The big day is finally here, Erie News Now has this year's winner of our How Cool is Your School contest. This year's theme was helping others. 

The winner of this year's contest is Union City Elementary!!  They racked up 15,108 votes!

That means they're the winner of a $5,000 ad campaign for the nonprofit United Way of Erie County, an iPad and a pizza party.

And we'd like to recognized all the school that participated in this year's contest.

McKean Elementary School came in a close second place with 14,988 votes, followed by North Western High School and Cathedral Prep and Mother Teresa Academy.

*NOTE: This is story has been updated to accurately reflect final vote totals.