{"id":203512,"date":"2011-03-28T20:45:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T20:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2025-01-31T11:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:41:48","slug":"t2-center-announces-winners-of-the-2011-connecticut-roadway-safety-poster-contest-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/03\/t2-center-announces-winners-of-the-2011-connecticut-roadway-safety-poster-contest-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"T2 Center Announces Winners of the 2011 Connecticut Roadway Safety Poster Contest for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mary McCarthy<\/p>\n

The Connecticut Technology Transfer Center, a unit of the Connecticut Transportation Institute at UConn, announced the winners of the 2011 Connecticut Roadway Safety Poster Contest.<\/p>\n

First prize went to Carling Albrecht, a fifth grader at Tolland Intermediate School in Tolland.\u00a0 Receiving second-place honors was Kiley Griffin, a fifth grader at Lincoln School in New Britain, and third place went to Olivia McCarthy, a third grader from Tolland Intermediate School in Tolland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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1st Place<\/p>\n

Carling Albrect, 5th Grader at Tolland Intermediate School<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2nd Place<\/p>\n

Kiley Griffin, a fifth grader at Lincoln School<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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3rd Place<\/p>\n

Olivia McCarthy, a third grader from Tolland Intermediate School<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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The winners will formally receive their awards on April 5, 2011 at the 2011 Work Zone Safety Press Conference in Newington. The winning posters have also been submitted to the national contest sponsored by the American Traffic Safety Services Administration (ATSSA) and themed \u201cLife Behind the Cones and Barrels \u2013 How Roadway Workers Keep America Moving.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was the inaugural year for the contest in Connecticut. It aim is to focus children\u2019s attention on the men and women who work to maintain Connecticut\u2019s roadways every day.\u00a0 The entrants were asked to think about roadway safety and how road users can help to keep themselves and the people who maintain the roads safe.\u00a0 Concepts such as distracted driving, speeding and obeying signs were well represented among the entries.\u00a0 For more information on the contest and the Technology Transfer Center (T2 Center), please visit www.t2center.uconn.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Connecticut Technology Transfer Center, a unit of the Connecticut Transportation Institute at UConn, announced the winners of the 2011 Connecticut Roadway Safety Poster Contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":216896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2110],"class_list":["post-203512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 15:53:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225048,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203512\/revisions\/225048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/216896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203512"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=203512"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=203512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}