2011 Contest Winners
Photography Contest
ESW 2011 Contest Photography Winner (Susan Tate)
Susan Tate of Montague, Michigan, won first place in the photo contest with her image of a wind storm at the White Lake Channel looking over Lake Michigan.
Submissions illustrated the theme “A World of Change in My Community.”
Finalists
ESW 2011 Contest Photography Finalist (Claire Kobold-Vettraino)
ESW 2011 Contest Photography Finalist (Gurneet Kaur)
ESW 2011 Contest Photography Finalist (Jonathan Canfield)
ESW 2011 Contest Photography Finalist (Patricia delli Venneri)
Visual Art Contest
ESW 2011 Contest Visual Art Winner (Kristine Zheng)
Kristine Zheng from Ann Arbor, Michigan, won first place in the visual arts contest with a colorful drawing demonstrating different Earth chages that can affect Earth’s air, water, land, and living things.
Students in grades K-5 made two-dimensional artworks illustrating the theme “Picturing Our Ever-Changing Earth.”
Finalists
ESW 2011 Contest Visual Art Finalist (Bhavya Sethi)
ESW 2011 Contest Visual Art Finalist (Hillary Barrientos)
ESW 2011 Contest Visual Art Finalist (Jahow Yu)
ESW 2011 Contest Visual Art Finalist (Zaina Tarafder)
Essay Contest
Amanda Hackett of Virginia Beach, Virginia, won first place in the essay contest with her writing about how the different interactions among the Earth systems change our planet, how human lives are affected by these changes, and ways people gather evidence to monitor these effects.
Students in grades 6-9 wrote essays of up to 300 words addressing this year’s theme, “How Change Shapes Our Planet.”
The views and assertions presented in essays are neither endorsed by nor reflect the positions the American Geosciences Institute.