Mars Area School District is encouraging students to participate in two upcoming art contests:

• Children’s Grief Poster Contest — The Highmark Caring Place Caring Team for Grieving Students Children’s Grief Poster Contest, open to students in Grades K-12, has the theme, “How Can You Support a Friend Who is Grieving?” Poster contest submissions must be hand-drawn on 11-by-17-inch paper (no computer-generated or digital images) and may be submitted through Saturday, Jan. 30.
  
  
• How to be a Hero Coloring Contest — Edgar Snyder & Associates, in cooperation with The Cameron Heyward Foundation, is offering its annual “How to be a Hero” Coloring Contest for students in Grades K-5. Entries, which must be on 8.5-by-11-inch paper in landscape orientation, must be turned into the art teacher by Monday, March 1. 

For more information, contact Katie Frye, art teacher, at (724) 625-3161.