Vans names Edison High School as runner-up in nationwide shoe art contest; school given $15,000
Edison High School was top five, but ultimately lost the competition to Louisiana school
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Edison High School s submissions for the Vans Custom Culture competition. (Courtesy, Vans)
SAN ANTONIO – Edison High School may have lost the Vans Custom Culture shoe art competition, but they still came out with a prize.
Vans announced the group of San Antonio students came in as a runner-up in the 12th year of the contest, ranking among the top five most creative high schools in the nation to enter the competition.
Edison High School students want you to pick their kicks in nationwide contest to support art program
The shoes take inspiration from San Antonio’s cultural surroundings and Fiesta
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SAN ANTONIO – One group of San Antonio students is giving a couple of pairs of Vans shoes the Fiesta experience as part of a contest to help support their art program.
Students at Thomas Edison High School are competing against other teams nationwide for $50,000 dollars to help support their art program.
The contest is part of the Vans Custom Culture competition.
The students at Edison are currently ranked 50th in voting and hope to make a slot in the contests’ top five with their Fiesta flair.
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Edison High School art student Rogelio Zamarripa created a design that has put the school in the running in a national Vans shoe competition.
Three years ago, when art teacher Dezarré Boone arrived at Edison High School, she set out to advocate for a struggling department and its students.
A lot of them. She’s one of three art teachers and has seven classes a day, about 32 students per class.
The pandemic changed that to 10 in-person students, the rest learning remotely.
They’ve struggled with technology, as have others, but many of her students didn’t have laptops or internet access before the coronavirus. That makes for one positive outcome from the pandemic.