GFB News Magazine
Gwinnett & Forsyth students win GFB contests
by Lauren Goble
Posted on August 21, 2025 8:09 PM
Georgia students created colorful bookmarks and sketched scenes depicting agriculture to win prizes in the 2025 Georgia Farm Bureau Middle School Bookmark and High School Art Contests.
Kelly Baker, of Gwinnett County, won the GFB High School Art Contest with the artwork above. Baker received $250 as the state winner and $100 as the GFB 3rd District winner. She was a junior at SKA Academy at the time she entered the contest.
Other district winners in the art contest were:1st Dist. - Eeshal Gupta, Forsyth County; 2nd Dist. - Abrianna Gaiti, Hall County; 4th Dist. - Leah Miller, Morgan County; 5th Dist. - Megan Milliken, Monroe County; 6th Dist. - Mara Delgado, Dodge County; 7th Dist. - Addison Swart, Long County; 8th Dist. - Janae King, Lee County; 9th Dist. - Betsaida Hernandez, Dougherty County; & 10th Dist. - Bella Cabrera, Glynn County. Visit https://gfb.ag/25artwinners to see all the district winners’ artwork for the 2025 GFB High School Art Contest.
Haley Bolin, of Forsyth County, won state honors in the middle school bookmark contest with the colorful artwork below. She received $150 for winning the state bookmark contest and $100 as the GFB 1st District winner. She was an eighth-grader at South Forsyth Middle School when she entered the contest.
Additional district winners in the bookmark contest were: 2nd Dist. - Tania Kuziaieva, Jackson County; 3rd Dist. - Joy Yang, Gwinnett County; 4th Dist. - Aeran Patel, McDuffie County; 5th Dist. - Aubrey Berton, Spalding County; 6th Dist. - Madelynn Valencia, Bibb County; 7th Dist. - Melanie Burgos, Bulloch County; 8th Dist. - Harper Knight, Wilcox County; 9th Dist. - Emmy Rados, Brooks County; & 10th Dist. - Holly Gibbs, Pierce County. Visit https://gfb.ag/25bookmarkwinners to see all of the district winners’ creations in the 2025 GFB Middle School Bookmark Contest.
This marks the 31st year GFB held its annual art contest for ninth through twelfth-grade students. This is the fourth year GFB coordinated a contest for sixth through eighth graders to design a bookmark.
GFB received entries for its high school art contest from 75 county Farm Bureaus and entries from 81 county Farm Bureaus for its middle school bookmark contest. Judges selected GFB district winners for each contest from all county entries submitted from each district. Once the district winners were chosen, all GFB home office employees were invited to vote for their favorite artwork in each contest.
Contestants in the high school contest were instructed to create a black, white and gray drawing using graphite, charcoal, pastel, chalk, colored pencil, ballpoint pen or mixed media appropriate for printing. Drawings were judged on how well the artwork represented agriculture and for artistic merit.
The middle school contestants were given a blank bookmark and asked to create a design illustrating Georgia agriculture.
Contact your county Farm Bureau office in mid-November for information about the 2026 contests.
GFB wishes former Educational Programs Coordinator Lauren Goble the best of luck as she returns to teaching this fall. If you have questions about the Ag in the Classroom program, please contact Clay Talton at cstalton@gfb.org or 478-474-8411. Contact your county Farm Bureau if you’d like to volunteer with its AITC activities.