Winners of 2009 Essay Contest

Congratulations to all the people who took the time to think about and submit an essay on the topic “Compassion and the Lost Child”.  We received hundreds of essays from over 30 countries.  Everyone who entered made it a difficult chore for all the judges.  So without further delay, here are the winners of the 2009 Essay Contest.  (All winners have been notified, if you are on this list and have not received notification, please get in touch with us.)

Age Group: 17 & under

First Place

Wesley Steeb from Woodinville, WA

Second Place

Kelsey Lagaly from Hot Springs, AR

Honorable Mention

Katherine Hollingsworth from Hurst, TX

Madeline Groserode from Kearney, MO

Age Group: 18 - 22

First Place

Logan Herche from Victor, CA

Second Place

Chloe Metzger from Ewa Beach, HI

Honorable Mention

Jessica Chu from TAIWAN

Stay tuned for more information about the Essay Contest and to read some of the winning essays.

Comments

2 Responses to “Winners of 2009 Essay Contest”

  1. amit on June 16th, 2009 9:05 pm

    hi
    why are most of the winners from US only?
    was the competition for US students only?
    were all interantional students that bad?

  2. Benjamin Bradley on June 17th, 2009 11:06 am

    We received essays from over 30 countries, (several in other languages besides English, in which we had to find specialty judges). But the majority of the essays (close to 90%) came from students living in the United States. So actually the ratio of 1/7 winners being from a country other than the United States was a higher ratio than the 1/10 ratio of entries. Over the past few years, we’ve always had at least one or two non-US based winners.

    We are looking forward to posting some of the winning essays in the next few days for everyone to read and experience.

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