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Middle School Student Pens Nationally Award Winning Poems

"I was really excited and kind of in shock," admitted eighth grader Ayla Jeddy '19 when she learned she had won the prestigious Bloomberg "Best-In-Grade" national award for her writing. She won for a series of poems describing the experience of a Mesopotamian artifact through all of its stages of history. She also won a regional award and a national gold medal for the poems. Scholastic chose to publish an excerpt from the poems entitled, "The Goldsmith" in "The Best Teen Writing of 2014."  Also, written last year in Ms. Carolyn Karp' writing class, Ayla entered her short story "The Speed of Light" - about Einstein's childhood, which won a gold medal at the regional level and a gold medal at the national level too.
Sen. Chuck Schumer sent Ayla a letter thanking her for successfully representing New York at the national level. Ayla joined the other "Best-in-Grade" award winners at a ceremony on the stage at Carnegie Hall this past summer. Ms. Karp was proudly in attendance. About 255,000 works of art and writing were submitted to the annual Scholastic Art and Writing Awards by students in grades 7-12 last spring from around the country.
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