Hats off to Read Across America

Started in 1998 as a way to get kids excited about reading, NEA's Read Across America has become the nation's largest reading event.
The year-round program culminates each year on or near Dr. Seuss's birthday, March 2.

Delaware’s Read Across America Billboard Contest 2009 Winners

GRAND PRIZE WINNER $200 U.S. Savings Bond and artwork on a highway billboard this summer
Julia DuPlessis
Grade 11, Newark High School, Christina School District
Edina Buzgon, teacher

Beginning August 3, 2009, this billboard will be seen in four locations for one month:
Old Baltimore Pike, north side, one mile east of Rte. 72, facing west
Kirkwood Highway, south side, 200 feet east of Harmony Road, facing west
Kirkwood Highway, south side, 200 feet west of Possum Park Road, facing east
Rte. 141 Basin Road, 400 feet north of West University Avenue, facing north.

Grades 9-12 Winner $100 U.S. Savings Bond
Ashley Tsu 
10th grade, Newark High School, Christina School District
Edina Buzgon, teacher

Grades 5-8 Winner $100 U.S. Savings Bond
Kourtney Olsen
Grade 5, W.B. Simpson E.S., Caesar Rodney School District
Michael Kenny, teacher

Honorable Mention (grades 5-8) $50 U.S. Savings Bond
Drew Sanclemente
Grade 6
Alfred G. Waters Middle School, Appoquinimink School District
Sarah Weir, Christine Payne and Elizabeth. Stokes, teachers

Honorable Mention (grades 5-8) $50 U.S. Savings Bond
Christian Yienger
Grade 6
Fifer Middle School, Caesar Rodney School District
Julie Price and Vesteria Mears-Wilson, teachers

Grades 3-4 Winner $100 U.S. Savings Bond
Valerie Gustafson
Grade 4, W.B. Simpson E.S., Caesar Rodney School District
Michael Kenny, teacher

Grades K-2 Winner $100 U.S. Savings Bond
Riley Tracy, W.B. Simpson E.S., Caesar Rodney School District
Michael Kenny, teacher

Last year's Grand Prize Winner on a highway billboard using the message of the book Oh the Places You'll Go!

All of these winners were featured, with their winning designs, on a full-page display in the Wilmington News Journal, Monday, March 3, Read Across America Day.
There were 200 entries from 18 schools.

Grand Prize Winner
Kindergarten
Paul L. Dunbar E.S.
Teacher:
Jolene L. Cross-Morris

Winner - Grades 9-12
Christian Booth
Newark High School
Teacher: Edina Buzgon

Honorable Mention - Grades 9-12
Julia Luedtke
Polytech High School
Teacher:Bob McMullen

Winner - Grades 6-8
Alexa Rosenblatt and Amy Snyder
Grade 6
Harlan E.S.
Brandywine School District
Teacher: Julie O’Leary

Winner - Grades 3-5
Devon Herrington Grade 4
Thurgood Marshall E.S.
Christina School District
Teacher: Mrs. Ventresca

Honorable Mention - Grades 3-5
Brian Orr Grade 5
Harlan E.S.
Teacher: Julie O’Leary

Honorable Mention
Cedar Lane E.S.
Art Club, grades 2-5
Teacher: Carrie Bryan

Each year here in Delaware we promote a reading contest for your students. This year's contest involves producing and describing a billboard poster encouraging people to keep reading, keep learning and discovering how much fun learning is. The billboard should invite the community to keep learning, to keep valuing education - no matter who they are, where they live, how old or young they are.
All K-12 regular public school and charter school students in Delaware are invited to participate.

Prizes
The Grand Prize winner will see his/her billboard poster blown up on Delaware's highways as part of DSEA's Great Schools media campaign.
Division winners will see their names and artwork displayed in the News Journal on Read Across America Day. They will also receive prizes which may include all or some of the following, depending on the grade: a visit from the Cat in the Hat, gift certificates, and/or books for the classroom library.

www.nea.org/readacross
www.seussville.com

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