Center Point-Urbana student wins national poster contest

CENTER POINT — Livian, a senior at Center Point-Urbana High School, has been named a winner of a national poster contest highlighting the dangers kids face online.

The winning artwork was selected from hundreds of submissions across the country by the Center for Internet Security, Inc. and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center. It will be made in to a poster and also featured in the Center for Internet Security’s 2024 Kids Safe Online activity book.

“Students of all ages are connected across a variety of devices like phones, tablets, school laptops and gaming systems,” said Karen Sorady, vice president of the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

“The Kids Safe Online poster contest is a terrific way not only to educate our kids about making smart choices and protecting their personal information, but it also empowers them to identify and report potential online dangers to keep their friends and communities safer,” Sorady said in a news release.

The book will be available to schools across the U.S. to raise awareness of cybersecurity issues facing kids of all ages. It will include cybersecurity-related crossword puzzles, vocabulary sheets, word scrambles, coloring pages and the poster contest artwork.

Livian is one of 10 students across the U.S. helping educate others about the dangers they could encounter online.

The contest was open to students in public and private schools and youth organizations in kindergarten through 12th grade.

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