Here are the winners of the contest and their entries:

The Best of Show: Cambria Hulbert, a Roy High School student

America

America

250 years of freedom

250 years of patriotism

A country built by individuals willing to leave everything behind to build a better life for their children

Red, White, and blue

We wear these colors every July 4th.

Waving flags of bravery, purity, and justice Do we truly understand what these colors mean?

Who they represent?

They represent every person who calls the USA their home

Every baby who has taken their first wobbly steps on the soil that our soldiers have fought to protect

Every stranger entering our country for the first time in promise of a better future The children that run across playgrounds blissfully unaware of the cost of freedom

Freedom

The ability to be free

For 250 years we have all struggled, grieved, and rejoiced together.

In all of the uncertain times, unpredictable events we have all come together as a country. 9/11, Pearl Harbor attack, hurricanes, earthquakes, and The Great Depression All tragic events in America history yet times that Americans have banded together to strengthen this country

America

250 years of prosperity 250 years of innovation

A country built by millions of unique people working together to create the greatest nation.

1st Place in Senior High School age group: James Green, a Roy High School student

Great country of America

Over 250 years ago

Dared to be free

Because of the sacrifice

Liberty we gained

Everyone should celebrate

She protects us all the time

Singing out in joy

Anytime you go and do what you need

May God watch over you

Ever you may need him

Receive his love

In all your works

Can’t we all agree God blesses

America

1st Place in Junior High School age group: Melia Johnson, a Sand Ridge Jr. High student

Two Hundred and Fifty

Thirteen colonies rose to fight for us,

For freedom, rights, and bold success.

Through muck and rain, they faced the foe,

Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago.

War of 1812 is done and through;

Twenty-four states–a nation made anew.

Monroe’s “Good Feelings” started to show,

Two Hundred Years Ago.

Reconstruction and thirty-eight states,

Bell’s telephone was worth the wait.

The Centennial rings as the country grows,

A Hundred and Fifty Years Ago.

Forty-eight states and the factory line,

Coolidge and Harding in prosperous times.

The Jazz Age roars through the radio,

A Hundred Years Ago.

Fifty states and the MRI machine,

Ford and Carter at the Bicentennial scene.

The fireworks burst in a brilliant glow,

Fifty Years Ago.

From thirteen stars to a digital glow,

A quarter-millennium of seeds we sow.

To the great anniversary, forward we go-

Two Hundred and Fifty Years… watch us grow!