Congratulations to participants in the Scholastic Writing Contest

February 7th, 2013 by Michael

The National Writing Project in New Hampshire is pleased to announce that the Scholastic Writing Contest/Middle High School Voices judging has been completed.  Out of almost 400 entries, our panel of judges has selected 16 gold key winners, 70 silver keys and 85 honorable mentions.  We received writing from students in grades 7-12 from all areas of the state.   The writing this year was exceptionally strong.  Our 16 gold key winners will have their work considered for awards at the national level.   These winners are:

Owen Ammann, Helen Copp, Alexander Ireland, and Emma Sassaman from Oyster River Middle School

Anna Deloi (2 pieces) who is home-schooled.

Hannah Eaton from Coe-Brown Northwood Academy

June Han, Christina Lee,  Zachary Young and Catherine Zhu from Phillips Exeter Academy

Karlee Paradis from Newmarket Junior/Senior High School

Hunter Rief from Oyster River High School

Alicia Sanders-Zakre  (2 pieces) from Concord High School.

Seunghyun Yeo from Moultonborough Academy

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this contest, and to the teachers who worked with them to revise and edit their work.

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