Calling all students: Help fight MRSA and win cash prizes!
Don’t miss this fun web contest. 
You can use your creative talents to teach others about a serious health risk, and win some cash too!
Enter the Students Fight MRSA! contest
You can submit entries in two categories:
- Audio/Visual
- Graphic Design/Written.
Great cash prizes will be awarded to 16 winners in grade levels 3 - 12. For more information about the contest rules, prizes and judging criteria visit www.studentsfightmrsa.com.
Students Fight MRSA! is a grassroots effort by Independence Blue Cross, The Health Care Improvement Foundation, and The Franklin Institute to raise awareness about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
What is MRSA?
MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It causes a serious skin infection that is resistant several common antibiotics. MRSA is spread through close skin-to-skin contact and has affected schools throughout our region.
To help prevent MRSA:*
- Practice good hygiene.
- Keep cuts and scrapes clean and covered with a bandage until healed.
- Avoid contact with other people’s wounds or bandages.
- Avoid sharing personal items, such as towels, washcloths, razors, or clothes.
- Wash soiled sheets, towels and clothes in hot water with bleach and dry in a hot dryer.
- If a wound appears to be infected, see a healthcare provider.
