School announces winners of poster contest

By PAULA BARR\Daily Journal Staff Writer

Eighth graders at St. Paul Lutheran School in Farmington hope the Ides of March will mean for methamphetamine use what it meant for Julius Caesar.

Caesar's enemies killed him on March 15 to eliminate his reign. St. Paul students hope their International Schools CyberFair competition Web site ends the potential power of methamphetamine over those who don't realize its dangers.

The students have been working all year on their project, called Students Against Methamphetamine (S.A.M.). This week, they are finalizing their Web site entry ( www.stpaulgiants.com/sam ) by downloading the remaining research, interviews, online survey and results of their community effort. The project must be submitted by March 15.

The eighth graders also have announced the winners of their recent poster contest, which is part of the community outreach portion of the CyberFair project.

Farmington Middle School seventh grader Sonya Hahn was the grand prize winner and received a S.A.M. T-shirt and a $50 check.

The other winners were as follows (all are from St. Paul unless noted otherwise): Fifth grade - Rebekah Sutherland, Abigail Heberlie (St. Joseph); sixth grade - Alex Berghaus, Cheyenne Shields; seventh grade - Stevi Short, Gabe Wilson (Farmington Middle School); and eighth grade - Gabby Schultz (Farmington Middle School).

The Web site includes Power Point presentations that provide statistics on methamphetamine usage, photos of users that depict the degenerative effects on the body, and signs of methamphetamine use. The presentations discuss the effect of methamphetamine on families and the environment, and list the ingredients used to make the illegal drug.

One section points out the harm drug users and drug cookers do to their children, and discusses treatment for methamphetamine addiction.

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