“Self Portrait,” by Jenny Aucott of Free State, Best of Show winner.

Lawrence high school students dominated competition in this year’s “Kansans … As Talented as you Think” art competition organized by the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas.

Students from Lawrence took six of the eight first-place awards.

That includes Best of Show, which went to Jenny Aucott, a Free State High School senior. She won for self-portrait drawing.

Other first-place winners from Lawrence were Charika Billie, FSHS, painting; Austin Noll, FSHS, drawing; Becca Kellerman, Lawrence High School, black-and-white photography; Ally Koppes, LHS, pastel; and Hannah Lodwick, FSHS, digital imaging.

This year’s contest, the fourth annual, drew 300 entries, twice as many as previous years.

Some of the entries will be included in a 2010 calendar published by Native Sons and Daughters.