Jefferson County elementary student takes top prize in watershed protection advocacy contest
SHENANDOAH JUNCTION, W.Va. (DC News Now) — Though most schools have started its summer break, one sixth-grader in West Virginia’s eastern panhandle has distinguished herself as a champion of the environment.
This is the 9th year West Virginia American Water has brought the watershed protection contest to Mountain State Schools. The contest asked elementary school students to write one paragraph and draw pictures about protecting the local watershed.
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“It was important to me,” contest winner, Isabella Ramirez, said. “Because the planet is where I live and keeping our watershed clean is just very important.”
Ramirez describes the picture she drew of a young girl for her winning entry.
“She’s recycling,” Ramirez explained. “Not throwing trash into the ocean and the rivers.”
Ramirez’s teacher, Krista Holler, was proud of her student’s win.
“She showed her passion for saving the watershed in her essay and artwork,” Holler said.
T.A. Lowery Elementary School principal, Kristen Martin, said Ramirez’s was a great writer and artist.
“She shows her passion for saving the watershed,” Martin said. “Isabella is an all around great student.”
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Ramirez said when it rains, it makes the trash go awry, which is something that keeps her up at night.
“I never know where it goes so I’m thinking it goes to a watershed,” she said.
In the future, Ramirez wants to be a teacher at T.A. Lowery Elementary School, she said.
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