Metro News Release

For immediate release: February 26, 2004

Local Students Encouraged to Enter Metro’s Annual Poster Contest

Posters to Depict the " Metro Matters to Me" Theme

The Annual Metro Student Poster Contest is underway for primary through high school students at public, private, parochial, and home schools in the metropolitan area. The contest, open to any student under the age of 21 before the contest deadline of April 23, has as its theme " Metro Matters to Me." Students must follow the guidelines which are available at Metro’s web site at http://www.wmata.com/metrokids/default.cfm or by calling 202-962-2778. More than 1,000 contest booklets are being distributed to area schools. These booklets are also available at the Metro Center sales office, the Pentagon sales office and in the lobby of Metro headquarters, 600 5th Street, N.W. A panel of local judges from the fields of education, transportation, the arts, advertising, and the media will select winners from three jurisdictions -- the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia -- in four categories in each jurisdiction: primary, elementary, junior and senior. U.S. savings bonds will be awarded as prizes, and a panel of Metro employees will select one poster as the Poster of the Year. This poster will be displayed in the Metrorail system and on Metrobuses. All winning entries will be displayed in the fall at Metro Center. Metro will honor winners, their parents, and teachers at an awards ceremony on May 14 at Metro headquarters. For a complete copy of the guidelines for the poster contest, visit http://www.wmata.com/metrokids/default.cfm.

News release issued on February 26, 2004.