Announcing Poetry Contest Finalists: come to the awards announcements and public reading on Friday 3/23 at 7 pm in Smith Banquet Hall on the Randolph campus.
Congratulations to the Randolph College Science Festival
Poetry Finalists! All finalists will be published in a book, and at the reading
on Friday, we will announce
the top three winners from each group. The public is welcome to this catered
event. We invite any student finalist to read their own poem, but if they do not
want to, we will have one of our judges read it at the public reading.
Congratulations to all entrants, we were extremely
impressed and pleased with all 750 submissions! It was a tough competition with
so many poems, and I truly believe everyone who entered deserved to win. Thank
goodness I did not have to be a judge, it would have killed me to eliminate any
poem. Be assured that the poems were judged by real poets: faculty poets and
senior creative writing majors.
Thank you so much for your help in making this event a
success, and I hope to see you at the reading on Friday.
| title | Student name | Grade | School | Teacher |
| Science | Mark | 1 | Elon Elementary | Tiffany Burchette |
| Science Rocks | Jack Wimmer | 2 | Thomas Jefferson Elementary School | n/a |
| Cats | John Vo Wixted | 2 | Homeschooled | n/a |
| Sun | Becca Richards | 4 | Bedford Hills Elementary | Chelsey Dews |
| Mimas | Gabriel Quintero | 4 | Homeschooled | n/a |
| Sunlight | Alex Fleshman | 5 | R.S Payne Elementry School | Patsy Sellers |
| Fishing | Claire Martin | 5 | Boonsboro Elementary School | Peggy Terrell |
| Atoms in the World | Emily Thomas | 5 | Rockfish River Elementary | Sharon Aldridge |
| The Ocean | Haley Thomas | 5 | Tye River Elementary School | Lisa Schoener |
| Volcanoes | Hunter Smith | 5 | Goodview Elementary School | Carrie Perry |
| Why Does Matter Matter? | Ian Strong | 5 | Tye River Elementary School | Lisa Schoener |
| Science Acrostic Poem | Keyondra Carter | 5 | Tye River Elementary School | Lisa Schoener |
| Penguin | Lucy Jablonski | 5 | R.S Payne Elementry School | Patsy Sellers |
| The Moon | Maggie Kicklighter | 5 | R.S Payne Elementry School | Patsy Sellers |
| No More a Planet | Paul Marselus | 5 | Homeschooled | n/a |
| Science | Alyson Walkup | 6 | Forest Middle School | Charlene Cobbins |
| Classification | Ariel Kraje | 6 | Forest Middle School | Charlene Cobbins |
| Science! | Bailey Tibbs | 6 | Forest Middle School | Charlene Cobbins |
| Running | Emma Eubank | 6 | James River Day School | Becca Eubank |
| Magic of Planting | Hannah White | 6 | James River Day School | Becca Eubank |
| Have You Ever Wondered | Michael Mawn | 6 | James River Day School | Becca Eubank |
| The Cell | Noele Galindo | 6 | Forest Middle School | Charlene Cobbins |
| Galapagos Finches | Stephanie Kee | 6 | Dunbar Middle School | Sue Mclure |
| Science! | Brandi Mitchell | 7 | not provided | not provided |
| The Frog | Jeremy Jewell | 7 | Rustburg Middle School | Andrea Rice |
| The Gene School | Katherine Morse | 7 | Dunbar Middle School | Kenna Tarkenton |
| The Math of My Mind | Martha J. Rose | 7 | Linkhorne Middle School | not provided |
| Parts Of The Ear | Whitney Nash | 7 | Sandusky Middle School | Linda Borland |
| Pangaea | Erin Smith | 9 | New Vistas | Marie Arrington |
| Pangea | Siri Johnson | 9 | New Vistas | Marie Arrington |
| What We Do | Courtney Taylor | 10 | New Vistas | Marie Arrington |
| Astrum | Jonas Wilhelm | 10 | Virginia Episcopal School | Marcia Yochum |
| High School Lab | Eric Antley | 11 | Virginia Episcopal School | Marcia Yochum |
| untitled | George Sherman | 11 | Amherst County High School | not provided |
| Attraction | Gray Clark | 11 | Virginia Episcopal School | Matt LaFreniere |
| Supernova | Victoria Grabeel | 11 | Virginia Episcopal School | Marcia Yochum |
| The electrical flows | Bowen Zhang | 12 | Virginia Episcopal School | Matt LaFreniere |
| Inertia | Ching Cheung | 12 | Virginia Episcopal School | Matt LaFreniere |
| Science Mystery | Martin Owens | 12 | Virginia Episcopal School | Marcia Yochum and Matt LaFreniere |
| The Voice | Richard Yu | 12 | Virginia Episcopal School | Matt LaFreniere |
| It must be | Ryan Chun | 12 | Virginia Episcopal School | Matt LaFreniere |
Peter Sheldon 434-947-8488
Professor of Physics
http://physics.randolphcollege.edu
Director, Randolph College Science Festival
Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA 24503
(founded as Randolph-Macon Woman's College)