Weston fifth-grader recognized for winning Colorado’s Missing Children’s Day poster contest

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (KRDO) -- Three fifth-graders were recognized for their award-winning posters as part of the National Missing Children's Day poster contest,

Wednesday is National Missing Children's Day. According to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, tens of thousands of children are reported missing within the United States every year.

Every year, missing children are honored and remembered on National Missing Children's Day on May 25.

This year, CBI Director John Camper honored three fifth-graders for their winning posters. The first-place winner was Kacey May Costa from the town of Weston, the second-place winner was Aliana Rodriguez from Holly, and the third-place winner was Collins Heck, also from Holly.

“I greatly appreciate Ms. Costa’s effort in creating a poster that reflects the pure joy and relief when a family member and child are reunited,” said CBI Director Camper in a press release. “While selecting a winner of this year’s contest was difficult, Kacey’s poster resonated with many of us here at the CBI.”

The contest is held every year.

According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the first National Missing Children's Day was in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan recognized a 6-year-old boy who disappeared from New York City several years before.

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