Andrea Johnson/MDN Stephanie Beauchamp, Trinity First Response manager, helps 8-year-old Shay Remington adjust her seat belt before Shay took a ride home from Longfellow Elementary in the ambulance on Wednesday. Shay was the winner of a coloring contest and the ambulance ride was her prize.

Longfellow Elementary second-grader Shay Remington got to take the good kind of ambulance ride on Monday — the kind where no one was sick or hurt.

She figured that would be the best time to ride in an ambulance. “I’ve never been in an ambulance before!” she said.

Shay, 8, was the winner of a coloring contest sponsored by Trinity Health’s First Response ambulance service. Her prize was a ride home from school in the ambulance.

She colored a mask in a teal color, drew crosses like the Red Cross, and drew and labeled pictures of different types of medical equipment on the mask.

“We absolutely loved her honesty,” said Stephanie Beauchamp, Trinity First Response manager, who came up with the idea for the coloring contest.

Representatives from Trinity First Response spoke with second-graders about the ambulance service at Longfellow as well as Edison and Sunnyside Elementaries last week. The coloring contest was open to second-graders at all of the elementary schools and Shay was the big winner. Beauchamp said the ambulance service had also contacted other elementaries in Minot but it wasn’t possible to arrange for presentations at the other schools.

Angie Dangel, Shay’s second-grade teacher, said the children enjoyed the visit from the ambulance service and learned a lot about the emergency services. Beauchamp said the visits are good outreach and might even inspire some future Trinity employees.