The winners of the Dark Skies Rangers contests about light pollution were announced during the Festa das Estrelas 2014, organised by NUCLIO – Núcleo Interactivo de Astronomia. Due to the quality of the works submitted, the jury decided to award prizes to the most creative works. The winning works are published at http://dsr.nuclio.pt/concursos-dsr-2014/
Three of the winning works (Ana Rodrigues, Canpolat Dogray and Maria Alves) were done in the Comenius project “Dive in the Sky”, a collaboration between schools from Austria, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Portugal and Turkey.
Winners of the international contest:
Students between 6 and 12 years old
1st prize: Francisco Pires (Portugal)
2nd prize: Kiril Damjanoski (Republic of Macedonia)
3rd prize: Ana Rosa (Portugal) and Canpolat Dogray (Turkey)
Creativity award: Alda Simões (Portugal)
Students between 13 and 15 years old
1st prize: Costachioiu Andreea-Roxana (Romania)
2nd prize: David Damjanoski (Republic of Macedonia)
3rd prize: Ana Rodrigues (Portugal)
Creativity award: Gonçalo Ferreira (Portugal)
Students between 16 and 18 years old
Diana Pereira (Portugal)
Teachers
1st prize: Carlos Pinto (Portugal)
2nd prize: Chiotelis Ioannis (Greece)
3rd prize: Álvaro Folhas (Portugal)
Winners of the national contest (only for Portuguese students from primary school):
Alda Simões (EB nº 3 de Condeixa-a-Nova)
Alice Patrão (EB de Sobral de Monte Agraço e S. Quintino)
Ana Rosa (EB João Pedro de Andrade)
Ana Santos (Centro Escolar Araucária)
Francisco Pires (Centro Escolar Araucária)
Lara Silva (Centro Escolar do Corim e da Gandra)
Maria Alves (EB1 Visconde de S. Gião)
Maria Ascensão (Centro Escolar do Corim e da Gandra)
Maria Carvalho (EB1/JI dos Castelos)
Marta Cardita (EB1 nº 2 de Birre)
Olga Gusan (EB1 nº 1 de São Domingos de Rana)
Sofia Pinheiro (Centro Escolar de Alenquer)
(all winning drawings here)