �The
teachers, who do important work every day, also supported their
students in energy-saving efforts. The children certainly
understood the message and did a great job of showing how families
can be encouraged save on their energy use.� The Billboard Contest
was the final part of a three-part energy education and
energy-saving curriculum called Switch It! The Switch It! program
provided hands-on lessons in energy conservation. The program was
sponsored by Commerce Energy, a deregulated retail energy provider,
and was designed jointly with Young Minds Inspired, an
award-winning specialist in the creation of in-school
curriculum-based programs. More than 1,700 schools in the Dallas /
Fort Worth area received the Switch It! program for first through
fourth grades. The program was kicked off with visits from Chad
Hennings to J.N. Ervin Elementary School in Dallas and South Hills
Elementary School in Fort Worth on October 9. About Commerce Energy
Commerce Energy Group, Inc. is a leading independent U.S.
electricity and natural gas marketing company, operating through
its wholly-owned subsidiaries. Commerce Energy, Inc. is licensed by
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and by state regulatory
agencies as an unregulated retail marketer of natural gas and
electricity to homeowners, commercial and industrial consumers and
institutional customers. Headquartered in Orange County,
California, the company also has an office in Dallas, Texas, as
well as several area offices located around the U.S. For a decade,
customers have relied on Commerce to deliver competitive pricing,
innovative product offerings and personalized customer service, in
addition to quality gas and electric services. For more
information, visit www.CommerceEnergy.com. About YMI YMI is an
award-winning specialist in the creation of in-school
curriculum-based programs. It is owned and operated by former
award-winning teachers and experts in educational motivation who
have developed more than 2,000 in-school programs for pre-school
through college. YMI understands how to create innovative materials
that correlate with national curriculum standards and provide tools
and methods that teachers embrace, students love and parents
appreciate. All programs are reviewed by YMI�s special teacher
advisory board and are distributed free to teachers who seek
creative tools for their classrooms.
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