Cogdell Memorial Hospital kicked off American Heart Month with an Healthy Heart Art Contest.
Students from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade may participate in the contest. Tara Camp, Cogdell’s marketing coordinator, said entry forms had been dropped off at local schools. The competition is open to homeschooled children as well, but those students must pick up an entry form from the hospital or print one from Cogdell’s website, which can be found under the News and Events tab.
Each entry must name three ways in which a person can be heart healthy and draw a picture of someone doing one or more of the examples, and turn it in either to their teacher or directly to the hospital by the deadline, which has been extended due to the snow days that local schools saw.
Camp said that the deadline had been pushed back from its original Feb. 7, and tomorrow will now be the last day to submit entries.
Camp said that there would be three winners in each grade level, with first place winning a Cinema Snyder movie ticket, second place winning a free kids buffet from Pizza Inn, and third place winning a five dollar Sonic gift card.
In addition to those winners, Cogdell will give a gift basket to the teacher whose classes achieve the highest participation rate.
In conjunction with the art contest, in order to encourage children to be more active, Cogdell is sending Team Chip Tae Kwon Do Sweetwater, a martial arts demonstration team, to local schools to perform for the children. They will perform at each local campus throughout the day on Feb. 19.
Although this is only the second year that Cogdell will include such a performance as part of the art contest, Camp said that they hope to keep it going in contests to come.
“We try to find something that encourages kids to be active, so every year we’re always trying to see if we can find some other form of being healthy and getting them moving,” Camp said.
Winners will be announced by Feb. 20.
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