Huntsman Card Competition Winner Announced Today

The top three winners in the Jon. M. Huntsman Holiday Card contest will be announced today.

The school of business will not judge entries, but the number of Facebook votes will solely determine the winner of the contest. The card with the most Facebook “likes” will receive $500; second place will earn $200 and third place will receive $100. 

Students who submitted holiday cards were given strict guidelines in order to participate.  

Entrants had to be enrolled as a student at Utah State University and at least 18 years old. Submitted cards could be graphically created, with color or black and white. The card also had to be an original creation.

One holiday card submitted was a violation of copyright and was disqualified from the completion.

Trent Morrison, an entrant in the card competition, created his card differently from the usual holiday theme.

“My card had a silhouette of a mustache on a Christmas tree with a plaid background,” said Morrison. “I went trendy with my design and also put hash tag hipster holiday at the bottom of it.”

For each “like”, The Huntsman School of Business will donate 50 cents to the Cache Valley Food Pantry. Donations will be capped after 300 votes per card.

“I think this friendly competition serves a great purpose in helping out our local food bank,” said Sloan Bailey, a student in the Huntsman School of Business. “During the holidays students are always looking for ways to help those in need.”

In the beginning Matt Witcher, manager of the Cache Valley Food Bank, did not know about this donation.

“Sometimes we find out about donations once they deliver the money to us,” Witcher said. “They bring the money to us once the event is over usually and only know about donations like these 50 percent of the time.”