Bo Brown, 8, a third- grader at Addison Mizner Elementary School in Boca Raton, created the winning illustration in a contest for Boca Raton elementary school students, sponsored by Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation.
Bo and his parents, Caroline and Bill Brown, who live in Boca Raton, did some preliminary research on the Internet, and his grandmother Denise Brown, a retired nurse practitioner, explained bone marrow transplants to Bo.
Bo, who likes to draw, and his dad brainstormed a few ideas, ending up with three. Bo’s drawings are usually more detailed, but he and his dad decided to keep it simple: He drew a super-hero figure, dressed in green, with a blue M medallion on its chest, flying through the air and proclaiming, “Be a hero! Donate bone marrow!”
Bo and his classmates at Addison Mizner were treated to an ice cream party. But for him, the real prize was something else.
“The best part was, I got to help a ton of people, to give the message that donating bone marrow is a good thing.”
And yes, he says, when he gets older, he hopes to volunteer to become a bone marrow donor himself.
— Lona O’Connor
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