Carnegie Council Announces Winners of Its International Student/Teacher Competition, 'Making a Difference'
NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is delighted to announce the winners of its 2010 International Student/Teacher Essay Competition, "Making a Difference."
The essay question was:
How would you improve your school so that it prepares future leaders to protect the planet?
And the winners are…
HIGH SCHOOL
First Prize, Jacqueline Dufalla, the Ellis School, PA, USA
POST SECONDARY SCHOOL
First Prize: Phaedra Jaggernauth, University of Trinidad and Tobago
Second Prize: Lisa Blake, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
TEACHERS
First Prize: Anthony Itodo Samuel, Marymount College, Agbor, Nigeria
Second Prize: Teacher and student team - Jacob Park, associate professor of business strategy and sustainability, and Ashley Staron, class of 2011, Green Mountain College, Vermont, USA
To read these essays, go to www.carnegiecouncil.org/about/announcements/0055.html.
The winners receive Amazon gift certificates and a copy of "Ethics & International Affairs: A Reader."
We would like to thank everyone who submitted an essay. Our Carnegie Council judges found them all very inspiring! The majority of entries came from the United States, but in total we received 56 entries from 17 countries (plus some foreign nationals living in the U.S.). The youngest contestant was 14 years old.
This contest was part of the Council's second annual SEPTEMBER SUSTAINABILITY MONTH, which kicked off a year of events and resources on sustainability. Generous funding of the Carnegie Council's 2010-2011 sustainability programming has been provided by Hewlett-Packard and by Booz & Company.
The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (www.carnegiecouncil.org), established in 1914 by Andrew Carnegie, is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing understanding of the relationship between ethics and international affairs.
SOURCE Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
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