Students Win Bus Safety Poster Contests

Four Naugatuck students won field trip vouchers for their schools after excelling in a bus safety poster contest.

The school district, in cooperation with Student Transportation of America, held a poster contest over the past month for the K-6 students at all the elementary and intermediate schools.  

The theme was “I see the driver, the driver sees me,” said STA Operations Manager Ron Tymula. The students could create posters that fit this slogan, and the schools’ principals and a board of officials reviewed them all before picking the winners, Tymula said.

The four winners were:

• Mia Grella, Grade 2 student at Central Avenue Elementary School.
• Lauren Quarels, Grade 4 student at Salem Elementary School.
• Gianna Viele, Grade 5 student at Cross Street Intermediate School.
• John Cordeiro, Grade 2 student at Western Elementary School.

Grella, Quarels and Viele won $250 field vouchers, while the grand prize winner, Cordeiro, won a $1,000 field voucher to his school.

“He has modeled safe bus behavior, which is what the message of his poster was,” said Western Elementary School Principal Melissa D’Alessandro.