2023 Prize Winners
Congratulations to our 2023 contest prize winners! This year's contest received more than seventy submissions. Our judges acknowledged nearly half of them with the recognitions below.
To view or read the creative works of these and other participating students, please visit our 2023 virtual exhibition.
Category: PROSE
First Place - Prose
Cielo Cuenca, Grade 10, John Adams High School
Title: Little Brother
Second Place - Prose
Jocelyn Fulcher, Grade 10, John Adams High School
Title: Listen To Their Stories
Third Place- Prose
Alexis Kish, Grade 10, John Adams High School
Title: Misery to Live
Honorable Mention - Prose
Rosa Morel, Grade 10, John Adams High School
Title: Glimpses
Abena Antwi, Grade 10, John Adams High School
Title: The Importance of Education on the Holocaust
Category: POETRY
First Place - Poetry
Lily Francis Lemrow-Collazo-Rosario, Grade 10, John Adams High School
Title: Shoes
Second Place (tie) - Poetry
Yofi Sandock, Grade 10, John Adams High School
Title: We Are Taught To Love
Second Place (tie) - Poetry
Daja Reeves, Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: Mind & Body
Honorable Mention - Poetry
Alan Puga, Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: Worn Shoes
Lydia Fitzgerald, Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: Differences In Hope
Nancy Molina-Silerio, Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: Away
Diana Silva Esparza , Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: Life
Lakota Orr, Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: “What Was Lost”
Brooklynn Mantle, Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: Never Forget Them
Hannah Alonso, Grade 12, Elkhart High School
Title: Taken(edited version of previously submitted)
Vivian Nguyen, Grade 10, John Adams High School
Title: Final Moments
Category: Art
First Place - Art
Joseph Nemeti, Grade 12, Saint Joseph High School
Title: PND (People Next Door)
Second Place - Art
Ryleigh Kepperling, Grade 12, John Glenn High school
Title: Through the Nights
Third Place - Art
Julia Champion, Grade 10, John Adams High School
Title: "Lice Feeders"
Honorable Mention - Art
Ethan Schelstraete, Grade 12, John Adams High School
Title: Sir Winton
Briella Buchmann, Grade 11, Mishawaka High School
Title: Dachau: International Memorial
Keaton Smith, Grade 12, Saint Joseph High School
Title: The Puppeteer of Death
Mckenzie (Auggie) Covert, Grade 11, Penn High School
Title: Loss
Etta Forry, Grade 12, Penn High School
Title: An Evening Stroll with Danger
Timothy Gerardot, Grade 11, Penn High School
Title: Struggle at Neuschwanstein
Nohathela Chalulu, Grade 12, Penn High School
Title: Hope Prevails
Josephine Lawrence, Grade 12, John Adams High School
Title: Shalom and Salem
Evan Eggleson, Grade 12, Saint Joseph High School
Title: Then and Now
MIranda Hanchar, Grade 12, Penn High School
Title: Between Life and Death
Javanna Mwalija, Grade 10, John Adams High School
Title: Arbeit Macht Frei
