La Barqueta presents the prizes of its drawing contest

Benidorm Assembly Hall has hosted the awards ceremony for the nineteenth edition of ‘La Barqueta’ School Drawing and Painting Contest, after last year's gala had to be suspended due to the health situation.
The event was attended by the mayor, Toni Pérez; the Councilors for Culture and Education, Jaime Jesús Pérez and Maite Moreno and other members of the Municipal Corporation who participated in the awards ceremony. The president of the Comissió de Festes Majors Patronals, José Vicente Fuster and the queens of the Major Patron Festivities Paula Pérez and Sofía Fuster, were also there.
On behalf of La Barqueta, its vice president, Batiste Rostoll, was in charge of opening the event and welcoming the attendees. Then, Toni Pérez took the floor to value "the talent of children" that year after year "converges in this contest" and has encouraged La Barqueta to "continue taking care of us" with experiences like this that they will tell "always ”With the collaboration of the City Council.
From La Barqueta they recalled that in the contest, which will address its twentieth edition next year, a total of 32,942 drawings have been presented throughout its history, which makes it one of the school drawing contests with the highest participation of all the country.
In this edition, a total of 1,921 drawings made by students from schools in Benidorm have been presented. Of them, 389 were selected that have been evaluated by the jury.

Awards
 

First Cycle of Primary
First prize: Sofía Fuster (CEIP Ausiàs March). Second prize: Nava González (CEIP Ausiàs March). Third prize: Lorenzo Vinaches (CEIP Bautista Lledó). Accesits for Ainhara Pérez (Our Lady of Sorrows), Xavier Bengoechea (CEIP Ausiàs March), Lucía Campuzano (CI Lope de Vega) and Jimena Luz (CEIP Ausiàs March)

Second Cycle of Primary
First prize: Daniela Martínez (CEIP Miguel Hernández). Second prize: Silvia Gómez (CEIP Bautista Lledó). Third prize: Carla Sedeño (CEIP Els Tolls). Accesits: Claudia Mayor (CEIP Ausiàs March), Karol Alexa (CEIP Mestre Gaspar López), Lucía Pinar (CEIP Ausiàs March) and Hugo Ortiz (CEIP Leonor Canalejas).

Third Cycle of Primary
First prize: Sole Navarro (CEIP La Cala). Second prize: Lola López (CEIP Ausiàs March). Third prize: Silvia Díaz (CI Lope de Vega). Accesits for Claudia Fuentes (Our Lady of Sorrows), Irene Araceli (CEIP Ausiàs March), Andrea Payà (CEIP Ausiàs March) and Bárbara Hernández (CEIP Ausiàs March).
Anna Chernova, from the Third Cycle of CEIP Miguel Hernández, announcing the contest in its twentieth edition.