Schoonover wins design prize

Laura Schoonover

MARYVILLE, Mo. — Laura Schoonover, Mound City, a senior art major at Northwest Missouri State University, has won the 2015 Computer User’s Guide Cover Art Contest sponsored by the school’s Office of Information Technology in cooperation with the Center of Information and Technology in Education and the Department of Fine and Performing Arts.

Schoonover’s design will appear as the front cover of the 2015-2016 Guide to Northwest Technology, which is distributed to about 1,700 incoming freshmen and transfer students as well as Northwest employees.

As this year’s winner, Schoonover will receive a certificate of accomplishment along with a 32-gigabyte USB flash drive and two copies of the technology guide for her portfolio.

The cover art contest is designed to draw attention to computing handbook, which provides students with information about campus technology resources and policies.

Fourteen students submitted covers for the 11th annual contest. Submissions were critiqued and voted on by a panel of judges representing the local and campus communities.