Water District honors poster contest winners

The Hicksville Water District (HWD) recently held an awards ceremony to celebrate the 24 winners of the District’s 2023 Water Conservation Poster Contest. An annual tradition in the District, the poster contest is held for Hicksville’s elementary school students, with more than 250 students submitting posters this year. This contest allows students to learn about the importance of water conservation, as well as the necessity of protecting our sole-source aquifer. Water is our most precious natural resource, and this contest allows students to express their own creativity as well as inspiring them to begin conserving water ahead of the very usage-heavy summer irrigation season.

“We look forward to our Water Conservation Poster Contest every year, as we always enjoy seeing our community’s students cultivate an appreciation for the importance of conserving our drinking water,” said HWD Chairman William Schuckmann. “With more than 250 posters submitted to us this year, the enthusiasm of our youth has never been on fuller display. With such strong interest in the protection of water source expressed by these students, we are sure that our water will be in good hands as the future unfolds.”

The winners of the 2023 poster contest are as follows:

Grade 2

• Madison Vuong- Fork Lane Elementary

• Rihanna Jassi- Fork Lane Elementary

• Ethan Contreras- Fork Lane Elementary

• Huda Bilal- Fork Lane Elementary

• Aryahi Mukherjee- Fork Lane Elementary

• Liam Cocuy- Fork Lane Elementary

Grade 3

• Haileigh Craft- Fork Lane

Elementary

• Royce Zuniga- Fork Lane

Elementary

• Shlok Patel- Woodland Elementary

• Presley Wagner- East Street

Elementary

• Malia Samuel- East Street

Elementary

• Rukiyah Barakzai- East Street Elementary

Grade 4

• Ashwin Kafle- East Street Elementary

• Kara Baroni- East Street Elementary

• Abigail Sand- East Street Elementary

• Ryan Gonzales- East Street Elementary

• Iman Mashriqi- East Street Elementary

• Kabir Singh Takhtar- Fork Lane Elementary

Grade 5

• Gianna Rivera Romero- Lee Avenue Elementary

• Elina Lew- Woodland Elementary

• Keren Praveen- Fork Lane

Elementary

• Sadie Wagner- East Street

Elementary

• Kimberly Garay OchoaWoodland Elementary

• Carla Fernandez- Old Country Road Elementary

The winners are determined after deliberation from the Board of Commissioners on creativity, design and overall message of water conservation. The 2023 Poster Contest winning posters can be viewed on the Hicksville Water District’s website at www.hicksvillewater.org/hicksville-water-district-holds-awards-ceremony-for2023-poster-contest-winners/.