Meet Winner of 1st Earth Day Canada Art Contest

Photo Courtesy TD Friends of the Environment Foundation & Earth Day Canada“We regularly hear from teachers about the importance students place on protecting the environment, so we developed the Art Contest with Earth Day Canada to engage students and instill a lifelong passion for protecting nature.”

So says the executive director of TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, explaining why her group teamed up with Earth Day Canada to create a nationwide art contest for kids in grades one through eight.

Meet the winner: 7th grader Sophia Maltese, standing next to her expressive panting of a tree. Sophia won last November, beating out 4,000 other kids.

To learn more about this contest, and to see works by other kids that were recognized, go to the contest site.