The Cheap Payoff
By Jane | March 20th, 2009 | Category: School News | 2 commentsI saw this interesting tidbit over at Fort Mill Times. Apparently a contest was held in which local high school students were encouraged to draw their interpretations of the new elementary school mascots (Pleasant Knoll Panthers and Sugar Creek Sharks). They were given two weeks to come up with logos for each school. A committee made up of teachers and administrators from both new schools were then brought together for judging.
Here’s what I thought was interesting:
Taylor Elliott and Jimmy Carpenter, both from Fort Mill High School, had their designs selected. Both received a $50 Target gift card.
A $50 gift card? Seriously? THAT was their prize for drawing an image that will become synonymous with those schools in the years – no, DECADES – to come? $50? Jeez, that seems like a cheap payoff to me. I would have thought something like a Wii would have been a better prize for these kids. This economy really IS bad.
You can see the winning entries here:
* Pleasant Knoll Panthers
* Sugar Creek Sharks
They are both nice looking logos. The problem with the Pleasant Knoll one is the words “Pleasant Knoll” are too hard to read and I think they should have come before the word “Panthers.” Just my opinion. They are both well worth the money they spent. LOL Maybe you should ask these two winners to come up with a new logo for ScoopMill and give the winner a gift card to Walmart.
Perhaps when ScoopMill is ready for a facelift we’ll do a contest as well.