2025-2026 Poster Contest
- Jan 13
- 2 min read
Celebrating Creativity: Our Students Shine Again!
We’re excited to share the details for this year’s School Bus Safety Poster Contest—and we’re hoping last year’s incredible enthusiasm keeps rolling right into 2025–26!
This year’s theme is “Safe Rides, Everyday Heroes”—a perfect way to highlight both the importance of our bus drivers and the responsibility every student carries when it comes to staying safe on the bus.
We’d love for your schools to join in again! The poster contest is always a student favorite and a fantastic opportunity to help reinforce the importance of school bus safety in a creative, meaningful way. The theme needs to be incorporated into the posters to qualify for entry.
You’ll find all the official rules and instructions from the National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT) here. Please make sure all guidelines are followed carefully—including the exact punctuation of the theme—so your students’ posters can advance from district to state and potentially all the way to Nationals!
Don’t forget to attach the “poster label” (found at the end of the instructions packet) to the back of each entry with all information clearly written. This helps us contact students if their poster moves forward or wins a prize. All personal information will remain confidential and only used by contest organizers.
State Poster Submission Deadline: March 20, 2026
If your district is in the NW metro area, I’m happy to swing by and pick them up! If not, please mail them to the address of 2727 N Ferry St, Anoka, MN 55303 Attn: Kristen Joly by the above deadline.
We can’t wait to see the creativity, talent, and safety pride your students bring to this year’s theme.
Kristen Joly
Poster Contest Chair
(763) 506-1139
Last year's winners!
