Lampeter-Strasburg School District has announced that several of its students have received national recognition in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. To be considered for national recognition, the students' works had to receive a Gold Key at the local/regional level of the competition.
Lampeter-Strasburg High School junior Makenzie Lefever won a Gold Medal and an American Visions Medal at the national level for "Jellyfish Bubble Blower," a delicate, wearable bubble blower shaped like a jellyfish. Senior Lindsay Szymanski won a Silver Medal for "Dragon With Egg," a brass egg-shaped pendant that has a small, hinged door and a dragon sculpted around it.
Martin Meylin Middle School student Bethany Barrall won a Gold Medal in the Novel Writing category for her excerpt from "The Truthbringer." This is Bethany's second Scholastic National Gold Medal. She also received one last year for an excerpt from her novel "Sunrise."
Lefever and her parents have been invited to attend the National Ceremony in New York City, set to take place at Carnegie Hall in June. The ceremony will honor this year's Gold Medal winners.
Receiving a National Medal places these students' works within the top 1 percent of all submissions. Medal winners join a legacy of celebrated authors and artists, including Andy Warhol, Robert Redford, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, and Joyce Carol Oates.
Works that were honored at the local/regional level were on display through April 14 at the Demuth Museum as part of the Scholastic Art Awards Exhibition.
Since 1923, the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards have recognized creative teenagers from across the country. This year, nearly 350,000 works of art and writing were submitted by students in grades seven through 12.
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