Ayn Rand Institute Awards $10,000 Prize
September 15, 2010
IRVINE,
CA--Bayside
High School junior Cheska Mauban from Queens Village, New York, is $10,000
richer this month! Cheska is the grand prize winner of the Ayn Rand Institute’s
annual essay contest based on Ayn Rand’s novel “The Fountainhead,” for which
Ms. Mauban received the cash award.
Open to 11th- and 12th-grade high
school students, the “Fountainhead” essay contest requires contestants to write
on one of several topics dealing with the characters and themes in the novel.
The contest is designed to promote critical thinking and writing skills. Essays
are judged on both style and content.
More than 6,000 students from around
the world entered this year’s contest.
The following students have won this
year’s second and third prizes:
Second-prize winners ($2,000):
Chelsea Speegle, Juneau Douglas High
School, Juneau, AK, USA
Jared Hinkle, MMI Preparatory
School, Weatherly, PA, USA
Diane Shahan, Bluefield High School,
Bramwell, WV, USA
Alysha Labrum, Century High School,
Pocatello, ID, USA
Hanne Paine, West High School, Salt
Lake City, UT, USA
Third-prize winners ($1,000):
Micah Fitzgerald, New Haven High
School, New Haven, IN, USA
Cody Franklin, Bartlesville Sr High
School, Bartlesville, OK, USA
Richad Becker, Kinnelon High School,
Kinnelon, NJ, USA
Raluca Ifrim, Redmond High School,
Sammamish, WA, USA
Sarah Waddill, Clover High School,
Rock Hill, SC, USA
Ruth Wong, Earl Haig Secondary
School, North York, ON, CAN
Ashley Feng, Pingry School,
Watchung, NJ, USA
Sara Stewart, Handley High School,
Roanoke, AL, USA
Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong, FFCA
High School, Calgary, AB, CAN
Kelly Buckley, Key School,
Annapolis, MD, USA
The contest also awards 45 finalists
($100) and 175 semifinalists ($50). A complete list of winners and a copy of
the first-prize essay can be read online at the Ayn
Rand Institute’s website.
First published in 1943, “The
Fountainhead” tells the story of an innovator--architect Howard Roark--and his
battle against the tradition-worshipping establishment.
The Ayn Rand Institute receives more
essay submissions to its contests than any other national contest. Over $93,000
is given out each year in prize money to high school and college students from
around the world. More information on this contest, as well as on “Anthem,”
“Atlas Shrugged” and a new contest on “We the Living,” is available online.
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