Winning Entries
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"Talented" 2012 National Student Poetry Contest
(Original Submission Deadline of April 30, 2012) - Winners Announced September 30, 2012.
Click here to read the poems by the Division Winners (1st, 2nd, and 3rd place)
Division I
(grades 3-5)
Division Winner - Ari Gebhardt
2nd Place - Stefanie Smolak
3rd Place - Noor Khader
Division II
(grades 6-7)
Division Winner - Danielle Scharfenberg
2nd Place - Katie Hanners
3rd Place - Landon Bailey
Division III
(grades 8-9)
Division Winner - May Li
2nd Place - Victoria Bush
3rd Place - Kaitlin Ford
Division IV
(grades 10-12)
Division Winner - Lloyd Thomas Smith III
2nd Place - Chelsea Edwards
3rd Place - Josephine Kim
Editor's Choice Award and Grand Prize Winner
Lloyd Thomas Smith III for poem entitled, "The Rose Who Dreamed"
"School's Out Shopping Spree" Winner
Hannah Grove
Laptop Computer or iPod Touch Winner
Rebekah Jones
VISA Gift Card Winners
Ashlynn Bailey
Ethan Gheysen
Carter Green
Marena Morris
Thomas Montenegro
Celia Dopp
Alexsis Lever
Cole Dunn
Kobe Arismendi
Ian Jenkins
2012 Spirit of Education Award Winner
Isbell Middle School of Santa Paula, CA