Huntington Students Win Honors in Town Writing Contest
Four Huntington School District students will be honored at this year’s Huntington Youth Writes awards ceremony. The 11th annual writing competition was sponsored by Project Excel of the Huntington Youth Bureau-Youth Development Research Institute, Inc.
Jack Abrams Intermediate School students Jacob Fuller (“Bob the Frog”) and Christian Verfenstein (“Pickle Juice II, The Revenge of the Pickle”) captured second place and honorable mention recognition, respectively, in the grades 4-5 short story category.
Huntington High School students Laura Zenzerovich (“The Poverty of Haiti”) and Anthony Kouttron (“My College Essay”) finished second and third, respectively, in the grades 9-12 essay category.
“This year there were over 1,100 entrants in the contest,” wrote Valerie E. Drakos, Project Excel’s director, in a letter to local principals. “These entrants span across all public and private schools in the Town of Huntington from grades 4-12. As always, the talent of the entrants made our judges’ job difficult in picking the winners.
The awards ceremony will be held Thursday, June 3 at 7 p.m. in the J. Taylor Finley Middle School large group instruction room.
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