Scholastic Art and Writing Award Winners from DC Private Schools
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The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards (http://www.artandwriting.org/who-we-are/) is notably the country's premiere competition to recognize national excellence by middle and high school students (gr. 7-12) in the areas of Art and Writing. There are 29 sub-categories in Art and Writing (e.g. Photography in Art, Screenplay in Writing). Each year the competition receives approximately 320,000 original submissions from middle and high school students across the country. The first round of the competition awards Gold, Silver, and Bronze Keys in each sub-category by geographic region. The Gold Key recipients, already a notable honor, then go on to the National round of the competition where only a small subset of the Gold Key recipients (I believe around 1,000-1,200 students) are awarded a National Gold or Silver Medal. There are several Scholastic Gold Medal and Silver Medal winners from the DC metro area in both Art and Writing this year.
Here is a list of just this year's Gold Key awards. These private schools may have many more awards at the Silver and Bronze Key levels, but a comprehensive list has not been published at the local level yet. http://www.artandwriting.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2018-Gold-Key-Recipients.pdf Deal Middle School - 1 Duke Ellington School of the Arts - 5 CHEC Bell High School - 1 Georgetown Day School - 15 Georgetown Visitation Prep School - 2 Lab School of Washington - 1 Lowell School - 4 Maret School - 16 National Cathedral School - 11 School Without Walls - 1 Sidwell Friends School - 11 St. Albans School - 2 Washington International School - 1 Washington Latin Public Charter School - 1 |
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Two of the private schools provide additional information about the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards recipients on the school's news link. Georgetown Day School had a total of 33 students receive one of 74 awards, either a Gold or Silver Key, or an Honorable mention. GDS students earned 15 Gold Key awards. https://www.gds.org/page/news-detail?pk=1161292&fromId=198490 National Cathedral School had a total of 31 students receive one of 51 awards, either a Gold or Silver Key, or an Honorable mention. NCS students earned 11 Gold Key awards. https://ncs.cathedral.org/page/news-detail?pk=1161703&fromId=265120 |
Anonymous
| Never heard of it, so I guess it is not something pushed by all schools. |
Anonymous
That must be it. |
Anonymous
My DC was a Gold Key recipient in several categories, and won a Silver Medal at the National level some years ago. This is a very prestigious and very old competition, even if you have never heard of it. I believe the Scholastic Awards were founded back in 1923, and notable alumni recipients include Sylvia Plath, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol, John Updike, Truman Capote, Lena Dunham, Zac Posen, Cy Twombly, Stephen King, Richard Linklater, among others. The schools do not push participation, as students pursue this themselves. In the case of my DC, the school did not know they were submitting their writings until they sought out a teacher signature for some purpose. These are self-motivated, talented students. |
Anonymous
Congrats! Wish I knew about it when I was in school! |
Anonymous
| Thank you. DC came across it through a summer writing workshop they participated in during middle school. In high school DC participated in the Iowa Young Writers program. That was amazing! |
Anonymous
| Never heard of it and the school never mentioned it. |
Anonymous
| The list of winners on 2018 Scholastic Writing:http://www.writopialab.org/programs/scholastic-awards/regions-dc-awards/dc-2018-recipients |
Anonymous
| As the parent of a GDS student who chose the school for its advanced STEM offerings, it is always inspiring to see work of the many talented writers and artists among his classmates. I wish my math/science student had made greater use of the school's excellent English and Creative Writing options, and faculty. |
Anonymous
http://www.writopialab.org/programs/scholastic-awards/regions-dc-awards/dc-2018-recipients |
Anonymous
Wow. That's expensive. |
Anonymous
Well, that . . . or you're just a cretin. |
Anonymous
My daughter did Writopia from 7-12 grade and loved it. She also had multiple key awards and enjoyed submitting to Scholastic Awards. She’s now in college and a creative writing major at a top program. Writopia isn’t any more expensive than travels sports/training - it just depends on what your child loves. |
Anonymous
| Wow, Maret and GDS really did well in this competition! Not surprising, given that they both have excellent arts and humanities offerings. |