Lake Union — Teachers and education superintendents encouraged students to participate in the annual Healthy Lifestyle Contest sponsored by the North American Division (NAD) health ministries and education departments and Listen and Winner magazines.

The Healthy Lifestyle Contest is for students in grades 1–12 from schools in the United States, Canada, and Bermuda. The purpose of the contest is to motivate students to learn health principles that will benefit them for a lifetime and to apply their learning to benefit others in their community. Cash incentive awards are made available to winning students and their schools.

Student entries were first judged at the local conferences. Appealing to a variety of creative learning styles, judged categories included: posters, essays, videos, and computer-generated presentations. Winning entries selected were then submitted to the NAD Health Ministries department for review and winner selection.

The Lake Union was well represented in the final round of judging this year at the NAD. Lake Union winning entries came from three schools: Fox Valley Seventh-day Adventist School (FVS), Wis., Gobles Junior Academy (GJA), Mich. and Great Lakes Adventist Academy (GLAA), Mich.

When the judging was completed, over $4,000 in prize money was returned to Lake Union students and schools as a result of the students' creativity in the contest.

Lake Union winning entries were:

Christy Boothby, 3rd Prize, Grades 5-8 (GJA)

Tim Sanders, 2nd Prize, Grades 9-12 (GJA)

Audrey Briseno, 1st Prize, Grades 9-12 (GLAA)

“Sugartime” Skit, 3rd Prize, Grades 9-12 (GJA)

Eli Tscheech, 3rd Prize, Grades 1-4 (FVS)

Jessica Axe, 3rd Prize, Grades 5-8 (GJA)

Jerrica Goodrich, 2nd Prize, Grades 9-12 (GJA)

Matthew Mihm, 3rd Prize, Grades 9-12 (GJA)

Staci Shepard, 1st Prize, Grades 9-12 (CJA)

For more information about the contest, visit http://nadadventist.org/hm/shlc.

Diane Thurber, Lake Union Herald managing editor