Mar 10, 2008 2:48 pm US/Eastern
Butler Student Wins Bullying Poster Contest
BUTLER (KDKA) ―
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A Butler Jr. High School student won the Highmark Healthy High 5 Anti-Bullying Poster Contest with his "No Bullies" poster
KDKA
An eighth-grade student from Butler County is the winner of the Highmark Healthy High 5 "Bullying Isn't Cool Poster Contest" – and a brand new iPod!
More than 200 area middle school students put their pen to paper to show why it's not cool to bully. Ten of those students made it to the finals
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See All Ten Finalists' Posters ).
With more than 6,800 online votes counted on KDKA.com, Mark Malecky, a student at Butler Junior High School, took home the top honors!
During an assembly at his school this morning, the eighth grader got a round of applause as he picked up his new iPod and a special KDKA prize pack.
He told KDKA's Sonni Abatta what inspired him to draw his "No Bullies" poster.
"When you shouldn't do something, I always think of a circle with a [slash] through it and then I put the 'Bullies' in it," Malecky explained, "and I just kind of went from there with the facts in it… like 70-percent of people say that bullying is a problem and like 60-percent of bullies end up having a criminal record."
His message to any bullies is simple: "Just treat people with respect and you'll get it back."
Highmark Healthy High 5 Project Director Kweilin Nassar also presented the Butler Junior High School with a $2500 grant during today's assembly.
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