Ten high school student artists from across Texas gathered today
in Austin along with their families and teacher sponsors for the
Drive a Clean Machine Logo Contest awards ceremony hosted by state
Sen. Kip Averitt (R-Waco), Chairman of the Senate Committee on
Natural Resources.
The Drive a Clean Machine Logo Contest invited public, private
and home-schooled students in grades 9-12 to design a logo for the
state's Drive a Clean Machine program. This program seeks to bring
non-attainment areas back into compliance with federal
environmental guidelines by partnering with qualifying Texans who
want to purchase a new car and help clean-up our air. Clean air is
a major source of concern for all Texans, and mobile emissions
produced by old cars are the primary source of NOx (the pollutant
we must reduce to meet federal ozone standards) in our state's
non-attainment areas.
The stakeholder-based Drive a Clean Machine Logo Contest Awards
Committee chose the following top ten winners from the over four
hundred logos submitted by Texas students:
| Place |
Student |
Teacher |
School |
City |
| 1 |
Justin Bennett |
Julie Weatherly |
Belton High School |
Belton |
| 2 |
Leah Snow |
Rick Harris |
Glen Rose High School |
Glen Rose |
| 3 |
Emilee Hefflefinger |
Sara Beth Smetzer |
Highland Park High School |
Dallas |
| 4 |
Nathan Kocmoud |
Kimberly Kocmoud |
Kocmoud Homeschool Academy |
College Station |
| 5 |
Murphy La |
Jennifer Demick |
Mansfield Summit High School |
Arlington |
| 6 |
Eduardo Alvarez |
Carol Beth Torrance |
McCallum High School |
Austin |
| 7 |
Matthew Kocmoud |
Kimberly Kocmoud |
Kocmoud Homeschool Academy |
College Station |
| 8 |
J.T. Lanier |
Connie Vallie |
Flour Bluff High School |
Corpus Christi |
| 9 |
Daniel Lopez |
Cresencio Munoz |
Moises E. Molina High School |
Dallas |
| 10 |
Alex Earle |
Carol Beth Torrance |
McCallum High School |
Austin |
Mr. Justin Bennett of Belton, Texas, was the 1st Place winner,
and his logo will be used in the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality's efforts to market the Drive a Clean Machine program. Mr.
Bennett, as well as the other students in the top six were awarded
monetary prizes for their designs. The top six winners' teacher
sponsors also received a monetary prize.
To learn more about the Drive a Clean Machine program, please
visit www.driveacleanmachine.org.
For more information, contact Josh Meeks at (512) 463-0122.
Digital versions of the top ten logos available upon request.
