Water conservation awareness
Hillsborough County Water Resources and the City of Tampa Water Department announced the winners of this year’s Drop Savers Poster Contest. The contest was open to all Hillsborough County Public Schools and private kindergarten to 12th grade students.
Students had the opportunity to design a poster about water conservation, which helped them to understand how important it is to conserve vital and limited water resources.
Each poster depicted a water conservation idea, in slogan form, drawing form, or both.
The public schools of the first-place winners will be awarded bottle-filling water stations and up to 100 reusable water bottles.
The first-place winning posters also were submitted in the American Water Works Association’s Florida Section competition.
These area students were recognized:
- Niam Kumar, Carrollwood Day School, first place Division 1 (kindergarten and first grade)
- Tulasi Akula, Tampa Palms Elementary, first place, Division 3 (fourth and fifth grade)
- Peter Meriga, Benito Middle, second place, Division 4 (sixth to eighth grade)
- Sophia Cui, Liberty Middle, third place, Division 4 (sixth to eighth grade)
- Edgar Gomez Mendez, Freedom High School, second place, Division 5 (ninth to 12th grade)
Future Business Leaders
Steinbrenner High School’s FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) students recently attended the 2023 State Leadership Conference in Orlando. The school had eight state competitor events place in the competition — the most in Steinbrenner history, according to a news release.
Student winners are:
- Rahul Boggavarapu: Advertising
- Kartikeye Gupta: Cyber Security
- Louis Li: Impromptu Speaking
- Katrina Lippert: Economics
- Emmanuel Medina: UX Design
- Shauri Nyshadham: Intro to Business Procedures
- Jacob Salmon, Tabur Salmon: Computer Game & Simulation Programming
- Ryan Sumiantoro, Alyssa Hayman: Mobile Application Development
Steinbrenner’s team advisor, Allison Cuffaro, was inducted into the FBLA Adviser Hall of Fame.
