Safety Essay Writing Competition 2018

What an exciting year 2018 proved to be for the annual HAIP Safety Essay Writing Competition!

This year's participating schools were:

• McKinley High School
• Moanalua High School
• Pearl City High School
• Radford High School

We had a significant number of essays submitted on the topic of "Distracted Driving" and the job of judging the essays was not an easy task, as so many were well written with extraordinary stories.  However, the winners of the Safety Essay Writing Competition were:

• First Place:         TaNiyah Wiggins of Radford High School                  Essay entitled, "My First Day of School"          (Pictured far left)
• Second Place:    Melissa Kansou of Pearl City High School                 Essay entitled, "If Only I Had Looked Up"       (Pictured far right)
• Third Place:        Elijah Hu of Pearl City High School                            Essay entitled, "Wrecked Lives"                      (Pictured center)

 Congratulations to our winners for a job well done!        

Thank you to the HAIP Safety Essay Contest Sponsors:

• Charlene Mizumoto, Retired
• DTRIC Insurance Company, Ltd.
• Farmers Insurance Hawaii, Inc.
• Gayle Nakasone
• Hawaii Independent Insurance Agents Association
• HEMIC
• Markel FirstComp

And a very special Mahalo Nui Loa to our Safety Chairperson, Julie K. Kirk, who every year puts in much time and energy to make this event a wonderful success!