It’s Our Turn Youth Contest winners!
CEAL’s It’s Our Turn contest invited youth and young adults between ages of 14 to 25 to share their creative take on a health message about COVID-19 vaccination, wearing a mask, or another pandemic-related health effect on youth. There were 12 winners selected by Arizona community members –– each winning a $250 gift card.
Congratulations to the It’s Our Turn Youth Contest winners and all who submitted their creative work to spread a positive health message about COVID-19.
| PSA winners | |||||||
| Ayomide Oshlaja Age 16 |  | Robin Hentges Age 20 |  |
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| Toolkit winners | |||||||
| Lydia Pastore Age 17 |  | Anonymous Age 20 |  |
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| Visual Arts winners—under 16 years old | |||||||
| Sophia Lin Age 14 |  | Anonymous Age 14 Location: Flagstaff |  |
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| Visual Arts winners—16 years and above | |||||||
| Aidan Lin Age 16 |  | Taylor Schoaf Age 20 |  |
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| Written Word winners | |||||||
| Amaya Pablo
|  | Anthony Zapata
| "Be the Hero" As children, we aspire and dream, Of being the ones in capes and masks. A big letter across our chest, Fighting crime, obsessed with doing good. We start to mature and that fire, It dies, extinguished onyx smoke. Realizing that heroes only exist in fiction, We grow up, a conviction that snuffed our spark. But a hero’s story never ends, They get back up and fight. Hope, it drives them Until they succumb to the villain. Our heroes are overworked and tired, Fighting endlessly without question. And their enemy is vicious Infecting everyone with malicious intent. Now common for hero story arcs Comes the distrust. The society sold that our heroes Work for false pharos, hiding secrets. Now normally would be the comeback, Where the heroes defeat all odds. But time we don’t have Now is our time to fight the war. It’s time to become the superheroes we always wanted to be, By putting on our masks. |
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| Expert Picks | |||||||
| Rayevin Roos
|  | Venezia Figueroa
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