36th Annual Safe Sober T-Shirt Design Contest Winner Announced at the Career Center High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

The Daggett Shuler Safe Sober program is pleased to announce that Jerrin Moore, a junior at Atkins High School and the Career Center High School, has been selected as the winner of the 2026 Safe Sober T-Shirt Design Contest. His winning design was unveiled at a surprise presentation during his art class at the Career Center. Jerrin was presented with the first T-shirt from the press, framed for display, alongside attorneys David Daggett and Griff Shuler, his mother, and his little sister. Jerrin’s art teacher, Ms. Bibb, was also awarded a $1,000 grant for her classroom.

Distinguished guests joining David and Griff included Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Jones, Winston-Salem Police Chief William Penn, Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough, Forsyth County Commissioner Don Martin, and many more representing the WS/FC School Board and the Safe Sober Teen Center at the William G. White Jr. Family YMCA.

“I just felt incredibly accomplished that I had created a product so nice that it was chosen,” Jerrin said after receiving his winning T-shirt design and its $1,000 prize. He then shared his creative process with Cable 2 photojournalist, Kevin Wrenn: “I was looking at some of the designs a couple of years ago, and I saw the geometric shapes, the colors purple, red, and yellow were used often, so I wanted to do my own take on that whole design motif. And I had circles, I had a fun design, and ‘Safe Sober’ in the biggest font that would reasonably make sense,” he said.

This win may be the beginning of a promising career in graphic design for Jerrin, as he told Kevin, “I’m really considering it, after this. I think graphic design might be my calling.”

Safe Sober is a non-profit organization co-founded in 1991 by David Daggett of Daggett Shuler, Attorneys at Law, originally known as Safe Sober Prom Night. “The goal of Safe Sober is to provide ongoing awareness of the dangers of drugs and alcohol and to encourage positive peer pressure to reduce underage drinking and drug use,” explains Griff Shuler.

Now celebrating its 36th year and still expanding, Safe Sober encourages high school students to make the most of their young lives throughout their high school experience through a message of leadership, guidance, and direction. The program is active across the greater Triad region of North Carolina. To date, more than 600,000 students have made the “The Right Choice!” pledge and have been positively influenced by the Safe Sober program.

As part of the Safe Sober program, Triad students submit their own designs for consideration to be printed on the front of thousands of T-shirts. These T-shirts are given to area high school and middle school students and are also distributed throughout the community. The winner of the T-shirt design contest receives a $1,000 scholarship and has their name printed on the back of more than 16,000 T-shirts.  Schools have historically incorporated these T-shirts into their prom and graduation festivities to encourage students to be safe and sober during this active spring season.