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2006 Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest

First Place

Ann Pedtke, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
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Second Place

Darren Beattie, University of Chicago, Chicago, I
L Laura Mazer, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Doug Wong, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Third Place

Jay Bahadur, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Jave Galt-Miller, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
Antonia Hoyland, Peace College, Raleigh, NC
Ben O'Neill, Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia
Nicole Pepperl, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Finalists

Sean Bryen, The University of Sydney, Australia
Meredith A. E.  Collier, Washington College, Chestertown, MD
Kristen Davis, Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC
Molly Fels, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Talyah Gaya, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada
Elisabeth Gilbert, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Cole Harvey, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Elizabeth Jacobs, New York University, New York City, NY,
Lisa Lipshires, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
Ji Ma, Texas A&M University - College Station, College Station, TX
Mark McLaughlin, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Dwanna L. Munger, Clark State Community College, Springfield, OH
Joanna Pearson, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
John Robinson, Yale University, CT
Cody Rutledge, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Lucas Salazar, Pace University, New York, NY
Melissa Schoenberger, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Seth Shearer, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
Kyle Steele, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Peter Zuckerman, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Semi-Finalists

Christian Atkins, Oakland Community College, Royal Oak, MI
Andrew Bay, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Anna Beryozkina, MA College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, MA
Rebecca M Blocksome, University of Primorska, Glagljaska, Koper, Slovenia
Ben Everhart, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN
April Fisher, New York University -- Draper Program, New York, NY
Deahna Fumarol, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Derek Jacobs, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA
Nokwazi Jahde, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
David James, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
James Kelly, Colby College, Waterville, ME
Katie Lovell, Saint Martin's University, Lacey, WA
Elissa McColl, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Cassondra McHugh, Oxford University, Oxford, England
Brandon Palinski, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Ramona Schroeder, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
Kara Soderstrom, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Julia Troutt, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Spencer Trueax, Portland State University, Portland, OR
Rima Turner, Cornell Unversity, Ithaca, NY