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SEARCHWe received 135 captivating entries from 52 pupil transportation officials and yellow bus enthusiasts for the ninth edition of our Photo Contest. Here are this year’s winners, runners-up and several noteworthy entries, as chosen by SBF’s editors.
(To view photos from the 2012 contest, click here. To view photos from the 2011 contest, click here.)
Lisa Leavell of Marietta (Ga.) City Schools submitted this winning entry in which Felicia Lee, safety trainer for Marietta City Schools, gives a driver a thumbs-up during this year’s bus safety competition.
Rebecca Hatfield of Greenville (Ohio) City Schools submitted this winning entry. The shot shows school transportation in action as students leave their buses in the morning and head to what was, at the time the photo was taken, Greenville City Schools’ South Elementary School. The campus then became a middle school due to district reorganization.
Winner: Canandaigua (N.Y.) City School District. Youngsters Leah Hoeksema and Drew Williamee are taking their first bus ride on Kindergarten Orientation Day at Canandaigua City School District. “Kids are brought into school with their parents prior to the start of the school year, and they receive a tour of the building and a bus safety lesson,” Director of Transportation Scott Goble says. The photo was taken by Community Relations Coordinator Andy Thomas. “I wanted to capture the excitement and anticipation the children had,” Thomas says. “I asked these two for a smile and they both leaned forward spontaneously.”
Honorable Mention: Jolie Haines, Durham School Services
Lubbock, Texas. When a tornado struck Joplin, Mo., in 2011, the transportation team at Durham School Services’ Lubbock, Texas, terminal used this bus to carry donations of food, water and other supplies to the area. “Then we stayed the rest of the week to help with distribution and clean up,” Haines says.
Honorable Mention: Al Lopez of Howard-Winneshiek Community School District, Cresco, Iowa. Lopez took this photo while on a field trip to the Iowa State Capitol.
Cathy Sykes of
Forsyth County Schools in Cumming, Ga., submitted this photo that was chosen as an honorable mention. The students in the picture washing the bus are Forsyth County Schools Piney Grove Middle School students volunteering to wash buses during their “Great Day of Giving” community-wide service day.
Another honorable mention went to Santos Gomez of Comanche (Texas) Independent School District. Gomez is often on his porch drinking coffee when this bus passes by his house in the morning during the school year. “I was inspired by a beautiful, cool, clear spring morning to take this picture,” he explains.
Noteworthy Entry: Irene DeTella, Septran Inc., Plainfield, Ill. Corn isn’t the only thing that’s grown in Illinois! (DeTella says there is a small road leading up to the area where the bus is parked.)
This shot from Kathryn Humphries of Lincoln County School District #1 in Diamondville, Wyo., was chosen as a noteworthy entry. “One of our drivers is a hand sanitizer junkie, so when our mechanic went to work on her bus, we dressed him up in surgical garb as a joke on the driver,” Humphries explains. “She loved it.”
A final noteworthy entry was sent to us by Scott Thorner of Star and Strand Transportation Inc. in Troy, N.Y. In this photo, a bus monitor and drivers perform a New York state physical performance test.
Honorable Mention: Gary Putman of Frederick (Md.) County Public Schools. The photo was taken on Old Annapolis Road near Linganore High School in Frederick, Md. “I was early on my run, so I pulled over to enjoy the view to let the clock catch up with me and snapped the photo,” Putman says.
Kodie Shamrock of
Shamrock Transportation Service in Grand Island, N.Y., submitted this photo, which was selected as an honorable mention. “The photo was taken in October 2012 just as the leaves were changing,” Shamrock says. “I was working underneath the front end doing an inspection of the steering components, and while I was coming out from underneath, I looked up from that angle and thought it looked photo worthy, so I grabbed my camera and went back to take a picture.”
Elaine Darby of the
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in
Raleigh, N.C., submitted this photo, which was selected as a noteworthy entry. Ross McClellan, a driver trainer in Gaston County, N.C., measures the distance from the stop line in the 2013 North Carolina State School Bus Driving Competition.
Mike Stiles of First Student Inc. in Calgary, Alberta, sent us this noteworthy entry. Pictured are two Cardinal Coach Lines (now First Student Calgary) school buses in 2007 on Highway 93 near Jasper, Alberta.
Christopher Smith of
GO Riteway in Milwaukee submitted this noteworthy entry. “I was driving some students to a basketball game, I dropped them off and drove up the road a little ways, parked in a church parking lot and caught the sun
setting in the mirror of my school bus,” Smith says of
capturing this shot.
