{"id":214769,"date":"2026-04-29T23:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214769\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:13:40","slug":"south-bay-middle-school-student-wins-grand-prize-at-regional-art-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214769\/","title":{"rendered":"South Bay Middle School Student Wins Grand Prize At Regional Art Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Manhattan Beach middle schooler has been named one of three grand prize winners at the West Basin Municipal Water District&#8217;s student art contest.<\/p>\n<p>Eighth grader Catalina Godard of Manhattan Beach Middle School is one of the winners, with the others being fourth grader Mina Esseveld of Mark Twain Elementary in Lawndale; and 11th grader Eliana Hernandez of Lennox Mathematics Science and Technology Academy in Lennox.<\/p>\n<p>The annual \u201cBeing Water Wise Is&#8230;\u201d student art contest included students from schools in Carson, Culver City, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lennox, Manhattan Beach, Rancho Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach and Torrance.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 397 entries, one standout entrant was selected as the grand prize winner in each of the three grade categories.<\/p>\n<p>The contest&#8217;s theme is water sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Each grand prize-winning student received an iPad and a digital stylus and a $25 Apple Store gift card. The grand prize winners now advance to the Metropolitan Water District\u2019s<br \/>regional competition for a chance to be featured in their 2027 Student Art Calendar.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the \u201cBeing Water Wise Is&#8230;\u201d Student Art Contest is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/WestBasinCA.gov\/art-contest.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WestBasinCA.gov\/art-contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manhattan Beach middle schooler has been named one of three grand prize winners at the West Basin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-214769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}