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Baldwin High School student Maekyla Massey. Credit: Baldwin School District
Four high school seniors from Long Island won a local essay contest that focused on topics such as diversity, equity, inclusion and structural racism.
The students — Shania Lall of Freeport High School, Maekyla Massey of Baldwin High School, Aidan Morgan of Malverne High School and Dayaneliz Veliz of Walt Whitman High School in Huntington Station — took the top spots in the 2024 “Raise Your Voice” student essay contest, coordinated by Syosset-based civil rights organization ERASE Racism.
Participants wrote 400- to 500-word essays on how the aforementioned topics are being addressed in their schools and how their teaching could be improved. Students were asked to incorporate at least one personal experience into their essays.
The winners received $500 college scholarships made possible by SCOPE Educational Services in Smithtown.
“As a future speech pathologist, I harbor an unwavering passion to inspire and guide underrepresented children to secure their spot at the table and demand equity through confident communication,” Lall wrote in her winning essay.
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Morgan wrote: “Implementing comprehensive diversity training for teachers at the district level can give them the tools they need to navigate sensitive topics and create inclusive spaces.”
Entries were judged on criteria including content, clear expression and originality.
World food day contest.
Four Long Island students have been named first-place winners of the 36th Annual World Food Day Essay Contest coordinated by an Amityville-based nonprofit, Stop World Hunger. This year’s contest, which received 967 entries from 18 local schools, challenged participants to answer this question: “What can I do to stop world hunger?”
Winners, their schools and their divisions were Gemma Franzetti, Our Lady of Victory in Floral Park, primary division (grades 1-3); Maeve Moroney, Our Lady of Victory, intermediate division (grades 4-6); Mason Ring, Saints Philip and James School in St. James, junior high division (grades 7-8); and Lindsey Licastesi, Sacred Heart Academy in Hempstead, high school division (grades 9-12).
Each winning student received a $100 savings bond.
Songwriting winner.
Valley Stream South High School senior Tabitha Moore was one of eight winners nationwide of the 2023-24 Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge, coordinated by the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre.
Winners received $2,500 scholarships from the National Music Publishers’ Association’s S.O.N.G.S. (Supporting Our Next Generation of Songwriters) Foundation. They will have their songs compiled into a songbook and print-at-home edition by Concord Theatricals. They also worked with mentors to prepare their music for a performance by Broadway artists in Manhattan.
Moore was selected for her approximately three-minute acoustic song, “What Did Love Do to You?,” which she described as a duet meant to question “the meaning behind the rough boundaries set between two people.”
Four Long Island teachers — Francesco Iannucci of Baldwin Middle School, Maureen Ryan of West Side School in Syosset and Kubra Atkurk and Kristin Pirozzi of Longwood High School in Middle Island — were named winners of Applebee’s 8th Annual “Above and ‘BEE’yond” Teacher Essay Contest, which encouraged local students to write essays nominating a teacher who had the biggest impact on their educational journey.
The winning teachers received $500 to improve their classrooms, and the opportunity to host an end of the school year celebration at their local Applebee’s restaurant.
“Acknowledging the unwavering dedication of local teachers in nurturing and inspiring our youth is a profound privilege,” said Brian McDonnell, the Long Island director of operations for Doherty Enterprises, which owns and operates Applebee’s.
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Best text contest 2023 winners, tuesday, june 25, 2024.
The UMass Writing Program is pleased to announce the winners of the Best Text Contest for 2023. The winning texts can be accessed in the UMass Best Text Collection .
The Marcia Curtis Best Text Contest for Writing, Identity, and Power (Englwrit 111) honors Marcia Curtis’ contributions to the Writing Program and its Englwrit 111 course. Curtis served as a teacher and administrator in the Writing Program for more than two decades, leading the Program as Director from 2000 to 2003 and making essential contributions to the Program that are still seen today. During her time in the Writing Program, Curtis, along with Anne Herrington, was instrumental in the development of Englwrit 111. In 1990, Curtis helped redesign Englwrit 111 in order to better represent the diversity of students at UMass and allow students to share their voices.
The Charles Moran Best Text Contest for College Writing (Englwrit 112/112H) and Junior Year Writing courses honors Charles Moran, the founding director of the Writing Program, who served in that capacity from 1982 to 1990. He created the Program around many of the principles that still guide it today. He was particularly dedicated to student writing being the primary text of a writing course and ensuring that students have an audience beyond just the teacher. To that end, he firmly believed in publishing and celebrating student work. In that tradition, the Writing Program highlights student essays in both the Student Writing Anthology (SWA, used in College Writing courses) and the Best Text Contest awards given in his name. Learn more about the Best Text Contest (as well as how to submit your work for the 2024 contest) on our Best Text page .
First Place:
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Third Place: Tanush Santosh Deshpande, "Whispers of A Young Writer: Influence of My First Childhood Novel" Honorable Mention:
First Place: Olivia Soolman, “Importance of Intersectionality in Discussions of Menstrual Injustice and Period Poverty in the United States” Second Place: Tiffany Njugi, “Black Women Maternal Mortality and Health Disparity Crisis” Third Place: Anna Lin, “Preserving the World’s Truths Letter to the United Nations’ Secretary General” Honorable Mention:
First Place: Tung Viet Le, “Biomimicry throughout History” Second Place: Declan Carroll, “Horror Movies Are Vital” Third Place: Hallie Farmer, “Gender Expression in Relation to Sexual Assault” Honorable Mention: Fatima Anjum, “The ‘Evergreen’ Hills”
Best Short:
Best Long: Savni Sarolkar, ““Call the Midwife”: An Argument Against the Medicalization of Pregnancy and Childbirth” Best Multimodal: Sophia He, “Final Consonant Cluster Reduction in African American English”
Thank you to all who submitted, and congratulations to this year's winners!
Arkansas' Hagen Smith and Wake Forest's Chase Burns headline the 2024 college pitching crop after breaking the NCAA Division I record for strikeout rate. Both project as easy top-10 picks and potential frontline starters.
Yet the college pitching class isn't as deep as once hoped. East Carolina's Trey Yesavage is the clear third-best college arm, but Iowa's Brody Brecht and Mississippi State's Jurrangelo Cijntje are the only other likely first-rounders. Wake Forest's Josh Hartle and Michael Massey, Louisiana State's Thatcher Hurd, Tennessee's Drew Beam and Alabama's Ben Hess entered the year with first-round aspirations but didn't live up to expectations.
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Top prospects: Condon | Bazzana | Caglianone | Kurtz | Montgomery Smith | Burns | Wetherholt | Griffin | Culpepper
You may notice that the rankings below doesn't totally reflect the order on MLB Pipeline's Draft Top 200 . That's because we've listed the pitchers based on how they'll be featured on our upcoming Draft Top 250, which will be unveiled Wednesday night. We've also included Florida two-way star Jac Caglianone as a pitcher, though his pro future almost certainly will be as a slugger.
1. Hagen Smith, LHP, Arkansas ( No. 6 on Top 200) The Southeastern Conference pitcher of the year, Smith broke Ryan Wagner's 21-year-old D-I record by averaging 17.3 strikeouts per nine innings and also led the nation in average-against (.144). He features a deceptive 94-97 mph fastball that reaches 100 and a mid-80s slider with sweep and depth.
2. Chase Burns, RHP, Wake Forest ( No. 5 ) After spending his first two college seasons at Tennessee, Burns finished right behind Smith with 17.2 strikeouts per nine while topping D-I with 191 whiffs. The Atlantic Coast Conference pitcher of the year throws harder than Smith (sitting at 97-99 mph, topping out at 102) but his fastball gets hit more than it should. He also has a tight upper-80s slider that batters can't touch and flashes a plus curveball and changeup.
3. Trey Yesavage, RHP, East Carolina ( No. 11 ) Yesavage overcame a partially collapsed lung (the result of dry needling treatment gone awry) to outduel Burns in the NCAA regionals, capping a season in which he won American Athletic Conference pitcher of the year accolades and finished among the national leaders in ERA (2.02, fourth), strikeouts (145, fifth) and average-against (.154, second). He operates with three plus pitches: a 93-95 mph fastball that hits 98 with carry, a mid-80s slider/cutter and a low-80s splitter.
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4. Brody Brecht, RHP, Iowa ( No. 21 ) Brecht spent two years pulling double duty as an Iowa pitcher and wide receiver before giving up football and should become the Hawkeyes' first baseball first-rounder since Tim Costo in 1990. His explosive 96-99 mph fastball peaks at 101 and his 87-91 mph slider is just as unhittable with plenty of horizontal and vertical action, helping him rank fifth in D-I in strikeout rate (14.7 per nine innings), though he still lacks polish.
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5. Jurrangelo Cijntje, RHP/LHP, Mississippi State ( No. 31 ) A natural left-hander, Cijntje began throwing right-handed as a 6-year-old and became famous for his switch-pitching with Curacao at the 2016 Little League World Series. He draws Marcus Stroman comps as a righty with a mid-90s fastball and a mid-80s slider. He exudes more of a reliever vibe as a low-slot lefty with a low-90s fastball and a low-80s sweeper.
6. Jonathan Santucci, LHP, Duke ( No. 34 ) Santucci battled his control all spring and missed three late-season starts with a rib injury, but he's still an athletic left-hander who struck out 90 in 58 innings and can miss bats with three pitches. He works with a 92-96 mph fastball with carry and armside run, a low-80s slider with two-plane break at its best and a fading mid-80s changeup.
7. Ben Hess, RHP, Alabama ( No. 45 ) Built like Lance Lynn at 6-foot-5 and 250 pounds, Hess rebounded from a flexor strain a year ago to set an Alabama career record with 13.3 strikeouts per nine innings. His two best weapons are a 92-96 mph fastball that maxes out at 99 with run and carry and a mid-80s slider with two-plane depth.
8. Luke Holman, RHP, Louisiana State ( No. 48 ) Holman doesn't have the wow stuff of the other pitchers on this list, but he has advanced feel for his craft and replaced Paul Skenes as LSU's No. 1 starter after serving as Alabama's ace in 2023. His best pitch is a low-80s slider with depth that he also locates well, while his low-90s fastball plays better than its velocity thanks to his command and induced vertical break.
9. Jac Caglianone, 1B/LHP, Florida ( No. 3 ) The John Olerud Award winner as college baseball's best two-way player, Caglianone set Florida records for single-season (35) and career (75) home runs while tying an NCAA mark by going deep in nine straight games. While power will be his ticket in pro ball, he's also a physical left-hander with a mid-90s fastball that climbs to 99 mph, a mid-80s slider and a sinking upper-70s changeup.
10. Ryan Johnson, RHP, Dallas Baptist ( No. 43 ) Johnson has a quirky self-taught delivery that works for him, as evidenced by his Conference USA pitcher of the year award, 2.29 ERA (eighth in D-I), 151 strikeouts (fourth) and 10.8 K/BB ratio (third). He creates deception while pounding the strike zone with a lively low-80s slider and mid-90s fastball highlighting a five-pitch arsenal.
June 24, 2024
By Mattie Price
Kentucky Derby guests make their way through crowds on Saturday, May 6, 2023, at Churchill Downs in Louisville. With points from both Cutrer and Towle’s wins, UK placed 10th overall in the intercollegiate photojournalism contest. Photo by Abby Cutrer.
The University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Media in the College of Communication and Information earned 10th place in the 2023-24 Hearst Intercollegiate Photojournalism Contest. Photojournalism is one of several categories in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program, a national student contest that indicates excellence in accredited journalism programs across the nation. Two UK journalism students entered each photojournalism subcategory, News and Features and Picture Story/Series.
Abbey Cutrer, a rising journalism senior and incoming Kentucky Kernel editor-in-chief, earned the 12th place spot for News and Features subcategory for her photos featuring subjects such as Shania Twain’s concert at GEODIS Park in Nashville, Tennessee. Bryce Towle, a rising journalism senior, won 16th place in the Picture Story/Series subcategory for his photo story “A wonderful night for Denise” which tells the story of a local high school student’s experience on homecoming court.
Points are assigned for each individual student win in each category. To determine the overall intercollegiate winners, points from these individual wins are added together to determine a total score for each school represented. With points from both Cutrer and Towle’s wins, the University of Kentucky placed 10th overall in the intercollegiate photojournalism contest.
The two student winners had attended the annual Picture Kentucky Workshop last October where they were coached and mentored through an immersive, four-day photojournalism challenge. This workshop is where they captured some of the photos they used in their submissions.
For more information on the 2024 Hearst Awards, visit: https://mailchi.mp/49debeb41949/hearst-winners-named-9108700?e=77c646c342 .
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