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Elevating Moral Courage to Motivate and Inspire – 2021 Essay Winners

Educators, students and families have endured a school year like no other with the only constant being change. ADL was grateful to have been able to provide a familiar essay contest in 2021 for educators and students, A Tribute to Moral Courage: Standing Up Against Injustice. Students submitted over 150 essays from across our region, researching those that have given us hope in the past and so

Past, Present and Future – Moral Courage is All Around. ADL’s 2020 Student Essay Winners

In the last two months, we have all experienced a rapidly changing world in every aspect of our lives. One thing that has not changed during this unprecedented time is the strength of students’ ideas and voices. Just as in every generation before them, today’s students are digesting the changing world around them, analyzing critical issues, making choices and taking

Learning from the Past to Shape the Future – ADL’s 2019 Student Essay Winners Make the Connection

Seven skilled student writers rose to the top of 275 essays submitted from Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming to ADL’s 2019 student Essay Contest A Tribute to Moral Courage: Standing Up Against Injustice. Twenty-four judges were challenged to choose six winning essays and for the first time, they had a tie in one of the winning positions, because there were

Making Personal Connections to History wins ADL’s 2018 A Tribute to Moral Courage Essay Contest

  Six students connected the past with their present. They found lessons in those that exemplified moral courage and the Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Region is proud to recognize all six student winners, their families and teachers, at the 37th Annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program on April 24, 2018.  These skilled student writers  rose to the top of almost 250 essays submitted

2017 ADL’s Essay Winners Link the Past with their Present

  ADL was proud to recognize all six student winners, their families and teachers, at the 36th Annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program on April 25, 2017.  These skilled student writers connected those that exemplified moral courage from the past with their present realities, learning from the lessons that have been left for all of us. These six students’ essays from Lovell,