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BLUE BOX KIDS
BLUE BOX KIDS. Contest sponsored by Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. In 2001 Michael Burbach and Casey Olmstead became two of twelve children from across the United States to win the contest. There were 12,000 contest entries.
The two artists read about the fourth annual contest on the back of macaroni and cheese boxes. They had a choice of entering artwork, a story or a poem, or a video expressed their love for the meal. Olmstead created a mosaic of a girl licking her lips near a bowl of macaroni and cheese. Burbach drew himself in a safari suit swinging on a vine over crocodiles to grab a box of macaroni and cheese.
The two students were featured on over 1 million special edition boxes of macaroni and cheese sold during the summer. They also received $10,000 college scholarships and family trips to Florida.