Thank you to all the students across Kentucky who participated in the #iCANendthetrend 2024 art challenge and congratulations to our winners and honorable mentions. Below are our winners, their artwork, and a statement about their artwork. We want to recognize these students' creativity and unique artwork that promotes youth vaping prevention and empowerment across Kentucky. Check back here in January of 2025 for more details about the second annual art challenge!
My goal was to make this art piece positively impactful on others' lives. The chains represent how an addiction can hold you down and affect your mental and physical health deeply. There is faded wording that says “quit now” on the side as well, which shows how addiction can cloud your judgment.
The hardest challenge in making the art piece was finding a way to picture the dangers of vaping, while also making it original and creative, and it was definitely a fun experience to have.
Hey, I’m Ciara! I’m a junior at Pikeville High School! I wrote “Whispers of Mist” as an anti-vaping piece. Nicotine is highly addictive and harms both the brain and the lungs. With each person who takes a stand, we are one person closer to ending the trend.
I really loved this challenge! My passion is playing sports and being active. It's important to me to fuel my body to be able to perform my best. This challenge helped me to learn more about vaping and how bad the side effects are. I also want to be involved in teaching my peers how bad it is for their health. I hope this challenge will help educate kids my age and inspire them to not start vaping at all.
Thank you for choosing me as the winner. I am very blessed. I think vaping is a very serious topic that is not mentioned enough so I was very glad that I got to participate in this art contest. It provided me with a way to express how threatening vaping can be throughout my talents with art.
I have been working on this art every single chance I got, and I’m very glad it paid off in the end.
I really loved this challenge! My passion is playing sports and being active. It's important to me to fuel my body to be able to perform my best. This challenge helped me to learn more about vaping and how bad the side effects are. I also want to be involved in teaching my peers how bad it is for their health. I hope this challenge will help educate kids my age and inspire them to not start vaping at all.
I really enjoyed creating this project, I think it's important to bring awareness to this topic. Vaping is relatively new, and we are far from knowing all of its side effects. Who knows what dangerous long-term effects we still aren't aware of, nobody should risk it, especially younger kids such as teens.
My name is Silas Fitz. I am 11 years old and am in 5th grade. I really enjoyed doing this project with my Health and Wellness teacher, Mrs. Ryan. I chose Mario to put in my poster because he is a good role model for kids.
