{"id":1063,"date":"2022-01-05T19:37:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T03:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sacpsr.azurewebsites.net\/?page_id=1063"},"modified":"2022-01-05T19:37:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T03:37:23","slug":"2021-contest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sacpsr.org\/index.php\/essay-contest\/past-contests\/2021-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 High School Scholarship Essay Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PSR\/Sacramento congratulates the winner of our 2021 High School Scholarship Essay Contest, which was open to all high school seniors in Sacramento and surrounding counties. The prompt for our 2021 contest was the following excerpt from the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech given on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) by Executive Director Beatrice Fihn on December 10, 2017:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4><em><strong>\u201cThe story of nuclear weapons will have an ending, <\/strong><\/em><em><strong>and it is up to us what the<br>ending will be. Will it be the end of nuclear weapons, or will it be the end of us?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-962\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BFihn-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-962\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BFihn-197x300.jpg 197w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BFihn.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><figcaption>Beatrice Fihn delivering 2017 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on behalf of ICAN<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3>The Winners of our 2021 High School Scholarship Essay Contest Are:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4>First Place Winner ($3,000 Scholarship)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Donato-Kaila.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Kaila Donato<\/a><br>Stockton Early College Academy<br>Stockton, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Second Place Winner ($2,500 Scholarship)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Hewitt-Chet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Chet Hewitt<\/a><br>Christian Brothers High School<br>Sacramento, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Third Place Winner* ($2,000 Scholarship)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Adams-Matthew.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Adams<\/a><br>El Dorado High School<br>Placerville, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Third Place Winner* ($2,000 Scholarship)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Pimenta-Jenna.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Jenna Pimenta<\/a><br>Saint Francis High School<br>Sacramento, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>$1,000 Scholarship Winner<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Hofmann-Emma.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Hofmann<\/a><br>Folsom High School<br>Folsom, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>$1,000 Scholarship Winner<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kitsuda-Deric.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Deric Kitsuda<\/a><br>Natomas Charter School<br>Sacramento, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>$1,000 Scholarship Winner<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Nagin-Trisha.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Trisha Nagin<\/a><br>Inderkum High School<br>Sacramento, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>$1,000 Scholarship Winner<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Thaploo-Advait.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Advait Thaploo<\/a><br>Mira Loma High School<br>Sacramento, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>$1,000 Scholarship Winner<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vasquez-Sierra.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Sierra Vasquez<\/a><br>Amador High School<br>Sutter Creek, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>$1,000 Scholarship Winner<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Anonymous-1000-winner.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(Student\u2019s name and high school withheld at student\u2019s request)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>$250 Scholarship Winner<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Aaliyah McElroy<br>Folsom High School<br>Folsom, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>$250 Scholarship Winner<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicole Purda<br>Laguna Creek High School<br>Elk Grove, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6>* Two students tied for third place<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSR\/Sacramento congratulates the winner of our 2021 High School Scholarship Essay Contest, which was open to all high school seniors in Sacramento and surrounding counties. The prompt for our 2021 contest was the following excerpt from the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech given on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":203,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacpsr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacpsr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacpsr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacpsr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacpsr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sacpsr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/sacpsr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1063\/revisions\/1065"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacpsr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacpsr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}