Awards: Earth Hour Student Essay Winners
Today [Apr.13] the Minister of Education Dame Jennifer Smith congratulated the winning students who participated in the 2011 Earth Hour Essay competition.
This year BELCO, Greenrock and Bermuda National Library, Youth Services, joined together to develop a new project for 2011 Earth Hour. The 2011 Earth Hour Student Essay Competition, for students ages 9-18, was introduced to help raise awareness amongst young people and to encourage research and writing.
Minister Smith said, “I am thrilled to recognise the accomplishments of students from our public and private schools. I must extend special congratulations to the four CedarBridge students Charnae Richardson, Kamel Easton, Jair Duke and Sherrita Bailey who snatched winning spots in the 2011 Earth Hour Essay contest.”
Dame Jennifer continued, “The 2011 Earth Hour Essay competition demonstrated that social and environmental issues see no boundaries when it comes to our children, as they are all affected by what takes place in our surrounding community – regardless of whether they are in the private or public school system.”
Minister Smith also commended the organizers of the essay contest for challenging “our youngsters” to not only critically think about what is taking place globally with our environment, but challenging them to articulate it in an essay format.
“The results were thought provoking and insightful literary pieces, and for me this is further proof of the levels of excellence throughout our education system,” she said. “To our winning students – I am delighted to celebrate your achievement, and I urge you to continue to strive for excellence in whatever you choose to do. You are the future of this Country, and when you engage in initiatives such as this you do yourselves tremendous benefit by evolving and expanding your learning process.”
Belco spokeswoman Susan McGrath-Smith said, “We are pleased to have received 119 essays and thank the judges who poured through them to select the winners. The judges were: Thania Redman and Wendell Richards of BELCO; Jeane Nikolai and Nicola O’Leary from the Ministry of Environment Planning & Infrastructure Strategy, who are also Earth Hour Council members; and Marla Smith from the Bermuda National Library, Youth Services”.
“We congratulate the Essay Contest winners, whose names were announced during the 2011 Earth Hour celebration at Hamilton City Hall on Saturday, 26 March”.
The winners are listed below:
AGE: 15 -18
- 1st Place – Renee Greenslade — Renee attends St. Margaret’s School in Virginia; she has elected to donate the $250 school award to the Dame Marjorie Bean Hope
- 2nd Place Rory Ben Wilson – Warwick Academy
- 3rd Place Tie: Charnae Richardson and Kamel Easton both of CedarBridge Academy
AGE: 12 -14
- 1st Place Elizabeth Emma Kook of Warwick Academy
- 2nd Place Tie: Jair Duke and Sherrita Bailey both of CedarBridge Academy
- 3rd Place Brandon Sousa – Mount Saint Agnes Academy
AGE: 9 – 11
- 1st Place Nicolas Siese of Somerset Primary
- 2nd Place Malini Romeo – Warwick Academy
- 3rd Place Tie: Ezra Joel-West End Primary and Zakira White –Purvis Primary
Honourable Mention:
- Peyton Caldoza – Bermuda High School for Girls
- Melanie Soares-Chan – Warwick Academy
- Sean Tucker – Warwick Academy
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