The Tennessee Association of Conservation Districts (TACD) recently honored Allison Stephens for her winning poster at their Annual Convention in Franklin.

Each year the Cumberland County Soil Conservation District hosts a county Soil and Water Stewardship Poster Contest for students in grades kindergarten through twelfth grade. All county first place posters are submitted to the state poster contest.

This year’s poster contest theme was “Life in the Soil: Dig Deeper” which had to be incorporated into the posters submitted for the contest. Students expressed the importance of soil to our everyday lives.

Allison Stephens, a second-grade student at Brown Elementary, won the county 2nd-3rd grade category in the TACD State Poster Contest. She received a certificate and cash prize.

(Pictured are (from left) Cumberland County Soil Conservation District Secretary-Treasurer Keith Cole, Allison Stephens and Cumberland County Soil Conservation District Chairman Jeff Dodson)