Baldwin Students Win 62 Scholastic Writing & Arts Awards
The Scholastic Arts and Writing Award is a nationwide contest that honors outstanding achievement in high school visual and literary arts. This year, Baldwin students earned 62 awards.
The three levels of awards are:
Gold Key: The very best works submitted to local programs. Gold Key works are automatically considered for national-level recognition.
Silver Key: Standout works submitted to local programs that demonstrate exceptional ability.
Honorable Mention: Accomplished works submitted to local programs showing great skill and potential.
In the Arts category, Baldwin had four students recognized with eight art awards. Three students won four Silver Keys and three students were recognized with four Honorable Mentions.
In the Writing category, Baldwin had 14 students recognized with 54 awards. Eleven students won 25 Gold Keys and will move on to the national level. Nine students won 26 Silver Keys and two students won three Honorable Mentions.
The following Baldwin students were recognized for their creativity in arts and writing:
Art Awards:
Silver Keys:
Megan Cooper '21 "Shining Through Pleather" in Fashion Design
Megan Cooper '21 "Duo Formality" in Fashion Design
Isabelle Lee ’21 “Liberation” in Sculpture
Bethany Xu '21 "Self-Portrait" in Digital Art
Honorable Mention:
Megan Cooper '21 "Ethereal" Fashion Design
Isabelle Lee ’21 “Empyrean” in Photography
Isabelle Lee ’21 “Ocean Conservation Museum” in Architecture & Industrial Design
Ava Olson ’21 “America’s Monster” in Sculpture
Writing Awards:
Gold Keys:
Bella Aldrete ’20 “Starfishing” in Science Fiction & Fantasy
Noor Bowman ’20 “Black in America” in Writing Portfolio
Noor Bowman ’20 “Black Bodies” in Poetry
Sherry Chen ’22 “Thirty Years” in Poetry
Sophia Lee ’22 “[I’m Not] Void” in Poetry
Sophia Lee ’22 “Butterflies in the Wind” in Short Story
Sophia Lee ’22 “As Pawns and Pirouettes” in Poetry
Sophia Lee ’22 “Thanatos, Thief of Time” in Poetry
Sophia Lee ’22 “Once Drifting in Chimera Sea” in Poetry
Sophia Lee ’22 “Eeyore Unwinged” in Poetry
Sophia Lee ’22 “Vanity” in Flash Fiction
Sophia Lee ’22 “Nothing Gets Between Me and My Sushi … Except Plastic Maybe” in Journalism
Sophia Lee ’22 “Windows” in Personal Essay & Memoir
Sophia Lee ’22 “A Bittersweet Silhouette” in Poetry
Elisa McKinley ’20 “Grey-tinted Glasses” in Flash Fiction
Menal Siddiqui ’20 “Three Worlds “Poetry”
Estella Stein ’22 “Waiting for Frost” in Short Story
Makenna Walko ’23 “Sunshine State of Mind” in Short Story
Bella Xia ’21 “Eyes of Sky-Like Azure” in Flash Fiction
Grace Yun ’20 “It Is Our Consequence We Must Face” in Flash Fiction
Jessica Zhu ’21 “Celestial Specks” in Science Fiction & Fantasy
Jessica Zhu ’21 “Cicada” in Flash Fiction
Jessica Zhu ’21 “In Euro’s Embrace” in Flash Fiction
Jessica Zhu ’21 “I Lie on Broken Glass” in Short Story
Jessica Zhu ’21 “Food” in Science Fiction & Fantasy
Silver Keys:
Noor Bowman ’20 “Street Corners” in Poetry
Noor Bowman ’20 “Natural Selection” in Poetry
Noor Bowman ’20 “Comfortable With You” in Short Story
Noor Bowman ’20 “A Baby’s Chance” in Short Story
Noor Bowman ’20 “Untold / Isolation” in Poetry
Noor Bowman ’20 “True Story” in Poetry
Sherry Chen ’22 “Grand Vessel” in Poetry
Sherry Chen ’22 “Medusa’s appeal” in Poetry
Sherry Chen ’22 “Moonlit nights” in Poetry
Sherry Chen ’22 “In Grand Canyon” in Poetry
Sherry Chen ’22 “When love has gone” in Poetry
Gwyneth Conger ’23 “A World of My Own” in Short Story
Gwyneth Conger ’23 “The Dreamworld” in Poetry
Gwyneth Conger ’23 “Who are we?” in Poetry
Sophia Lee ’22 “Faces of Mona Lisa” in Poetry
Sophia Lee ’22 “Hey Mr. Gatz, What Is Gatsby?” in Poetry
Sophia Lee ’22 “My Shadowed Sun” in Poetry
Sophia Lee ’22 “Sculpted” in Poetry
Sophia Lee ’22 “Earth of Glass” in Poetry
Sophia Lee ’22 “an empty fish head” in Poetry
Menal Siddiqui ’20 “Take the Weight” in Poetry
Lisa Wang ’20 “My Journey from and of and to the Heart” in Personal Essay & Memoir
Leah White ’20 “Electric Blue” in Short Story
Bella Xia ’21 “A-Symmetry” in Poetry
Bella Xia ’21 “Forgive Me” in Science Fiction & Fantasy
Grace Yun ’20 “Paper Airplane Sailing to the Moon” in Poetry