The Mountain States Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is proud to announce the winners of their Student Essay Contest – A Tribute to Moral Courage: Standing Up Against Injustice. Using the Holocaust as a backdrop, middle and high school students were asked to write about an individual who demonstrated moral courage, how that person’s actions had an impact on the world, and how those actions influence the students today. The winners will receive awards at ADL’s Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program in Denver on May 1, 2014.

For free tickets to the program and for more information or to register online, please go to www.2014ghrp.eventbrite.com or call 303-830-7177 x220.

 

Ten judges chose six winning essays from almost 100 thought-provoking submissions from Colorado and Wyoming.  See below for a list of the winners and to read their prize-winning essays.

 

7-9^th Grade Division Winners

First Place Grade 7-9_Sheridan P_Edith Cavell_The Dauntless

Aurora Hills Middle School, Aurora, CO

Second Place Grade 7-9_Edlla T_Amelia Earhart_Follow Your Dreams

Aurora Hills Middle School, Aurora, CO

Third Place Grade 7-9_Kaytlyn K_I Will Stand_A Tribute To Moral Courage

Farson Eden Middle School, Rock Springs, WY

 

10-12^th Grade Division Winners

First Place Grade 10-12_Jordan D_I Am Yousafzai The Girl Who Stood Up For Education and Got Shot By the Taliban

Rangeview High School, Aurora, CO

Second Place Grade 10-12_Jose P_Sal Castro_The Face of Change

East High School, Denver, CO

Third Place Grade 10-12_Jessica M_An Inspiration

East High School, Denver, CO

 

For almost 100 years, ADL has been fighting hate. Today, ADL is the nation’s premier human relations and civil rights agency combating racism, anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry. Through this student essay contest, ADL continues that work by asking our youth to discover the past of “ordinary” heroes and connect it to their lives today in hopes that we can learn how to make a difference.