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Every year, students
across the country compete
within their regions for recognition in art and writing
categories of the Scholastic
Art and Writing Awards.
The awards were created
in 1923, and are the longest
running high school award
competition in the country.
Since then, the awards have
strived to recognize the vision, ingenuity, and talent
of the nations youth, and
provide opportunities for
creative students to be celebrated for their passions.
[The purpose of the
awards is] to give those
high school students who
demonstrate superior talent and achievement in
things of the spirit and of
the mind at least a fraction
of the honors and rewards
accorded to their athletic
classmates for their bodily
skills, founder Maurice R.
Robinson said.
The awards are differentiated into multiple categories: Gold Keys, Silver Keys
and Honorable Mentions.
All are applicable to the
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but only portfolios can
receive Gold Keys.
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Honorable mentions represent third place.
Every year the number
of participants increases,
and more teens become
a part of the Scholastic
community.
In our school alone,
there were 15 art winners and three writing
winners.
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Gold Key Portfolio

winners are seniors Sarah
Baniak and Amanda Dalka.
Gold Key Individual
winners are Sarah Baniak
for Photography, David
Cieslinski for Drawing Oil
Pastel, Gabriella Flores for
Drawing, Maggie Pollak
for Drawing and Painting, Hannah Randazzo for
Drawing and Photography,
Rachel Omaits for Writing
and Junyao Yang for Drawing.
Silver Key Individual winners are Taylor Bell
for Photography, David
Cieslinski for Drawing Oil
Pastel, Amanda Dalka for
Film & Animation, Gabriella Flores for Drawing,
Samantha McKean for
Photography and Hannah
Randazzo for Drawing,
Sydney Watros for Poetry,
and Photography.
Students who received
Honorable Mentions include Sarah Colpaert for
Photography, Clarysse Lake
for Photography, Samantha
McKean for Jewelry, PJ
Michalski for Film & Animation, Maggie Pollak for
Painting, Alexa Sweet for
Drawing, Alexis Van Mill
for Photography, Nicholas
Vasseur for Photography,
Jessica Wood for Drawing,
MAria French for Writing
and Junyao Yang for Drawing.
Students from around
the country compete every
year for recognition. Our
school has produced multiple talented artists and
writers.

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