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New York State’s Missing Children’s Day Poster Contest Winner

Xiao Qi Chloe Yu, a fifth-grade pupil from Brooklyn, is the winner of this year's contest. The 10-year-old's drawing will represent New York State in the National Missing Children’s Day Poster Contest, an annual competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Yu, who attends P.S. 206 Joseph F. Lamb in Brooklyn, depicted a woman saving a child and ascending a mountain, with a home and a reunited family on the summit. Two hands form a heart on the upper right corner and various shapes show obstacles on the bottom of the artwork.

New York's first-, second- and third-place posters and all qualifying contest entries will be displayed at the Empire State Plaza Concourse in May. The Missing Persons Clearinghouse also coordinates a ceremony in Albany that honors the contest winners.

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National Missing Children’s Day Poster Contest

The Missing Persons Clearinghouse annually coordinates New York State’s contest to select the state’s entry in the National Missing Children’s Day Poster Contest, which is sponsored by the federal Department of Justice.

Entries for this year’s contest are closed.

The state contest follows the rules and judging criteria of the national contest. The deadline for entries is typically in late January and the state’s first-, second-, and third-place winners are notified sometime in March. The national contest winner is announced in April.

Please email missingpersons@dcjs.ny.gov for more information about the contest and deadlines.

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