AAA Traffic Safety Poster & Video Contest Winners Honored

GARDEN CITY, NY – AAA Northeast has announced that 12 students from Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Rockland, Nassau and Westchester have won the top prizes in its annual Traffic Safety Poster & Video Contest. New York had the Grand Prize winner overall from the five participating states.

Donna Galasso, Assistant Director, Traffic Safety, AAA Northeast, presented the students with plaques and monetary awards in a ceremony held in Mineola, New York on Thursday, June 6th.

AAA’s contest gives students the opportunity to demonstrate proper skills and behavior in regard to pedestrian, bike and school bus safety, seat belt and child restraint use and safe driving practices. They illustrated an assigned safety theme in poster format at the elementary level and in video or poster format at the high school level.

Students within the AAA Northeast, New York region submitted over 600 entries depicting traffic safety slogans. Each design was judged on originality, execution, visual relationship and effectiveness of communicating a traffic safety message.

Photo: Winners of the 2019 AAA Traffic Safety Poster & Video Contest: (From left to right, back row) Joy Huang (Grand Award); Mia Aponte (3rd Place 9-12th grade); Presenter, Donna Galasso, Assistant Director of Traffic Safety, AAA; Hannah Jung (2nd Place 9-12th grade); Justin Saltiel & Matviy Zhachek (3rd Place video); Jack Pan (2nd Place video); (Front row) Bella Xue (2nd Place 5-8th grade); Declan Driscoll (1st Place K-4th grade); Madison Mo, accepting for her sister, Jocelyn Mo (1st Place 5-8th Grade). The awards were presented at a luncheon in Mineola on June 6th.

AAA Northeast is a not-for-profit auto club with 66 offices in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire and New York, providing more than 5.7 million local AAA members with travel, insurance, finance, and auto-related services.