ESSAY

• 2011 First Place:
  Dan Nocek, 16 Years Old, Illinois
  A Perfect Peace of Pie

• 2011 Second  Place:
  Katie Bidne, 18 Years Old, Nebraska
  A Week in a Lifetime

• 2011 Third Place:
  Han Gao, 18 Years Old, Minnesota
  What about peace

• 2011 Honorable Mention:
  • Cameron Hubbuch, 14 Years Old, Tennessee
    What About Peace?
  • Katie Cuttle, 15 Years Old, Tennessee
    We Can Always Find Peace
  • Shaye Sisneros, 18 Years Old, Nebraska
    Peace of Our Own
  • Michael Americus, 17 Years Old, Illinois
    A Peaceful Hero

Judge: Mary Krogness from Cleveland, OH brings a lifework of teaching and writing to judging your essays.  Her creative writing series for PBS, "Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright," was an award winner and she authored an English  textbook for Houghton Mifflin.