TOBYHANNA TOWNSHIP -- It may not be time to decorate for Christmas just yet, but some students in the Poconos are getting a head start for a special reason.
The National Park Service selected Pocono Mountain students to decorate Christmas ornaments that will be displayed at the White House.
Art students from Pocono Mountain School District have a special task on their hands: create Christmas ornaments that represent Pennsylvania.
These ornaments will be displayed for the First Family to see on the National Christmas Tree display at the White House.
"I'm actually really excited," said senior Kate Martin. "Obama is going to see this. That is like my biggest thing is that Obama has the possibility of seeing my ornament."
Martin is a member of the school's National Art Honor Society. For her ornament, she chose to paint and sculpt out what best represents the Keystone State.
"This will be the city, forest, and rural, and it's to show that we are complex and we are a really unique state."
Students will decorate 12 globe ornaments for the Pennsylvania tree in Presidential Park.
This is the first time the National Park Service Foundation chose Pocono Mountain School District to take part in the holiday tradition.
"It's really amazing for us to be able to participate in something like this that people can see from all over the country," National Art Honor Society President Devin Natishyn said.
Not only are these students excited to be a part of the National Christmas Tree, but it's also President Obama's last holiday in office, so they are thrilled to be a part of it.
"Their whole lives he has almost been their president. He is someone who is very important in a lot of their memories, so they are able to participate in history in a way that is really unique and really artistic," said art teacher Kristen Miele-Beatty.
Students will finish up the ornaments this week and they will be shipped to Washington, D.C. on Monday.
The annual lighting ceremony at the White House will take place December 1.