Winter Garden honors 2025 Drop Savers Poster Contest winners

Four local students won and another four were given honorable mentions.

By Liz Ramos
| 3:45 p.m. April 11, 2025

Observer School Zone

The Winter Garden City Commission honored the winners of the 2025 Drop Savers Poster Contest during its meeting Thursday, April 10.

Honoring the winners came after the commission read a proclamation for Florida's Water Conservation Month, which is the month of April.

Donna Corbus, the sustainability and community liaison for the city, said 67 students in Winter Garden participated in this year’s contest, but no students from Division 2, which is second- and third-graders participated.

The competition consists of five divisions broken down by grade levels.

Zane Brushwood, a first-grader at Dillard Street Elementary School, was the Division 1 winner. Emmalynn Elliott, a fifth-grader at Creation Village World School, was the Division 3 winner. Yasmine Makaron, a sixth-grader at Foundation Academy, was the Division 4 winner. Emma Quintana, a junior at Foundation Academy, was the Division 5 winner.

Honorable mentions were given to Dillard Street Elementary’s Nathan Welch and Foundation Academy’s Claire Helmick, Emma McCleary and Avery Olesen.

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Liz Ramos

Senior Editor Liz Ramos previously covered education and community for the East County Observer. Before moving to Florida, Liz was an education reporter for the Lynchburg News & Advance in Virginia for two years after graduating from the Missouri School of Journalism.