"Futures" 2018 National Student Poetry Contest
(Original Submission Deadline of April 30, 2018) - Winners Announced September 30, 2018.

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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 – Brayden Rice
2nd Place – Ana McCallum-Moore  
3rd Place – Violet Kinsey

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Division II
(grades 6-7)

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Division Winner – Alex Beynon 
2nd Place – Alessandra Brown 
3rd Place – Sarah Taylor

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Division III
(grades 8-9)

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Division Winner – Laura Ospina
2nd Place – Tiffanie Huang  
3rd Place – Angela Albert

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Division IV
(grades 10-12)

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Division Winner – Kimmy Daniels
2nd Place – Graham Everhart
3rd Place – Katherine Wang

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Editor's Choice Award and Grand Prize Winner

Laura Ospina for poem entitled "I Won’t Forget"

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"School's Out Shopping Spree" Winner
Angel Lenker (Entry entitled "Wonder")

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Laptop Computer, Tablet, or iPod Touch Winner
Christian Ryan (Entry entitled "Bruised")

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Amazon Gift Card Winners
Steven Eliass (Entry entitled "Never Give Up")
Amy Cremers (Entry entitled "If I Could Fly")
Uswa Prasla (Entry entitled "Encountering a Spider")
Seth Stukey (Entry entitled "Fred, the Dog")
Hannah Hermansen (Entry entitled "Why?")
Abigail McDonald (Entry entitled "The Valley of God")
Kaitlyn Edwards (Entry entitled "Left Behind")
Michael Todd (Entry entitled "The Normality of Normal Is the End of Creativity")
Hunter Dunn (Entry entitled "Living In a Fantasy")
Cynthia Tobiasson (Entry entitled "What I Think of You")

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Top Educator Award Winners
Ginger Bell of Our Lady of Fatima School in Los Banos, CA
Randi O’Sullivan of Great Hollow Middle School in Nesonset, NY
Glenda Kitten of Lubbock Christian School in Lubbock, TX
Lindsey Knight of Cushing High School in Cushing, OK
Mark Morici of Washington Elementary School in Lodi, NJ
Elizabeth Carver of Smithton High School in Smithton, MO
Eric Gerst of Morristown Junior High School in Morristown, MN
Shirley Madison of Clarksville Elementary School in Clarksville, VA
David Webb of Saint Columba School in Bloomsburg, PA
Christopher Moore of Pace High School in Pace, FL

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2018 Spirit of Education Award Winner
Ernest Becker Middle School of Las Vegas, NV