Richland One students capture 39 awards in the S.C. State Fair student art show

Richland One students won 39 awards in the annual S.C. State Fair student art show.

Winners were: Kindergarten: Kyra Miller, Hyatt Park Elementary; 3-D Fair Award; and Charasse Smith, Hyatt Park, John James Audubon Merit Award; First Grade: Joanna Booth, Satchel Ford Elementary, 3-D Fair Award; Arden Phillips, Brennen Elementary, John Biggers Merit Award; and Quinton Lewis, Brennen Elementary, Tarleton Blackwell Merit Award; Second Grade: Sarah Hipp, Brennen Elementary, 2-D, Fair Award; Cameron Joshi, Brennen Elementary and Guthrie McQueen, Satchel Ford Elementary, 3-D Fair Award; Vanderbilt Singleton, S. Kilbourne Elementary, Marc Chagall Merit Award and Shyheim Myers, Watkins-Nance Elementary; Pierre-Auguste Cot Merit Award; and Third Grade: Byron Frederick, Mill Creek Elementary, Henri De Toulousse-Lautrec Award.

Fourth-grade winners were: Maurice Poole, John P. Thomas Elementary and Sequoia Hampton, Brockman Elementary, 3-D Fair Award; Victoria Holmes, E.E. Taylor Elementary, Raoul Dufy Merit Award; Patrick Burnett, S. Kilbourne Elementary, William Dyce Merit Award; Sally Hall, Brennen Elementary, William Edmonson Merit Award; Chase Coward, Satchel Ford Elementary, Toni Elkins Merit Award, and Demia Sanders, Meadowfield Elementary, Minnie Evans Merit Award. Winning fifth-grade students included: Eric Washington, John P. Thomas, 3-D Fair Award and James Newman, 3-D Fair Award; and Ray-Kelle Preston, Satchel Ford Elementary, Vernon Grant Merit Award.

Sixth-grade winners were: Melvin Coleman, W.A. Perry Middle, Winslow Homer Merit Award; Ellison Sharpe, Hand Middle, William H. Johnson Merit Award; and Tommy Alexander, Hand Middle, Malvin Gray Johnson Merit Award.

The seventh-grade winner was George Zourzoukis of Crayton Middle, who received the Guy Lipscomb Merit Award. Eighth-grade winners included: Anthony Lewis, Gibbes Middle, and Toni Moreland, Crayton Middle, 2-D Fair Award; Beth Dallas, Crayton Middle, 3-D Fair Award; Damien Brooks, Gibbes Middle, Edward Munch Merit Award; and Mark Carter, Crayton Middle, Claes Oldenburg Merit AwardA.C. Flora High students captured all the ninth-grade awards. They included: Aimee Gunter, first place, 3-D Fair Award; Nick Barnett, Pablo Picasso Merit Award; and Shuhila Shriskanda, Lucelle Road Merit Award.

Roxabel Pavez of A.C. Flora High won the Giulio Romano Merit Award for tenth grade. Dreher High student Eric Helms won third place, 2-D Fair Award, for eleventh grade.

Twelfth-grade winners included: Lindsey Bell, third place, 3-D Fair Award, A.C. Flora High; Liz Harvie, Dreher High, Paolo Uccello Merit Award; Mary Foley, A.C. Flora High, Vincent Van Gogh Merit Award; and Nathaniel Dent, A.C. Flora, Rembrandt Van Rijn Merit Award.