MARYVILLE, Mo. –A Mound City student will see her design on the front cover of next year’s Northwest Guide to Technology.

Laura Schoonover, a senior art major with a concentration in graphic design from Mound City, Mo., submitted the winning entry for the 2015 Computer User’s Guide Cover Art Contest sponsored by the Office of Information Technology in cooperation with the Center of Information and Technology in Education (CITE) and the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Northwest Missouri State University.

Schoonover’s design will be the front cover of the 2015-2016 Guide to Northwest Technology, which is distributed to about 1,700 incoming students during Northwest’s Advantage Week as well as Northwest employees.

As the winner of the cover art contest, Schoonover receives a prize package that includes a certificate of accomplishment along with a 32-gigabyte USB flash drive, two copies of the technology guide for her portfolio and a certificate.

The cover art contest’s mission is to draw attention to Northwest’s information technology guide, which provides students with information about campus technology resources, guidelines and policies. The contest also gives students professional experience in the design field while enhancing their portfolios and résumés.

Fourteen student designers submitted covers to the 11th annual contest. The s19ubmissions are critiqued and voted on by a panel of judges that include representatives from the local and campus community, including the departments of Fine and Performing Arts and Information Systems.