Ride-On Bus System's Mural Contest Open to Sixth-Grade Art Students

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For Immediate Release: October 28, 1999

Contact: Carolyn Biggins, 240-777-5800

Ride-On Bus System's Mural Contest
Open to Sixth-Grade Art Students

Sixth-grade art students from Montgomery County public and private schools are invited to enter the Ride-On bus system's 14th Annual Mural Contest, which is an integral part of the County's celebration of Earth Day and National Transportation Week.

The contest was created to help instill in the next generation of commuters an awareness of the importance of using buses, carpools, vanpools, and trains. The theme of this year's contest is "2000: Making A Clean Century!", commemorating the start of a new millennium and celebrating Ride-On's 25th Anniversary.

Entries must be created and completed by the students and should be no larger than 6-feet wide x 3-feet high. The murals should depict two or more people riding together in one or more forms of transportation and should also feature the hand-lettered word Ride-On.

The first place winner will receive an escorted field trip on a Ride-On bus. Past field trips have been taken to the Goddard Space Flight Center, U.S. Naval Academy, and the Air Show at Andrews Air Force Base. Specially printed bus cards showing the winning mural and the students who created the mural will be displayed on Ride-On buses in April, May, and June 2000.

All murals must be submitted no later than February 7, 2000, to the Division of Transit Services, 101 Monroe Street, 5th Floor, Rockville, MD 20850.

For more information, contact the marketing unit of the Division of Transit Services at 240-777-5800.

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