SCHOLASTIC AWARDS Six writers and visual artists

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SCHOLASTIC ART & WRITING AWARDS HONOR SIX; WYNN EARNS HIGHEST HONORS

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Each year, thousands of students across the country enter the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards in hopes of earning scholarships and exhibiting or publishing their works. In a banner year, Pace Academy writers and poets racked up 20 awards—tying for the THE VOICES OF second-highest total number of writing awards in the state. Senior A GENERATION LIZZY KAYE earned a visual arts award: a Silver Key in the sculp ture category. Honorable Mention recognition went to junior writers JAYLA WIDEMAN and MADISON AUCHINCLOSS, while seniors LAURA G R A Y ROMIG and ALIVIA WYNN and freshman MILLIE GRAY earned Gold Keys to advance to the national competition. Gray’s Gold Keys came in the poetry category; Romig won in both the poetry and writing portfolio categories, and she claimed six Silver Keys and three Honorable Mentions—bringing her grand total to 11 awards. For Wynn, who also received two Silver Keys for poetry and two Honorable Mentions, Gold Key awards in the poetry and short story categories led to national recognition. Judges selected both

R O M I G of her pieces as American Voices Award nominees, and her poem Victory Garden claimed the prize. The piece received a National Gold Medal and an American Voices Medal—Scholastic Art & Writing’s highest honors.