{"id":40770,"date":"2024-01-22T13:20:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T18:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=40770"},"modified":"2024-01-22T13:20:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T18:20:18","slug":"maryland-fifth-graders-invited-to-submit-arbor-day-posters-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2024\/01\/22\/maryland-fifth-graders-invited-to-submit-arbor-day-posters-for-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Fifth Graders Invited to Submit Arbor Day Posters for 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Annual contest taking submissions until March 1, 2024<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Addilyn Centineo, of Eldersburg, Carroll County won first place in the 2023 Arbor Day Poster Contest, with a prize of 15 trees to her school for planting.<\/p><\/div>\n

The\u00a0<\/span>Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Forest Conservancy District Boards<\/span><\/a>\u00a0invite all Maryland fifth graders in private and public schools to participate in the annual\u00a0<\/span>Arbor Day Poster Contest<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The theme for 2024 is: \u201cTrees Are Terrific\u2026in All Shapes and Sizes!\u201d to celebrate the importance of diversity of tree species within a community.<\/span><\/p>\n

All entries must be delivered to a<\/span> local Maryland Forest Service office<\/span><\/a> by noon on March 1, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

Students are encouraged to share their appreciation for Maryland\u2019s forests and trees through original works of art. Poster size must be no smaller than 8.5 by 11 inches and no larger than 22 by 28 inches. They must be drawn in acrylic, crayon, ink, marker, paint pens, regular or colored pencil, tempera paint, or watercolor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Posters will be judged on a county level and then submitted to the Maryland Urban and Community Forest Committee to compete at the statewide level. A select panel will then choose the top three winning posters that will receive tree plantings at the artists\u2019 schools \u2500 first place will win 15 trees, second place will receive 10, and third place will receive five. Teachers will be notified by late March, and school plantings will be scheduled in spring.<\/span><\/p>\n

Contest comments or questions may be directed to Melissa Nash of the Maryland Forest Service at 301-334-3296 or <\/span>melissa.nash@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Annual contest taking submissions until March 1, 2024 The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0and\u00a0Forest Conservancy District Boards\u00a0invite all Maryland fifth graders in private and public schools to participate in the annual\u00a0Arbor Day Poster Contest. The theme for 2024 is: \u201cTrees Are Terrific\u2026in All Shapes and Sizes!\u201d to celebrate the importance of diversity of tree species within  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,1965],"tags":[2941,5239,3562,4050,4994],"class_list":["post-40770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","tag-arbor-day-poster-contest","tag-art-contest","tag-education","tag-forest-conservancy-district-boards","tag-maryland-forest-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40774,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40770\/revisions\/40774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}