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Following a short break, the return of the Young Authors contest has concluded and 28 Powell students across a wide age range walked away with awards including five state winners and eight honorable …
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Following a short break, the return of the Young Authors contest has concluded and 28 Powell students across a wide age range walked away with awards including five state winners and eight honorable mentions on the state level. Young Authors is a statewide competition for students K-12 sponsored by the Wyoming State Literary Association.
“I believe the importance of the young authors competition for students is to really get them to share their voice. They have important ideas and an important voice and I believe the world needs to hear more of our students’ voices,” said Brittany Mollett, a Westside Elementary School teacher and local committee member for the contest. “That’s why I like to do it. I like to see what they’re thinking, what the world is turning into with our kids and then helping them pursue those dreams and really getting out there.”
Mollett and other district teachers and staff joined students and their families at Powell Middle School on May 8 to celebrate the students’ success.
— Braden Schiller
State winners:
Micah Baxter Fiction
James Heny Nonfiction
Jim Black Poetry
Emma Johnson Poetry
Ethan Cearlock Fiction
District Winners:
Kindergarten
Alexis Stephan — Fiction
Jenna Heny — Nonfiction and Honorable Mention
First Grade
Makoto Kawano — Fiction
Micah Baxter — Nonfiction (holdover from 2020)
Second Grade
Emerson Burns — Fiction
Wesley Brower — Nonfiction
Kyle Stewart — Poetry
Skylie Ramirez — Graphic Novel
Third grade
Timber Metzler — Fiction and Honorable Mention
Kymber Asay — Nonfiction
Case Davis — Poetry
Weatherby Allan — Graphic Novel and Honorable Mention
Fourth Grade
Alexandra Austin — Poetry
Amaya Odom —Graphic Novel
Fifth Grade
Beth Black — Fiction and Honorable Mention
Karen Richmond — Poetry
Sixth Grade
Bailey Urwiller — Fiction
Russell Goolsbey — Nonfiction
Maysn Schuler — Poetry and Honorable Mention
Eighth Grade
Tristan Robinson — Fiction and Honorable Mention
Taylor Peters — Nonfiction and Honorable Mention
Ninth Grade
Katarina Reitz — Fiction
12th Grade
Nathan Feller — Nonfiction and Honorable Mention
