Indiana Connection Cooperative Calendar of Student Art - Indiana Connection

Indiana Connection Cooperative Calendar of Student Art

Since 1998, Indiana Connection and participating Indiana electric cooperatives have held an annual art contest for Indiana students in grades kindergarten through 12. The winning works from each grade are then used to illustrate the Cooperative Calendar of Student Art that participating REMCs/RECs have distributed.

Each of the numbered grades is given the corresponding month of the year to illustrate: 12 grades, 12 months. It’s a perfect combination. Kindergartners are assigned the cover each year. The calendar is localized by the participating cooperatives to provide important information to consumers such as billing and annual meeting dates, phone numbers and electrical safety and energy efficiency information. The calendar helps co-ops meet one of the 7 cooperative principles — member information and education. In addition, by being illustrated with student art, the calendar helps fulfill another of the 7 principles — commitment to community. As more art programs in schools face budgetary challenges, Indiana Connection believes encouraging the arts — the imagination, self-expression and creativity these disciplines stimulate — is vital to society. Not only do the arts produce aesthetic beauty and entertainment for our hearts and souls, studies after study show the arts play a key role alongside science, technology, engineering and math in producing the minds of well-rounded, problem-solving, thoughtful individuals needed to lead and run our modern, high-tech world.


2026 Cooperative Calendar of Student Art Contest — ENTRIES ACCEPTED!

Entries for the 2026 Cooperative Calendar of Student Art are now OPEN! Enter your artwork today!

Contest details and entry form can be found HERE.


Congratulations to our 2025 Cooperative Calendar of Student Art Contest Winners!

Here are the students who will be gracing the pages of our 27th annual Cooperative Calendar of Student Art in 2025. See the winning artwork in the gallery below.

Grade Division winners ($200)

Kindergarten — Kora Gehlhausen, Birdseye
First Grade — Rowyn Mellencamp, Seymour
Second Grade — Eva Harrison, Greensburg (Decatur County REMC)
Third Grade — Caroline Buck, Fort Wayne
Fourth Grade — Adelyn Luckey, Columbia City
Fifth Grade — Flynn Cissell, Borden (Clark County REMC)
Sixth Grade — Lena Goller, Shoals (Daviess-Martin REMC)
Seventh Grade — Zoe Bubp, Fort Wayne (Northeastern REMC)
Eighth Grade — Cooper Baird, Fort Wayne (Northeastern REMC)
Ninth Grade — Isabelle Ferguson, Worthington (UDWI REMC)
10th Grade —  Alena Hindbaugh, South Whitley
11th Grade — Cassidy Skinner, South Whitley (Best of Show winner — additional $100)
12th Grade — Justine Ocken, South Whitley
Best of Show — Cassidy Skinner, South Whitley

 

Honorable Mention winners ($75)

Kindergarten — Evelyn Mcllrath, Flora (Carroll White REMC)
First Grade — Remy Yeager, Elizabeth (Harrison REMC)
Second Grade — Mason Malicki, Columbia City
Third Grade — Easton Cole, Birdseye (Dubois REMC)
Fourth Grade — Eden Grace Fawver, Knightstown (Henry County REMC)
Fifth Grade — Lily Fouts, Seymour
Sixth Grade — Ella Stein, Fort Wayne
Seventh Grade — Braydon Snider, Fort Wayne  (Northeastern REMC)
Eighth Grade — Elliana Heintz, Fort Wayne (Northeastern REMC)
Ninth Grade — Miley Baugh, Georgetown (Harrison REMC)
10th Grade — Adyn Bajer, Walkerton
11th Grade — Cassidy Skinner, South Whitely
12th Grade — Katelyn Cripe, South Whitely