Metro News Release

For immediate release: March 7, 2005

Local Students Encouraged to Enter Metro’s Annual Poster Contest

Posters to Depict the "Take Pride in Your Ride" Theme

"Take Pride in Your Ride" is the theme for this year’s Metro Student Poster Contest and students from across the region are encouraged to enter.

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. Any student under the age of 21 before the contest deadline of April 22 can enter the contest.

Students must follow the guidelines which are available at Metro’s Web site at http://www.wmata.com/metrokids/contest_winners.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 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. A panel of Metro employees will select one poster as the Poster of the Year. The winning students receive U.S. savings bonds as prizes. The Poster of the Year 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 the winners, their parents and teachers at an awards ceremony on May 13 at Metro headquarters.

For a complete copy of the guidelines for the poster contest, visit http://www.wmata.com/metrokids/contest_winners.cfm.

News release issued on March 7, 2005.