"Imagine" 2016 Winter Edition National Student Poetry Contest
(Original Submission Deadline of October 31, 2016) - Winners Announced March 30, 2017.

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Click here to read the poems by the Division Winners (1st, 2nd, and 3rd place)

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Division I
(grades 3-5)

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Division Winner – Camille Ollard
2nd Place – Siena Lee  
3rd Place – Talayla Kieper

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Division II
(grades 6-7)

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Division Winner – Alexander Ashman 
2nd Place - Isabel Yates 
3rd Place - Julia McNairy

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Division III
(grades 8-9)

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Division Winner - Ariana Williams
2nd Place – Noordeep Kaur  
3rd Place -  Tatum Brown 

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Division IV
(grades 10-12)

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Division Winner - Wilson Haims
2nd Place - Emily Kombe
3rd Place - Ashleigh Baker

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Editor's Choice Award and Grand Prize Winner
Wilson Haims for poem entitled "A Season For Blueberries"

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"School's Out Shopping Spree" Winner
Wendy Garcia (Entry entitled "For You")

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Laptop Computer, Tablet, or iPod Touch Winner
Robert Mach (Entry entitled "Descriptions of My Love")

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Amazon Gift Card Winners
Nicolas Guerra (Entry entitled "Trapped")
Livia Abel (Entry entitled "Animal")
Raylen Moye (Entry entitled "The Light")
Olivia Peretto (Entry entitled "In the Dark")
Laura Hovland (Entry entitled "October")
Brian Donel Domingo Grace (Entry entitled "The Rainforest")
Lacey Martin (Entry entitled "The Beauty of Our Youth")
Kyle Moyer (Entry entitled "Sadness")
Taylor Brown (Entry entitled "The Sounds of Life")
Fabian Dominguez (Entry entitled "The Boy and the Wolf")

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 Top Educator Award Winners
Matthew McGevna of The High School of Sports Management in Brooklyn, NY
Laura Filbeck of Ishi Hills Middle School in Oroville, CA
David Lerner of Somerville High School in Somerville, NJ
Caitlin Overman of Schuylkill Valley Middle School in Leesport, PA
Maureen Van Moffaert of Saint John the Evangelist School in Watertown, CT
Jaime McClure of San Tan Elementary School in Gilbert, AZ
Amy Williamson of Griffin High School in Griffin, GA
Melinda Turner of Heritage Christian Academy in New Tazewell, TN
Casey Long of Shiloh High School in Hume, IL
Josh Henderson of Croydon Village School in Newport, NH

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 2016 Winter Edition Spirit of Education Award Winner
Blacksburg Elementary School of Blacksburg, SC