Two students from
James Weldon Johnson College Preparatory Middle, Chelsea Claverie and Maryam Shabbir, are top winners in the National Poison Prevention Week Council’s annual poster contest. Both students created the posters while they were students at the school under the director of their art teacher Margaret Cella.
“We are very pleased with Chelsea and Maryam for their winning posters,” stated Dr. Jay L. Schauben, director of the Florida/USVI Poison Information Center-Jacksonville. “Their work stresses the importance of bringing awareness to the dangers of poisonings.”
The National Poison Prevention Week Council, in conjunction with the American Association of Poison Control Centers, sponsors the poster contest each year as part of a year-round effort to educate communities about ways to prevent accidental poisonings in the home. Chelsea’s and Maryam’s posters were selected from entries that were submitted to local poison centers throughout the country. The contest is open to two groups: children ages eight and under, and children ages nine-13.
The council’s first place for the older division’s winning poster was created by Claverie and second-place went to Shabbir. Both posters were among entries from the Florida/USVI Poison Information Center-Jacksonville and, according to the council, creatively illustrate the message to prevent poisonings around the home.
National Poison Prevention Week, the third week in March each year, is a week nationally designated to highlight the dangers of poisonings and how to prevent them. For additional information on the poster contest and steps the public can take to help prevent accidental poisonings, visit the council’s website at
www.poisonprevention.org.
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