O[yes] 2026 Media Contest Winners!

Graphic design 1st place winner “Keep Your Cool Don’t Be a Fool” by Pyper Fussell

We are pleased to announce the 2026 winners of the o[yes] media contest!
 
This year, our 18^th year of the contest, all entries were given the task of encouraging others to take Oregon OSHA’s online heat illness prevention training.
 
“This year was the first year we focused on heat illness prevention training, and it was very cool to see the creativity and talent of the submissions. It made it hard to choose the winners,” according to Jackie Boyd, media contest committee chair and Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OR-FACE) Research Project Manager at Oregon Health & Science University.  
 
Here are the winners in each category and view them on our website:
 
Video:
First place: Crescent Valley High School (Corvallis), “Beat the Heat” ($500)
Carlos Vanegas
 
Second place: Parkrose High School (Portland), “Heat Check” ($400)
James Mitseff
Bea Fernandez
Gerard Hatsitski
Jaslim Pool Carrillo
Keanu Pangkasa Ouk
Nicky Fischer
Dylan Yeomans
 
Third: Crescent Valley High School (Corvallis), “Dehydrated Cowboy” ($300)
Toni Kimmel
Dilara Ates
Sky Fu-Ramsey
 

Finalist: Crescent Valley High School (Corvallis), “Scorchingly Unsafe”
Finn Hopson
Gray Hendricks
Aren Petersen
 
Finalist: McLoughlin High School (Milton-Freewater), “Beat the Heat!”
Bella Quist Knopf
 
Finalist: Sherwood High School, “Stay Safe from the Sun”
Samuel Goulding
 
 
Graphic design:
First place: Henley High School (Klamath Falls), “Keep Your Cool Don’t Be a Fool” ($500)
Pyper Fussell
 
Second place: The Dalles High School, “Don’t Melt” ($400)
Zachary Wilde
 
Third place: Centennial High School (Gresham), “Heat Illness Prevention” ($300)
DaiJoniea Gray
 
Finalist: Clackamas Academy of Industrial Sciences (Oregon City), “OSHA”
Frederick Berthrong
 
Finalist: Henley High school (Klamath Falls), “Say O[yes] to Safety”
Harlee Stephens
 
Finalist: Center for Advanced Learning (Gresham), “Heat Illness Awareness Poster”
Ashley Tran
 
Finalist: Bend Senior High School, “Be Aware Heat Illness Awareness Poster”
Sam Neil
 
Finalist: Bend Senior High School, “Work Smart”
Wylam Klein
 
 
Those teams or individuals who won first place also received a matching award for their schools.
 
Congratulations to everyone!
 
We thank our sponsors who make our contest possible: Oregon Chapters of the American Association of Safety Professionals, Construction Safety Summit, Central Oregon Safety and Health Association, Hoffman Construction, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Oregon OSHA, Oregon SHARP Alliance, SafeBuild Alliance, and SAIF.