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For April, we asked you to celebrate Earth Day by creating an animated GIF to honor our amazing planet. We received GIFs that were exciting, creative and reminded us of how lucky we are to call this planet our home. Thank you to everyone who submitted an animated GIF!

Our Grand Prize

Earning the MicroProject Winner Badge and a $60 gift card to Best Buy for their squad is It's Up to Us to Save the Earth!! by karen826 from Halsey's Mouse Squad in Rego Park, New York. Her GIF shows high levels of skill, effort, and attention to detail. The frames change seamlessly thanks to karen826's expert use of at least three separate programs and photography to create this wonderful finished product. Congratulations once again to karen826 and Halsey's Mouse Squad!

Check out "It's Up to Us to Save the Earth!!" here.

Our First Runner Up

Our first runner up and a Papertronics Lunar Module goes to the entire Squad at P.S. 139 (Q139) in Rego Park, New York! This squad submitted a ton of great projects, but our favorites are The brown kiwi by 317ashley, Trees are important by 323veronica and Dylans Earth day by 321dylan. All three touched on different ways to protect our environment from saving endangered creatures to chopping down fewer trees and recycling waste properly. We especially liked the research that 321dylan and 317ashley put into their GIFS and 323veronica wrote about the many jobs that trees perform on our planet. Awesome work 323veronica, 321dylan, 317ashley and P.S. 139!

Our Second Runner Up

Our second Runner Up (also receiving a Papertronics Lunar Module) is gifing tree micro project by MentallyDisturbedLlama from SCS Mouse Squad in Canton, Michigan. This GIF entry was done expertly well. The animation is smooth and just plain fun to look at! This GIF reminds us that even though flowers and trees are pretty commonplace, we shouldn't forget how magical they are and how lucky we are to be able to enjoy them. Congratulations MentallyDisturbedLlama and the entire squad!

Honorable Mentions

There were so many great projects this month that we wish we had more prizes to give away! We would like to share these awesome honorable mentions:

• Care for the Earth! by lori826 at Halsey for yet another incredible hand drawn submission.
• Gifing tree by hockey basher from South Canton Scholars Charter Academy
• Stop Pollution by 18shelbpope at Union Middle School

Shout out for Wins!

It's never too late to award Wins to your favorite MicroProject entries! Give wins for creativity, technical know-how or inspiration. This month we'd like to shout out both koolaid321likescandy and Oishani for giving great creativity wins. koolaid321likescandy & Oishani, we think you are WINNERS with all caps!

When you see someone make a cool MicroProject submission, let them know that they did a great job by giving them a win! You can always go back and give wins to old projects.

Thank you to Coordinators and students who participated and submitted so many awesome GIFs! Next month is time to share your skills with the entire Mouse network D.I.Y. Competition.