Ayn Rand Institute Awards
$10,000 Prize
September 8, 2010
IRVINE, CA--Bayside High School
junior Cheska Mauban from Queens Village, NY, is $10,000 richer this
month! Cheska is the winner of the Ayn
Rand Institute’s annual “The Fountainhead” essay contest, for which she
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.
Over 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, US
Jared Hinkle, MMI Preparatory
School, Weatherly, PA, US
Diane Shahan, Bluefield High
School, Bramwell, WV, US
Alysha Labrum, Century High
School, Pocatello, ID, US
Hanne Paine, West High School,
Salt Lake City, UT, US
Third-prize winners ($1,000):
Micah Fitzgerald, New Haven
High School, New Haven, IN, USA
Cody Franklin, Bartlesville Sr
High School, Bartlesville, OK, US
Richad Becker, Kinnelon High
School, Kinnelon, NJ, US
Raluca Ifrim, Redmond High
School, Sammamish, WA, US
Sarah Waddill, Clover High
School, Rock Hill, SC, US
Ruth Wong, Earl Haig Secondary
School, North York, ON, CA
Ashley Feng, Pingry School,
Watchung, NJ, US
Sara Stewart, Handley High
School, Roanoke, AL, US
Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong,
FFCA High School, Calgary, AB, CA
Kelly Buckley, Key School,
Annapolis, MD, US
The contest also awards 45
finalists ($100) and 175 semi-finalists ($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 essay contests on this
contest as well those on “Anthem”, “Atlas Shrugged” and a new contest on “We
the Living” is available
online.
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Ayn Rand Institute promotes the philosophy of Ayn Rand, author of “Atlas
Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead.” For more information on Objectivism’s unique
point of view and ARI’s high school and college programs, go to ARI’s
website.
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