Tenth Competition (2014-2015)
Winners High School Division Best Essay Award
1st Place: Arianna Vetrano (Eleanor Roosevelt High School)
2nd Place: Monica Bederman (The Brearley School)
3rd Place: Dillon Wu (Stuyvesant High School)
College Division Best Essay Award
Nicola Shannon (Stony Brook University)
Rina Inaba (Stony Brook University)
Uchida Memorial Award
Irene Chen (Townsend Harris High School)
Consul General of Japan Special Award
Irene Chen (Townsend Harris High School)
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Merit Award
Charles Beers (Huntington High School)
Brian Brew (Herricks High School)
Seung Hye Yang (Queens HS for the Sciences at York College)
Semi-Finalists Renny Cho (Staten Island Technical High School)
Kathy Chu (WT Clarke High School)
Julia Engle (Huntington High School)
Mehnaz Hassan (Suny-Old Westbury)
Tiara Hess (Stony Brook University)
Crystal Huang (WT Clarke High School)
Joice Im (Townsend Harris High School)
Tabashshum Islam (Stony Brook University)
Erin Kim (Hunter College High School)
Adrian Kloskowski (Stuyvesant High School)
Coral Kopetz (Stony Brook University)
Veronika Koziel (Syosset High School)
Veronica Lee (Queens High School for the Sciences)
Zachary Marcone (Kings Park High School)
Julia Menges (Northport High School)
Howie Miller (Garden City High School)
Pauline Okuda Ceraulo (New York University)
Gabrielle Rich (The Brearley School)
Ana Segarceanu (Oceanside High School)
Alisa Su (Stuyvesant High School)
Michellica Seecharran (Bard High School Early College Queens)
Nanase Shirokawa (Hunter College High School)
Stina Trollback (Fiorello H LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts)
Carolyn Wilson (New Hyde Park Memorial High School)
Sally Xie (Townsend Harris High School)
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