Nome 4th-grader wins 2016 Iditarod button contest

While the last great race is still months away, the Iditarod button design contest already has a champion: Ayla Knodel, a fourth-grader at Nome Elementary School.
Ayla Knodel won the 2016 Iditarod button design contest. Her artwork will appear on the commemorative buttons sold along the trail this March. Photo: Laura Kraegel, KNOM.
Knodel took first place in the annual contest that has Alaska students create artwork for the commemorative button sold along the trail each March. Having submit