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