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Students - Showcase
Award Winners
- Yokosuka ESL Students Win Connect with the Future
Contest
The kindergarten and first grade English-as-a-Second-Language
(ESL) class at The Sullivans Elementary School in Yokosuka, Japan,
were selected as winners in the national Connect with the Future Contest
sponsored by the Scholastic Software Clubs. The students created a
poster with pictures and predictions of life in the year 2025. The
class will receive a Gateway Multimedia Computer and 40 CD cases.
- Guam Students Are Winners in 2001 Letters to
the Front Worldwide Contest
Three Guam South Elementary/Middle School students—R.
and L. (under 12 category) and N. (12-18 category) were local first
place winners in the 2001 Letters to the Front Worldwide Letter Writing
Contest. Thousands of letters from students at both Department of
Defense schools and civilian schools from 49 states and over 160 military
installations worldwide were entered in the contest, which was developed
in 1999 to generate letters of support for American service members
stationed overseas. The best letters in each age group won prizes
ranging from T-shirts to computers to scholarship funds.
- DoDDS Pacific Students Win School Bus Safety
Poster Contest
Three DoDDS-Pacific students won first, second, and
third place in the International Division of the National School Bus
Safety Week October 14-27, 2001, Poster Contest sponsored by the National
School Transportation Association.
First place winner was H. of Seoul Middle School, Seoul, Korea; second
place was E. of Lester Middle School, Okinawa, Japan; and third place
was C. of Sollars Elementary School, Misawa, Japan.
Winners were announced at the National Association of Pupil Transportation
conference in Nashville, Tennessee, and also were named in a recent
issue of the School Bus Fleet national publication.
- DoDEA Students win Armed Services YMCA Art Contest
Three DoDEA students were selected as first place
winners, and three as second place winners in the Armed Services YMCA
Art Contest 2002. Winners were selected from each branch of the armed
services and the National Guard. A number of DoDEA students also received
certificates of honorable mention.
First place winners will have their artwork included on a poster promoting
Military Family Week in November and will receive a $500 savings bond.
Second place winners will each receive a $100 bond. The winning artwork,
along with a list of students awarded honorable mention, appears on
the Armed Services YMCA Web site:
www.asymca.org/art_contest.htm
First Place Winners:
- M., a sixth grader at Patch Elementary School, Stuttgart,
Germany
- M., a fourth grader at Laurel Bay Intermediate School,
Laurel Bay, South Carolina
- A., a fifth grader at Wilson Elementary School, Fort
Benning, Georgia
Second Place Winners:
- B., a fifth grader at Wilson Elementary School, Fort
Benning, Georgia
- A., a fifth grader at Hohenfels Elementary School,
Hohenfels, Germany
- J., a fourth grader at Bitburg Elementary School,
Bitburg, Germany
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