Congrats to our In Character Costume Contest 2021 Winners! This year for the first time we had more faculty and staff costume submissions than student entrants, so big thanks to our UNCA faculty and staff for stepping up, donning a cool costume, and sharing your good spirit with our campus! We have 2 faculty staff winners and 2 student winners this year. All winners will receive a surprise collection of campus and local prizes. Thanks so much to our sponsors Rosetta’s Kitchen, Sovereign Remedies, our friendly library neighbor the Smoothie Lab, Ramsey Library’s own CrAFT Studio. Without you generous folks our gift bags would be so much lighter and less exciting! Deep thanks also go to our library staff who made this happen and naturally to our amazing, costume wearing UNCA student, faculty, and staff family. Ya’ll are the best! Thanks to our Ramsey Library staff also for voting in our winners from all the contestants. With no further ado, here are our 4 winners:
Second Prize, Faculty and Staff Category: UNCA Chemistry Teaching and Research Fellow Amy Defnet’s ‘Just a Jedi Doing Some Experiments.’
![Second Prize, Faculty and Staff Category: UNCA Chemistry Teaching and Research Fellow Amy Defnet's 'Just a Jedi Doing Some Experiments'](http://libjournals.unca.edu/librarynews/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Defnet-768x1024.jpeg)
First Prize, Faculty and Staff Category: UNCA Chemistry Faculty Caitlin McMahon’s ‘Mary Poppins’
![First Prize, Faculty and Staff Category: UNCA Chemistry Faculty Caitlin McMahon's 'Mary Poppins'](http://libjournals.unca.edu/librarynews/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/McMahon-768x1024.jpeg)
Congratulations Professor McMahon and Professor Defnet! Way to go UNCA Chemistry Department: you’ve pulled a clean sweep of our staff/ faculty awards this year!!!
Second Prize, Student Category: John Piland’s ‘Roronoro Zoro’
![Second Prize, Student Category: John Piland's 'Roronoro Zoro'](http://libjournals.unca.edu/librarynews/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Piland-682x1024.jpeg)
First Prize, Student Category: Jacob H. Crawford’s ‘John from the Carousel of Progress’
![First Prize, Student Category: Jacob H. Crawford's 'John from the Carousel of Progress'](http://libjournals.unca.edu/librarynews/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Crawford-682x1024.jpeg)
Congratulations Jacob and John! We love your spirit and so enjoyed having you join us for In Character 2021.
Winners will be contacted individually with details of how to receive their prizes shortly. Thanks to everyone again and we look forward to your participation at our next year’s 2022 In Character Event! Be thinking of your costumes ;D