Contact: Sammy McDavid
Two Mississippi State University interior design majors are among seven top student winners of a national lighting competition.
Cristi C. Moore of Starkville took first-place honors and a $1,500 cash prize in the residential fluorescent category of the 21st annual Cooper Lighting Design Competition. Her design involved a 20-by-20-foot living/work space that employed Metalux lighting.
Lindsay D. Chance of Forest received an honorable mention and a $250 prize in the residential recessed downlighting category. Her entry involved the lighting of living and dining rooms in a single-family home.
The honors were presented during Design Power '97, the American Society of Interior Designers' recent conference and exposition in Seattle, Wash. The awards are sponsored annually by Cooper Lighting, a major manufacturing division of Cooper Industries of Elk Grove Village, Ill.
Other student winners came from East Carolina University, Louisiana Tech University, Ringling School of Art and Design, University of Georgia, and Virginia Tech University.
Both Moore, a senior, and Chance, a junior, were students in Robin T. Carroll's color and lighting class when they entered the competition during the 1996-97 school year. Carroll is a lecturer in the School of Human Sciences' nationally accredited interior design program.
Moore, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cook, is a graduate of Starkville High School.
Chance, a Forest High School graduate, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tony G. Chance.