

2012 CALIFORNIA JR. DUCK STAMP CONSERVATION AND DESIGN CONTEST
Melissa Searle took 1st Place in Group III. David Zhang received the Honorable Mention in Group IV. The contest also included a Conservation Messages contest, where two students from the studio won the Group II contest. Rahul Natarajan took 2nd Place with “Conservation is important to me because I believe wild animals made the world the place it is and saving them is important. " Anya Tyagarajan took 3rd Place in the same Group. She wrote that “Birds are a part of life. We ne