T-Shirt ContestT-Shirt Contest
Last Updated (Thursday, 15 October 2009 10:30)
Teens! Kids!
Help design next year’s T-shirts or a Crop poster. Bring your design with you to the CROP Walk or create a design in the ART CONTEST area when you finish walking.
If your design is chosen, you’ll get a free T-shirt.
Many youths have taken part over the years in the Art Contest in the parish hall, with the winning design appearing on next year’s new T-shirt.
2009’s winners are Yifan Zhang and Alyssa MacNeill, both 17, from Acton
The past winners are:
- 2008 Emma Eliason, age 12, Acton
- 2007 Bryan LeBlanc, age 14, Bedford
- 2006 Nathan LeBlanc, age 12, Bedford
- 2005 Georgia Guttadauro, age 12, Carlisle
- 2004 Whitney Sharp, Age 17, Concord
- 2003 Annie Peterson, Concord
- 2002 Nicholas Cunkelman, Age 12, Acton
- 2001 Courtney Callahan, Age 13, Acton
- 2000 Bonnie Petersen, Age 10, Concord
- 1998 Chris Plating, Age 13, Greer, S.C.
- 1997 David Ballard, Age 11, Concord
- 1996 Hawley Tremblay, Age 9, Concord
- 1994 Ben and Becky DeMott, Ages 12 and 5, Maynard
- 1991 Mary Alice Barron, Age 11, Concord
- 1990 Anne-Marie Wulfsberg, Age 13, Concord
- 1989 Susie Corke, Age 14, Concord
On Sunday, October 18, walkers in the area’s 29th CROP Walk for the Hungry will be wearing T-shirts designed by 17-year-old Acton teen artists Yifan Zhang and Alyssa MacNeill.
Last October these two good friends collaborated on a unique T-shirt design for the CROP Walk while enjoying the cookies and music offered to walkers who had completed the walk. Their design featured vegetables, fruits, and a crossword in which letter tiles spelled out “2009” and “CROP Walk.” The teenagers did not know until late this summer that their design had taken first place in the contest. This year Alyssa and Yifan will be helping to conduct the art contest after the walk.
Yifan Zhang and Alyssa MacNeill are in the senior class at Acton-Boxboro Regional High School. They learned about the CROP Walk through their school’s Community Outreach group. Under the guidance of faculty advisor Jodi Chu, this extra-curricular organization offers students opportunities to participate in the CROP Walk and in other community service efforts. Through ABCO Community Outreach, Alyssa and Yifan have also participated in the Boston Walk for Hunger and in a Halloween walk for canned goods for the hungry.
These two young people have known each other both in school and through their shared ballet classes since fourth grade. They have danced together in “The Nutcracker” and in other ballet shows over the years. When time allows, Yifan plays the flute and Alyssa the clarinet. Both girls are also active in their school’s Envirothon Club, which participates in knowledge competitions with other schools on science and ecology.
