The logo design competition was a voluntary homework exercise for year 7 and 8 pupils ahead of the trust's first major initiative, a clean air and warm homes expo this weekend.
The trust aimed to help residents improve the health and wellbeing of the town and the expo would offer everything there was to know about heating insulation and energy options, chairman Gerard Hall said.
The children's logo designs will be displayed as a major feature of the Arrowtown School stand at the expo.
The school had been approached to get in on the logo-designing process because the pupils were the ‘‘future movers and shakers of this town'', Mr Hall said.
‘‘They influence what happens in the town as much as anyone and we want to utilise the pupils in terms of their skills and abilities,'' Mr Hall said.
It was also an opportunity for the children to become more informed and involved in the clean air and warm homes project, he said.
‘‘It's really important to get young people's perspective of what the issues are and more importantly, to get their input into what they believe the solutions are.''
School principal Robin Harris has already picked out some of the best logo efforts by the pupils and, next week, he and the trust members will announce the winning logo.
The top design will then be given to a professional graphic artist who will incorporate the child's original work and ‘‘dress it up'' into a suitable form, Mr Hall said.
The best of the best will be rewarded with trust-sponsored prizes.
The town's air quality monitoring device is located on the school boundary, so pupils have already had classroom discussion about the issue before the logo competition.
As a result, it was clear the young designers behind three of Mr Harris' top picks knew their stuff and had put a lot of thought into their logos when they explained the meaning of them this week.
‘‘I just thought about the environment and how heating homes will help it,'' 11-year-old Bom Thepsorn said.
‘‘I sort of thought of ways that can be economic that don't pollute the air.
‘‘I came up with the idea of a recycling circle that can be used all over again. It uses less energy and wastes less power,'' he said.
Emma Gamson (12) had a different approach.
‘‘I have initials with a house and arrows that represent heat. Then there's a blue background with sparkles which represents clean air.''
George Dennison (11) used the trust initials to get his message across, with embellishments such as heat waves off the ‘‘W'' and an ‘‘H'' made from chimneys.
- The clean air and warm homes expo will be held at the Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall this Saturday and Sunday, August 2 and 3, from 10am to 4pm.
