Friday, May 28th, 2010

Paul Schneible of East Syracuse-Minoa Central High School won first place for his entry in the 2010 Matilda Joslyn Gage Essay Contest. His essay appeared in The Post-Standard, and he also received as prizes a $50 bookstore gift card and $30 gift certificate for use at the Gage Foundation gift shop.

Click here to read the winning essay.

Second place went to Helena Chiles of Fayetteville-Manlius High School, and third to Charlotte Visser of ESM.

This year’s contest was open to all students of ESM, FM, Jamesville-Dewitt, and Liverpool High Schools. The assigned topic was “If Matilda lived today, in what issues would she become involved?  Select one issue and write an essay of up to 1000 words describing what you think she would be working on today, why you think so, and what she might be doing about the issue.”