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| Media Release, January 18, 2012 |
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Students write about place, win class trips
HYDE PARK, NY -- Teaching the Hudson Valley (THV) is pleased to announce the winners of its first student writing contest. Three winning writers and their classmates will visit the places they wrote about with costs covered by a THV Explore Award.
Aayushi's teacher, Susan Wallace, responded to the announcement with this note, "WOW! We are THRILLED! Thank you so much for offering this opportunity to the future environmentalists and writers of the world!" "Climbing up Bonticou Crag, I split open the wilderness," is the provocative opening line of Looking Topside Down, a poem about the Mohonk Preserve by high school winner Nicole Yang. The middle school winner is seventh grader Emilie Hostetter who wrote a poem about Minnewaska State Park called I Did Not Know. Nicole and Emilie are students of Janine Guadagno at Tabernacle Christian Academy in Poughkeepsie. Read both poems.
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Aayushi Jha, a fifth grader at Main Street School in Irvington, is the elementary school winner. Her essay, Tug of War, describes an experience aboard the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater.