Congratulations
to All
Participants!

Congratulations to all winners and participants in this year's "Biggest Challenge" Gallaudet National Essay Contest, sponsored by World Around You, in Gallaudet's Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center, and the School of Education and Human Services.

Sixty students sent us their "biggest challenge" essays. They represented 18 different states, including Connecticut, California, Michigan, and Tennessee. One entrant was from Australia. Thirty-six entries were from nine schools for deaf and hard of hearing students, and 24 entries were from 14 public schools with programs for deaf and hard of hearing students.

Thanks to Contest Judges

Judges Jack Gannon, Mary Ellen Carew, and Jane Nickerson with the contest entries. "We wish we could make them all first place," they said.

Special thanks to our contest judges! The judges were:

• Mary Ellen Carew, editor of the American Annals of the Deaf;
• Jack Gannon, author of Deaf Heritage and The Week the World Heard Gallaudet and former assistant to the president of Gallaudet University; and
• Jane Nickerson, professor of English at Gallaudet University, who is also an editor of World Around You-Teacher's Guide.

Prizes

All winners and their teachers receive a free subscription to World Around You for the 1999-2000 school year, and a free copy of Movers and Shakers: Deaf People Who Changed the World.

In addition, scholarship money is awarded for college or postsecondary study:

• Grand Prize: $1,000
• Second Prize: $500
• Third Prize: $300
• Honorable Mention: $100

Special Thanks

Special thanks to DawnSignPress in San Diego, California, for donating 11 copies of Movers & Shakers: Deaf People Who Changed the World to all winners and commendable achievers. The authors are also waiving royalties.

Winners Grand prize winner—Melanie Osgood Tennessee School for the Deaf Knoxville, Tennessee Second place winner—Stacy Nowak Gallaudet University Washington, D.C. Third place winner—Jennifer Pearsall Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf Wilson, North Carolina Honorable Mention—Bushra Khan W.T. Woodson High Fairfax, Virginia Honorable Mention—Nancy McAnlis Wissahickon High Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Commendable—John P. McGinty Clarke School for the Deaf Northhampton, Massachusetts Commendable—Siskoth Chun Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Commendable—Ariane Robertson North Carolina School for the Deaf Morgantown, North Carolina Commendable—Jim Crane Bexley Jr. High Bexley, Ohio Commendable—Chris Argentina Rhinebeck High Rhinebeck, New York Commendable—Erica Hossler Indiana School for the Deaf Indianapolis, Indiana