The prompt for this year’s contest was:<\/p>\n
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”<\/p>\n
— President and World War II Supreme Allied Commander, Dwight Eisenhower<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
First Place<\/em> – <\/span>Shannan Takhar<\/a><\/span>, River Valley High School, Yuba City<\/span><\/p>\n
Second Place<\/em> – Katie Tanner<\/a>, Calaveras High School, San Andreas<\/p>\n
Third Place – <\/em>Ela Banerjee<\/a>, Roseville High School, Roseville<\/p>\n
The other finalists were:
\nKayla Carlisle<\/a>, Golden Sierra High School, Garden Valley
\nMegan Donnelly<\/a>, Union Mine High School, El Dorado
\nAye Khine<\/a>, St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School, Vallejo
\nAlejandro Saldivar<\/a>, Yuba City High School, Yuba City
\nSamuel Schooley<\/a>, Bella Vista High, Fair Oaks
\nNolan Wong<\/a>, C. K. McClatchy High School, Sacramento<\/p>\nRussell Islam<\/a>, Mira Loma High school, Sacramento was unable to present
\nhis essay because of his participation in the National Science Bowl.<\/p>\nThe ten student finalists presented their essays orally at the PSR\/Sacramento Scholarship Finals Dinner on May 1 at the Dante Club in Sacramento.<\/a> The first place winner received a $2,500 scholarship, second place a $1,500 scholarship, and third place a $1,000 scholarship.
\nThe other seven finalists received $750 scholarships.
\nView the “finals” courtesy of Media Edge.<\/a><\/p>\nThe 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners were chosen by a panel of distinguished judges: Dr. Bob Erlenbusch, Policy Director for the Sacramento Housing Alliance; Sister Libby Fernandez, RSM, executive director of Sacramento Loaves and Fishes; Dr. Sherry Magee, professor at the University of LaVerne; The Honorable Robert Twiss, Juvenile Felony Trial Division of the California State Superior Court; and Blake Young, president and CEO of the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Serivces.<\/p>\n
Thanks to everyone who helped make the 2011 PSR\/Sacramento Scholarship Essay Contest a success, and, especially, to all the students who entered the contest.<\/p>\n
Special thanks to Media Edge for filming the event and to Steve Walker for the sound system engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PSR\/Sacramento congratulates the ten finalists for the 2011 High School Scholarship Essay Contest. The prompt for this year’s contest was: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” — […]<\/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\/227"}],"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=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sacpsr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/sacpsr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions\/1023"}],"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=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}