Groton Students Win 35 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

Seventeen Groton School students have won a total of thirty-five regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, including eight gold keys, the highest honor.

Angela Wei '21 brought in eight awards herself—including seven in art and one in writing. In art, she won a gold key for “Waste Box,” in the mixed-media category; silver keys for the paintings “Frailty in Red" and "Red-Lined Truth,” and honorable mentions for her paintings “Weight,” “James Newton Howard,” and “Old Man Looking” and her drawing, “Mother.” In writing, Angela won a silver key for her personal essay, “A Permanent Place.”

 

Isabel Cai '21 received six total awards, including one gold key, one silver, and four honorable mentions. Her gold key was for a short story titled, “A Plateful of Chongyang Cakes,” and her silver was in for a mixed media work called “80 Football Fields Per Minute.” She won honorable mentions in the photography, essay, poetry, and short story categories.

 

Katie Reveno ’20 won two gold keys, for her personal essays “Holy” and “Milky Way.” Other gold keys went to Beatrice Agbi '21 for her short story, “To the End of the Line”; to Noemi Iwasaki '22 for her personal essay, “To Tear Myself in Half”; to Michelle Hajung Kim '23 for her short story, “Emancipation”; and to Mikayla Murrin '21 for her work of science fiction/fantasy, “The Frost.”

 

Gold keys go to the best works submitted to local competitions, according to the Scholastic organization, and automatically compete in the national competition, whose winners are announced in mid-March. Groton School's Scholastic Award–winning works will be on display in the Schoolhouse for several weeks after March vacation. The region's gold key winners will be on display at Tuft University's Breed Memorial Hall from March 14–22. 

Other writing awards went to Allison Jiang '22 (two silvers, for “Amicus” in science fiction/fantasy and “Writing ABCs” in poetry); Yujin Lim '22 (silver for her personal essay, “Memory No Sixteen”); Mikayla Murrin '21 (silver for her poem, “The Sylph”); Katie Reveno '20 (silver for her personal essay, “Poolside Living”); Stanislas Robert '22 (silver for his short story, “The Making of Emeralds”); Evan Cheigh '22 (honorable mention for his short story,“Innocens Ruina”), Cam Nguyen '22 (for her flash fiction work, “No”), and Annie Pei '22 (honorable mention for her short story, “She Loved Him More.”)

 

In art, additional awards went to Yuen Ning Chang '21 (two silvers, for her sculpture “Powdered Petals” and her film “Thangka Paintings: a Cultural Heritage”); Tyler Weisberg '22 (a silver in photography for “Running Vertigo”); Colin Kim '23 (two honorable mentions, for “Grasp” in the digital art category and for “Monument” in architecture and industrial design); and Zoe Park '21 (an honorable mention in the printmaking category for “Halo”).

Congratulations to Groton's Scholastic Award winners and to the teachers who help inspire their creativity.