JFK Transportation in Santa Ana holds a “Paint A Bus” contest with the theme “2020 Through the Eyes of a Student” and created wraps of the winning artwork for some of its buses.
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First place in the high school category went to Jazmin Suarez, a ninth grader at Saddleback High School in Santa Ana.
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Suarez included the message “Wear your mask so I can wear my backpack.”
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JFK Transportation acknowledged four entries with Honorable Mentions, placing wraps for two entries on one bus and two on another (those appear in the next photo). Shown here is Mission Viejo High School (Calif.) senior Melissa Gjokaj’s breathtaking drawing of a mountain (left), and Yorba Linda (Calif.) High School tenth grader Sophia Hsu’s depiction of a young artist (herself, perhaps?) at work.
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Neryah Atuatasi, an eighth grader at Fitz Intermediate School in Santa Ana who took the top spot in the middle school category, shared a vision of hope.
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There were two first place winners in the elementary school category. Karina Ramirez, who attends fifth grade at Monte Vista Elementary School in La Crescenta, Calif., added natural beauty to the bus with a flower.
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Meanwhile, Valeria Silva, a fifth grader at Jackson Elementary School in Santa Ana, created a colorful “Good side/Bad side” concept — the “good” being family and friends and the “bad” being the coronavirus — in her entry.
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On the second bus are two powerful images from Fremont, Calif.-based Irvington High School eleventh grader Helen Ngo and Santa Ana, Calif.’s Orange County School of the Arts tenth grader Sergio Hernandez.
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