The drawings submitted to the Third Annual NA-YGN Drawing Contest were displayed during the 2001 ANS Winter Meeting in Reno (Nevada) from November 11th – 15th. This year we had over 250 drawings from six elementary schools in four states: SGA Elementary School (Georgia), Blakeney Elementary School (Georgia), Rosewood Elementary School (South Carolina), Mill Creek Elementary School (South Carolina), Springfield Park Elementary School (Virginia) and West Middleton Elementary School (Wisconsin). The jury, formed by Dr. Gail Marcus (ANS President), Mr. Ben Rouben (Canadian Nuclear Society), Mr. Dave Modeen (Nuclear Energy Institute), Dr. Gustavo Alonso (Mexican Nuclear Society) and Prof. Mike Corradini (Wisconsin Institute of Nuclear Systems), had a hard time choosing the three winners because there were too many cool drawings. After long deliberations, the winners are:

• First Prize ($100 USD Savings Bond, NA-YGN T-shirt & pin)
  Alice Leno, 10 years old
  West Middleton Elementary
  Middleton, Wisconsin
  Teacher: Ms. Lindberg, 5th grade
  

• Second Prize ($50 USD Savings Bond, NA-YGN T-shirt & pin)
  Marissa Vermillera, 9 years old
  Springfield Park Elementary
  Glen Allen, Virginia
  Teacher: Mrs. Yaffe, 4th grade
  

• Third Prize ($50 USD Savings Bond, NA-YGN T-shirt & pin)
  Le’Whitney Joetta Cooper, 9 years old
  Blakeney Elementary
  Waynesboro, Georgia
  Teacher: Mrs. Summers
  

In addition, the library of each winner’s school will receive a collection of books and reference materials on Nuclear Science and Technology. The award ceremonies will be held in January 2002.

NA-YGN wants to thank the Wisconsin Institute of Nuclear Systems for sponsoring the Third Annual NA-YGN Drawing Contest. We also want to thank all the members of the jury for their help and for going through a large number of drawings to pick the winner. Finally, we want to thank all the NA-YGN members that supported this effort by visiting the schools, talking to the kids and their teachers about Nuclear Science and Technology, and collecting more than 250 drawings. Thank you!!!!!

Contestants are aware that the North American Young Generation in Nuclear (NA-YGN) is a non-for-profit organization, one of whose goals is to communicate the public about the many ways in which nuclear science and technology have a positive impact in their daily lives and make important and valuable contributions to our society. By participating in the contest, contestants grant the North American Young Generation in Nuclear the right to print, publish, broadcast and use worldwide in any media now known or hereafter developed, including, without limitation, the World Wide Web, at any time or times, the drawing and the contestant?s name, as news or for public information and education on the benefits of the peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology without additional consideration or compensation. The drawing becomes the property of the North American Young Generation in Nuclear and will not be returned.