Feehan Students Earn Prestigious Scholastic Writing Awards????
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PHOTO: Front row from left, Megan McFarland (Attleboro), Cassandra Schifman (Mansfield), Sarah Wiik (Wrentham), and Heather Hannon (Franklin). Back row: Feehan President Tim Sullivan, Eric Blair (N.Attleboro), English teacher Meredith Bickford, Sam Carter (Cumberland, RI), and Principal Sean Kane.
Bishop Feehan High School announced that six student writers were recognized in the Boston Globe 2017 Scholastic Art & Writing competition sponsored by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers.
A total of 10 Feehan students submitted 23 pieces of writing.
Eleven of those pieces, submitted by six different students, received recognition, making the number of awards the most the school???s students have received in 5 years.????
This writing contest is celebrated as the most prestigious recognition and scholarship program for teens in the United States.
The prestigious Gold Key was awarded to Cassie Schifman for her poem entitled: ???Lateral Fragmentation??? which will go on to be judged at the national level in March.
Four students won Silver Key awards: Megan McFarland for her poem ???Proof the Human Body is Made of Glass???; Cassie Schifman for her poem ???Effervescence???; Sarah Wiik for her poem ???All Hail the Queen???; and Heather Hannon who received three Silver Key awards for her personal essay/memoir ???Soar???, her science fiction piece ???Pippa???, and her short story ???Sick???.
Honorable mention recognition went to: Eric Blair for his poem ???Watercolor???, Sam Carter for his poem ???The Fire???, Cassandra Schifman for her personal essay/memoir ???Laurels for the Girl I’m Trying Not To Be???, and Sarah Wiik for her dramatic script ???Alice in New York???.
Gold and Silver Key winners are eligible to participate in the Massachusetts Awards Celebration on March 11, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
