Metro News Release

For immediate release: May 16, 2005

Metro announces winners of the 2005 Student Poster Contest

Posters depict the "Take Pride in Your Ride" theme

Metro announced the winners of its 2005 Student Poster Contest, including the Poster of the Year and Metro Employee Choice Award, at a reception for the student artists, their parents and teachers at Metro headquarters on Friday, May 13.

Haelim Oh, of Fairfax High School, created the 2005 Poster of the Year, which illustrates the contest theme, "Take Pride in Your Ride." Myong Sook Kim, of the J Art Studio in Annandale, VA, won the Metro Employee Choice Award.

Metro awarded four grand prizes, one each for the primary (grades K-3), elementary (grades 4-6), junior (grades 7-9) and senior (grades 10-12) divisions. First, second and third place prizes also were award to students in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia in the following categories in each jurisdiction: primary, elementary, junior and senior.

The Poster of the Year will be displayed in Metrorail cars and Metrobuses later this year. The Poster of the Year and grand prize posters will be showcased on the Metro Web site, www.MetroOpensDoors.com. In addition, all winning posters will be displayed at Metro Center in the fall once school reopens.

The winners are as follows:

POSTER OF THE YEAR 2005 Haelim Oh, Fairfax High School, Fairfax, VA

METRO EMPLOYEE CHOICE AWARD Myong Sook Kim, J Art Studio, Annandale, VA

GRAND PRIZE Primary - Erica Cooper, Joan Reynolds Art Studio, Derwood, MD Elementary - Suhyoung Choi, Churchill Road Elementary School, McLean, VA Junior - Jieun Kim, Walter Johnson High School, Rockville, MD Senior - Haelim Oh, Fairfax High School, Fairfax, VA

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Primary Division First Place, David Canales, Emery Elementary School, Northeast, DC Second Place, Samone Bailey, Meyer Elementary School, Northwest, DC Third Place, Jasmine Carrington, Emery Elementary School, Northeast, DC

Elementary Division First Place, Anthony Boatwright, W.B. Patterson Elementary School, Southwest, DC Second Place, Crystal Springer, Meyer Elementary School, Northwest, DC Third Place, Selena Guandique, Meyer Elementary School, Northwest, DC

Junior Division First Place, Maxwell Tibbits, St. Anselm’s Abbey School, Northeast, DC Second Place, Abijah Swingon Stokes, Stuart Hobson Middle School, Northeast, DC Third Place, Curtis Tillman, Kramer Middle School, Southeast, DC

Senior Division First Place, Ineoma Umez-Eronini, Benjamin Banneker High School, Northwest, DC Second Place, Erin Mellot, Cardozo High School, Northwest, DC Third Place, Amarachi Umez-Eronini, Woodrow Wilson High School, Northwest, DC

MARYLAND Primary Division First Place, Erica Cooper, Joan Reynolds Art Studio, Derwood, MD Second Place, Natalie Pogar, Joan Reynolds Art Studio, Derwood, MD Third Place, Antonio Jordan, Glen Haven Elementary School, Silver Spring, MD

Elementary Division First Place, Kristoffer Recio, Kenilworth Elementary School, Bowie, MD Second Place, J. Weston Hirschi, Joan Reynolds Art Studio, Derwood, MD Third Place, Jennifer Cooper, Joan Reynolds Art Studio, Derwood, MD

Junior Division First Place, Jieun Kim, Walter Johnson High School, Rockville, MD Second Place, Amanda Pursel, Joan Reynolds Art Studio, Derwood, MD Third Place, Anna Reynolds, Joan Reynolds Art Studio, Derwood, MD

Senior Division First Place, Avery Duffin, Magruder High School, Rockville, MD Second Place, Sarah Hwang, Northwest High School, Germantown, MD Third Place, Erik Schaeffer, Winston Churchill High School, Potomac, MD

VIRGINIA Primary Division First Place, Hannah Kang, Bull Run Elementary School, Centreville, VA Second Place, Anna Pak, J Art Studio, Annandale, VA Third Place, Charles Lee, J Art Studio, Annandale, VA Elementary Division First Place, Elizabeth Lim, Colvin Run Elementary School, Vienna, VA Second Place, Suhyoung Choi, Churchill Road Elementary School, McLean, VA Third Place, Sunhyung Chung, Spring Hill Elementary School, McLean, VA

Junior Division First Place, Jaeyoung Choi, Cooper Middle School, McLean, VA Second Place, Jessica Lee, Potomac School of McLean, McLean, VA Third Place, Elizabeth Ko, Franklin Middle School, Chantilly, VA

Senior Division First Place, Myong Sook Kim, J Art Studio, Annandale, VA Second Place, So Yeong Park, Centreville High School, Clifton, VA Third Place, Haelim Oh, Fairfax High School, Fairfax, VA

News release issued on May 16, 2005.