Schools

Glen Cove Students Named Winners in Poster Contest

The students' posters will now compete with those of other students from Long Island.

Congratulations to Finley Middle School sixth-graders Ellie Knobel and Suleyma Lazo Velasquez on being named winners in the Shanti Fund poster contest.

The contest's theme this year was “peace and wisdom.”

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According to the Shanti Fund website, the organization and its volunteers have been actively promoting peace through education for more than 12 years.

The students’ posters will move on to compete with those of other students from Long Island.

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Story by Syntax, Photo courtesy of the Glen Cove City School District: Pictured (from left): Finley Middle School art teacher Michele McLoughlin, sixth-graders Ellie Lobel and Suleyma Lazo Velasquez, and art teacher Torie Zimmerman.

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