MVCEAB Announces Logo Contest Winner

By NICK YAMASHITA

The Progress

The Moapa Valley Community Education Advisory Board (MVCEAB) has announced the winner of a contest to design a new logo for the organization. The winner, William Anderson, was presented with a scholarship check for $400 on Monday, May 17 by officers of the MVCEAB along with MVHS Principal Hal Mortenson.

“We needed a logo and we wanted to do something to help a student out,” said MVCEAB President Wendy Mulcock. “So we held a contest to benefit the winning student.”

The contest had four criteria on which entrants were judged. These included professional appearance, accurate depiction of the MVCEAB mission, overall visual appearance, and the creative use of an “anchor” theme.

The contest was opened to all schools in Moapa Valley. “We got fewer submissions than we were hoping, but we had really good submissions in the eight submitted and we found the perfect logo for us,” said Mulcock.

William Anderson, a freshman at MVHS submitted the winning design. “Crazy! I never thought I would win!” Anderson said. “It was an extra credit assignment from my art teacher, Ms. Swanson, and I really wanted to do it.”

William’s parents Ryan and Michelle Anderson both commented on how much their son had wanted to do the contest.

“He initiated the work, did research, asked his brother for help in learning Adobe programs, and went to work on it,” said Michelle Anderson. “He was extremely motivated to do it.”

“He was really adamant about it and for it to be done on time,” Ryan Anderson added. “He made all the decisions pertaining to the design. I am just grateful he tries new things.”

Mulcock was excited for the new logo and letterhead to be put into use.
“This perfectly fits our purpose and our desires for the logo,” she said. “We even found another submission that had a motto that we really liked. So we are using that motto of ‘Being Anchored in Education’.”

William Anderson plans on doing more design and art classes next year. “This contest has given me something new I enjoy,” he said.

MVCEAB is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring better education for the children of Moapa Valley. The board’s function is to provide community input to the CCSD Board of Trustees.

Over the past year, MVCEAB has been focused on advocating for local students to have as much in-person instruction as possible through the pandemic. The board was instrumental in local students being the only ones in CCSD to return to school in-person with a hybrid learning model last fall. The board also successfully advocated for local schools to be the first to come back to a 5-day schedule this spring.

Recently, the MVCEAB has hosted community training sessions on suicide awareness and planned the Graduation Ceremonies for the Class of 2021. The board has also been involved in decisions regarding sex education curriculum, policies regarding the privacy rights of the majority of students, criteria for graduation and more.