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Dalton Students Recognized by Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
The annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards recognized 43 Dalton students for their excellence in film & animation, drawing & illustration, photography, poetry, short story writing, and other art and literary categories.
The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards is a series of regional and national competitions where students from across the United States compete in 29 art and writing categories. Visual and literary art leaders each year judge over 300,000 submissions by originality, technical skill, and personal voice or vision criteria.
Dalton students grades 7-12 won 83 total accolades, including 19 coveted Gold Key Awards, which are automatically considered for national-level recognition. Thirty-four individual Dalton students accounted for 58 Writing awards, while nine students collected 25 Art awards.
Congratulations to all of our Scholastic winners for their dedication to creativity and the arts!.
Writing Awards
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Dalton students grades 7-12 won 83 total accolades, including 19 coveted Gold Key Awards, which are automatically considered for national-level recognition. Thirty-four individual Dalton students accounted for 58 Writing awards, while nine students collected 25 Art awards.
Congratulations to all of our Scholastic winners for their dedication to creativity and the arts!.
Writing Awards
| Name | Individual Awards | Work Category | Work Title |
| Ciara Balanza | Gold Key | Poetry | A rock as light as a feather |
| Zoe Ehrenkranz | Gold Key | Critical Essay | Uncompromising Agency in a Compromised Relationship |
| Miles Gumbs | Gold Key | Critical Essay | The United States Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee: The Exploitation of Black Bodies in the Medical Institution |
| Sam Kaplan | Gold Key | Personal Essay & Memoir | Life of a House |
| Haeon Lee | Gold Key | Critical Essay | Infinity is Identity in “When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities” |
| Anya Levin | Gold Key | Poetry | Eight AM |
| Anya Levin | Gold Key | Poetry | Unorthodox |
| Arav Mehta | Gold Key | Poetry | Papers |
| Arav Mehta | Gold Key | Personal Essay & Memoir | America's Unfair Board Game |
| Max Mottola | Gold Key | Short Story | Environment's Wrath |
| Lylah Patel | Gold Key | Personal Essay & Memoir | When in Venice |
| William George Porteous | Gold Key | Poetry | Elegies |
| Luke Rostan | Gold Key | Critical Essay | The Man Who Dared to Strive |
| Daniel Slater | Gold Key | Humor | What Ho, Apothecary! |
| Charlotte Sleeper | Gold Key | Poetry | To Use Shakespearean Form |
| Ciara Balanza | Silver Key | Personal Essay & Memoir | Scaredy Cat |
| Ciara Balanza | Silver Key | Critical Essay | Persephone Caught in the Middle |
| Olivia Cooney | Silver Key | Short Story | A Fabulous Summer Vacation |
| Cole Corper | Silver Key | Personal Essay & Memoir | The Blues |
| Mira Gulati | Silver Key | Personal Essay & Memoir | The Trials and Tribulations of Pumpkins and Grief |
| Sarah Jeddy | Silver Key | Flash Fiction | The Apocalypse |
| Tali Kantor Lieber | Silver Key | Personal Essay & Memoir | Adventures in Genesis Land |
| Tali Kantor Lieber | Silver Key | Personal Essay & Memoir | Musings From the F Train |
| Aida Kasparova | Silver Key | Critical Essay | Bigotry and Prejudice: The Telling Reveal of the 1925 Scopes Trial |
| Eileen Li | Silver Key | Personal Essay & Memoir | Symphony for Two |
| Maxwell Massiah | Silver Key | Short Story | Entries from a Civil Fighter |
| Kaitlyn Pohly | Silver Key | Poetry | A Letter Home from Leadville, Colorado |
| Ela Roso | Silver Key | Personal Essay & Memoir | The Way Flowers Bloom |
| Luke Rostan | Silver Key | Critical Essay | A Crusade for "Civilization": The Colonial Response to Islam in British Sierra Leone |
| Ava Rubinstein | Silver Key | Critical Essay | A Rift In The Suffrage Movement |
| Daniel Slater | Silver Key | Humor | Isaac, Bound |
| Simon Smith | Silver Key | Short Story | Rotten Meat |
| Leo Yu | Silver Key | Critical Essay | Defiance Through Compliance |
| Mirabelle Zhang | Silver Key | Poetry | Confessions to Make Ghosts Out Of |
| Ciara Balanza | Honorable Mention | Dramatic Script | The Derby |
| Ciara Balanza | Honorable Mention | Critical Essay | A Cheerleader’s Free Speech on Social Media |
| Solomon Feder | Honorable Mention | Critical Essay | Narrative Style of The Handmaid's Tale |
| Mika Higgins-Woo | Honorable Mention | Short Story | A Circle of Hands |
| Katherine Hwang | Honorable Mention | Critical Essay | Confronting Fate: Oedipus Rex and Mamet’s Perfect Tragedy |
| Katherine Hwang | Honorable Mention | Poetry | Resonance |
| Tali Kantor Lieber | Honorable Mention | Critical Essay | The Ethiopian Cross’s Communicative Nature |
| Haeon Lee | Honorable Mention | Critical Essay | Trevor Noah’s Uniqueness in the Late Night Genre |
| Haeon Lee | Honorable Mention | Critical Essay | Reflection in the Other: O’Brien’s Trajectory of Grief |
| Ella Mettke | Honorable Mention | Flash Fiction | The Local News |
| Kaitlyn Pohly | Honorable Mention | Critical Essay | The Complexity of Jewish Identity Through a Personal Lens |
| William George Porteous | Honorable Mention | Critical Essay | Lethargy and Labor in Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" |
| Charlotte Sleeper | Honorable Mention | Critical Essay | Exploring the Word “Dream” in Fahrenheit 451 |
| Charlotte Sleeper | Honorable Mention | Poetry | Grief in the Age of COVID |
| Simon Smith | Honorable Mention | Humor | The American Dream |
| Simon Smith | Honorable Mention | Short Story | Oil on a High Branch |
| Leo Yu | Honorable Mention | Critical Essay | Visions of Fatherhood |
| Leo Yu | Honorable Mention | Critical Essay | Nature, Wildness, and Female Agency in Morrison’s A Mercy |
| Quentin Balboni | Honorable Mention | Personal Essay & Memoir | Crow's Feet |
| Solomon Feder | Honorable Mention | Critical Essay | The Creators of the Constitution and Their Responses to the Articles Of Confederation |
| Haeon Lee | Honorable Mention | Critical Essay | Raise a Glass to Cultural Economics: What Guilds Meant to the Medieval World |
| Anya Levin | Honorable Mention | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Prism |
| Julia Miyasaka | Honorable Mention | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Swan Song |
| Jasmine Wynn | Honorable Mention | Critical Essay | Colonization and Culture: The Tale of 19th Century Freetown, Sierra Leone. |
Art Awards
| Name | Individual Awards | Work Category | Work Title |
| Dagmar Rothschild | Gold Key, American Visions Nominee | Photography | A prayer for the left behind |
| Eli Diker | Gold Key | Photography | Island |
| Anoushka Phillips | Gold Key | Ceramics & Glass | Flower Vase |
| Dagmar Rothschild | Gold Key | Photography | Metamorphosis |
| Wenhao Cai | Silver Key | Ceramics & Glass | When Can We Breathe? |
| Wenhao Cai | Silver Key | Painting | Split Second |
| Eli Diker | Silver Key | Photography | My Corner |
| Anoushka Phillips | Silver Key | Jewelry | Set of Rings |
| Arya Prasad | Silver Key | Painting | My Dadi, 1973 |
| Dagmar Rothschild | Silver Key | Film & Animation | Girl with an iPhone camera |
| Dagmar Rothschild | Silver Key | Photography | A prayer for the left behind #2 |
| Dagmar Rothschild | Silver Key | Photography | 9/11 memorial |
| Dagmar Rothschild | Silver Key | Photography | congenial limbs |
| Alex Wing | Silver Key | Drawing & Illustration | Best Friend (A Portrait) |
| Natalie Wynn | Silver Key | Digital Art | Heart Over Matter |
| Talia Bakst | Honorable Mention | Painting | State Of Mind |
| Lisa Sophia Cruz | Honorable Mention | Photography | Capturing the light |
| Eli Diker | Honorable Mention | Photography | Snow Day |
| Eli Diker | Honorable Mention | Photography | The Rat |
| Eli Diker | Honorable Mention | Photography | Holding Hands |
| Eli Diker | Honorable Mention | Photography | Self Portrait in Store Window |
| Dagmar Rothschild | Honorable Mention | Photography | Lasting Leaking Light |
| Dagmar Rothschild | Honorable Mention | Photography | 9/11 memorial #3 |
| Alex Wing | Honorable Mention | Drawing & Illustration | Distortion |
| Natalie Wynn | Honorable Mention | Drawing & Illustration | Self Portrait in Stained Mirror |
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