From International Festival of Owls
Here are our winners from our 2026 International Kids’ Owl Art Contest! This year we had about 2,978 entries from about 40 countries and 27 U.S. states!!
Thank you all for your participation in our contest! We hope to see you again next year!
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.
Give me a bit to post all the photos! There’s about 2 dozen. Edit: all done!
Ages 10-14, Third Place Tie, Nata Thungseabyoun (Age 14) Thailand
Ages 10-14, First Place, Law Tsz Huen Chloe (Age 13) Hong Kong
Ages 15-18, Honorable Mention, Wirisa Kaeothiptim (Age 17) Thailand
Ages 15-18, Honorable Mention, Khemika Nacawadjana (Age 16) Thailand
Ages 15-18, Second Place, Nattapat Chaichanakasikram (Age 17) Thailand
Ages 6-9, Honorable Mention, Nadeżda Prigożina (Age 9) Latvia
Ages 10-14, Honorable Mention, Luke Zhang (Age 12) USA
Ages 15-18, First Place, Elyn Qiu (Age 15) Canada
Ages 0-5, Third Place, Tse Cheuk Hei (Age 4) Hong Kong
That is terrifying :D
Lol, poor kid isn’t exactly from Snowy Owl territory! We can cut them a little slack. 😄
It did make me Google if Hong Kong gets any snow out of curiosity, and the answer is…sorta.
Hong Kong’s climate is sub-tropical, tending towards temperate for nearly half the year. During the winter season, it is not uncommon for temperatures to drop below 10oC in the urban areas, and the lowest temperature ever recorded at the Observatory was 0oC on 18 January 1893.
With intense winter monsoon bringing very cold air mass from the north, sub-zero temperatures could sometimes occur on high ground and in the New Territories, where there were reports of frost, ice, rime or even slight snow. From 1967 to 1975, there were four days with slight snow reported in Hong Kong (see table). Although frost and ice still occasionally occurred in winter, there was no more report of snow ever since.
The more you know! ☃️
Ages 6-9, Honorable Mention, Chi, Yi-Hsiang (Age 9) Taiwan
Ages 6-9, Second Place, Temirali Asylum (Age 8) Kazakhstan
Ages 6-9, First Place, Kawalin Artsungnoen (Age Thailand
I greatly enjoy the colors and patterns in this one.
Ages 10-14, Honorable Mention, Phichayathida Petsringam (Age 11) Thailand
Ages 10-14, Honorable Mention, M. M. Dewmini Amasha (Age 14) Sri Lanka
Ages 10-14, Third Place Tie, Kaewta Kitinai (Age 13, Thailand)
