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2003 Grand Prize Winners and Finalists
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| Wishing
Dust
Tyler Mitchell, Age 8 |
Grand
Prize Winner Category I Grades K-2 |
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Madeline Wong, Age 11 |
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Celia La Luz, Age 15 |
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Prize Winner Category III Grades 7-9 |
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Day
Leeron Silva, Age 17 |
Grand
Prize Winner Category IV Grades 10-12 |
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Fence Nora Bradford, Age 13 Center for Teaching and Learning Edgecomb, Maine Teacher: Nancie Atwell |
Monkey’s
Raincoat Prize Honoring a Short Poem in the Traditon of the Japanese Haiku |
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Flame Forrest Ambruster, Age 11 Lakeshore Elementary School San Francisco, California Teacher:Grace Grafton (1998 ROW Teacher of the Year) |
Shasta
Bioregion Prize Awarded to a San Francisco Bay Area student |
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Untitled, Amelia Archer Away, Jenna Archer Sunday Afternoon, Rachel Blumenthal Hurricane, Chelsea Bagwell Creeping Water, Margit Bowler A World in My Hands, Amelia Bernstein This is How Nature Works, Johanna Chotiwat Nature, Peter Davies Bayou Bedtime, Monica Davis Home, Danielle Durousseau You Majesty, the Oak, Sean Fleming Hay Un Rio Oscuro, Michelle Diaz Garza and Rosa Baum To My Father, Kara Guarisco Ode To Rain, Samantha Hill The River, Rokendy Johnson Branding in the Spring, Annie Johnson Heaven’s Truth, Scott Laffler Water, Helena Leech Oda a la Fresca, Cinthia Martinez Blind Morning, Kevin Maher Always, Claire McNear Blueberries, Rachel Miller Crossing El Desierto, Diana Ortiz What Is Nature to Me?, Molly Moss Prayer, Alexandra Petri The Levee, Camila Perez Untitled, Shallin Ris River II, Zena Sallam Baptized, Nili Segal Untitled, Troy Smith The Duck’s Date, Jeff Shane Nature, Wayland Singh Bobcat, Elsinore Smidth Prancing, Harrison Smith Fishing the Soul, Matthew Sparks A Deep Place, Eric Stagner Pearls From Above, Karolinka Tekiela Ode to a River Evening, Jamie Trong Freedom Found, Flannery M. Weil The Sun, Kristin Wilcox Time Changes Everything, Dillon York |
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