Local Student Wins National Art Contest for "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day"

Facilities management company C&W Services held a “Someone I Love Works at C&W Services” Art Contest for the children of their employees, where children drew what they thought their parents did for a living in lieu of coming to work because the environment is unsafe or unsuitable for kids.

The grand prize winner, Emma Martini of Danbury, Connecticut, made a drawing of her father, Daryl, an account manager who helps run the facilities for the global pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. Emma’s drawing depicted her father helping to deliver medicine to people around the world.

Emma, 8, won a $100 Amazon gift card, a trophy, art supply backpack and a $1,000 donation in funding to her elementary school – Mill Ridge Primary School in Danbury.

View the short video of the Martinis talking about the contest, the father and daughter presenting a check to the school, and the school principal discussing her appreciation and admiration for what Emma has accomplished.