AIDS affects everyone, and everyone needs to help eradicate it, according to Samuel Choi, a senior at Skyline High School.
Choi is among this year's 12 winners in the HIV/AIDS Awareness Poster Contest, sponsored by the State Office of Education, the Utah AIDS Foundation and KUTV.Choi's work, which was selected as the first-place high school entry, carrying a $100 prize, features a wall with graffiti spelling AIDS. A painter in the corner of the work is removing the graffiti. The entry says "AIDS Isn't Over Until We All Help."
"Gangs affect everyone, and we need to come together. Well, it is that way with AIDS, too," Choi said.
The first-place junior high winner was Cole Naegle, an eighth-grader at Cache Valley Learning Center, Logan. Winning top elementary school honors was Taylor Stapley, Stewart Elementary, Centerville.
The winners were picked from more than 700 entries. Copies of the first-place work will be printed and distributed to schools next spring, said Jacqueline Morasco, HIV education specialist at the State Office of Education.