The Munster Police Department is pleased to announce that five Munster students were honored in this year's state-wide Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) Indiana Poster Contest! In April 2023, D.A.R.E. officers from all over the State of Indiana invited their fifth grade students to create a poster displaying what they learned through their D.A.R.E. classes this year. The entries were submitted to D.A.R.E. Indiana which judged them and sponsored the prizes.
Each of the students who completed the Munster Police Department’s D.A.R.E. Program during the past school year were invited along with fifth-graders from all over Indiana to create a poster displaying what they learned during their D.A.R.E. classes. Many entries from our town were sent down to D.A.R.E. Indiana by D.A.R.E. Officer James Ghrist to be judged with the other entrees.
D.A.R.E. Poster Award Winners (left to right): Savannah Briney, Adeline Martinez, Laein Choi, Zenna Czapka, and Zoey Blue stand together with Munster Police Department D.A.R.E. Officer James Ghrist.
Laein Choi, a fifth-grader at Eads Elementary School, was selected as the Grand Prize Winner and received a $100 gift card along with an invitation to a special awards ceremony later this year at the Indiana Governor’s Mansion.
Laein Choi, Eads Elementary School - Grand Prize Winner
Zoey Blue (Elliott Elementary School), Savannah Briney (St. Thomas More School), Zenna Czapka (Eads Elementary School), and Adeline Martinez (Eads Elementary School) were all presented with $25 gift cards as Honorable Mention Awards.
Munster students won five out of the six awards that were presented. Congratulations to each of these award winners and thank you to the many Munster students who entered the poster contest this spring!
The Munster Police Department has presented the D.A.R.E. Program in Munster schools for 35 YEARS, having implemented the program in 1988. The program recently celebrated its 40TH ANNIVERSARY in the United States.