Decorah girl wins statewide poster contest

A Decorah 5th grader has won a statewide poster contest.

Kalea Oftedah's design was chosen as the best among kindergarten through 5th grade students statewide in a K-12 Cyber Security Awareness Poster Contest conducted by the State of Iowa's Information Security Office.

Kalea Oftedahl earlier this year had her design selected for this summer's Decorah Public Library summer reading t-shirt.

Another of her designs, for a t-shirt contest run by the Crazy 8 chain of stores, won runner-up prize.  Her shirt will be made and sold online on the Crazy 8 website beginning in August through the end of October.