{"id":3517,"date":"2016-03-14T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2016-03-15T08:42:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T15:42:12","slug":"students-from-placentia-yorba-linda-win-top-honors-at-holocaust-art-and-writing-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=3517","title":{"rendered":"Students from Placentia, Yorba Linda win top honors at Holocaust Art and Writing Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six students from the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) were named finalists in Chapman University&#8217;s 17th annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest, with two taking home first place and two placing second.<\/p>\n<p>The awards ceremony took place on Friday, March 4, at Chapman University. This year&#8217;s contest theme was &#8220;Telling it Forward: Making Memory Matter.&#8221; Presented by Chapman&#8217;s Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, the competition is the largest of its kind in the nation, with submissions from California and 19 other states, as well as Canada, Nigeria, Poland and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The six PYLUSD student finalists were:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">First place<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Daanesh Jamal<\/strong><br \/>\nGrade 8<br \/>\nKraemer Middle School, Placentia<br \/>\nCategory: Writing<br \/>\nTitle: &#8220;Ordinary People&#8221;<br \/>\nTeacher: Cathy Smith<br \/>\nSurvivor Testimony: Sam Goetz<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sophia Scarsi<\/strong><br \/>\nGrade 8<br \/>\nTuffree Middle School, Placentia<br \/>\nCategory: Art<br \/>\nTitle: &#8220;The Unknowing Goodbye&#8221;<br \/>\nTeacher: Kim Schultz<br \/>\nSurvivor Testimony: Ren\u00e9e Firestone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Second place<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Noelle Humphrey<\/strong><br \/>\nGrade 8<br \/>\nYorba Linda Middle School, Yorba Linda<br \/>\nCategory: Art<br \/>\nTitle: &#8220;6 Million Reasons&#8221;<br \/>\nTeacher: Cameron Castaneda<br \/>\nSurvivor Testimony: Rosette Fischer<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emily Ito<\/strong><br \/>\nGrade 8<br \/>\nBernardo Yorba Middle School, Yorba Linda<br \/>\nCategory: Film<br \/>\nTitle: &#8220;Acts of Kindness&#8221;<br \/>\nTeacher: Keith Kish<br \/>\nSurvivor Testimony: Elly Kamm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Finalists<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Caitlyn Guntle<\/strong><br \/>\nGrade 8<br \/>\nTravis Ranch School, Yorba Linda<br \/>\nCategory: Film<br \/>\nTitle: &#8220;Dancing in the Rain&#8221;<br \/>\nTeacher: Cynthia Riley<br \/>\nSurvivor Testimony: Vladka Meed<\/li>\n<li><strong>Somer Magnin<\/strong><br \/>\nGrade 11<br \/>\nEsperanza High School, Anaheim<br \/>\nCategory: Art<br \/>\nTitle: &#8220;Silence is Not an Option&#8221;<br \/>\nTeacher: Marsha Linsley<br \/>\nSurvivor Testimony: Paula Lebovics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over 5,700 students from public, private and parochial schools initially responded to submit artwork, essays, films and poems inspired by the stories of Holocaust survivors. Three works per participating school were then selected to be officially entered in the contest. Those works were judged by a panel of Holocaust survivors, local businesspeople, organization leaders, and Chapman faculty and students.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, PYLUSD was the only school district in the world to have all of its secondary schools take part in this competition &#8212; 13 schools total. This level of participation earned PYLUSD a special keepsake pewter dish from Chapman.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapman.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.chapman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3520\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/chapman-pewter-dish.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3520\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3520\" class=\"wp-image-3520 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/chapman-pewter-dish-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"chapman-pewter-dish\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/chapman-pewter-dish-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/chapman-pewter-dish.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Award presented by Chapman University for being the only district in the nation to have 100 percent participation from all secondary schools.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six students from the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) were named finalists in Chapman University&#8217;s 17th annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest, with two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1177,1178,15],"tags":[599,146,120,401,108,40],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","category-middle-school","category-school-district","tag-bernardo-yorba-middle-school","tag-esperanza-high-school","tag-kraemer-middle-school","tag-travis-ranch-school","tag-tuffree-middle-school","tag-yorba-linda-middle-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}