(Piscataway,
NJ—May 19, 2016) Out of almost 2,000 letters submitted from New Jersey in the
2015-2016 Letters About Literature contest,
High Tech High School received notice that six of its students had been honored
at the 2016 Letters About Literature Award Ceremony at Rutgers University’s Livingston
College Student Center, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech
High School.
Letters About Literature received almost 2,000 letters from New
Jersey students. After two rounds of
judging at the national level, seventy-four letters at the high school level qualified
for at least two more rounds of judging at the state level. Judges originally recognized twenty students
from High Tech out of these seventy-four letters to advance to the final round
of judging.
Six
of these High Tech finalists, however, received honors at the Award Ceremony: Bayonne’s Natalie Skibniewski; Nicole Lee of Guttenberg;
Kearny’s Andrew Tran; North Bergen residents Sarah Bacha, Genesis Cevallos, and
Zhixiu Zheng.
Letters About Literature, a reading and writing contest for
students in grades 4-12, asks each student to read a book, poem, or speech and
compose a letter to the author (whether living or dead) about the ways that the
author’s work affected that student personally. Contest judges at state and national levels
choose from tens of thousands of letters gleaned from students all across the
country. The
2015-2016 Letters About Literature
contest, made possible by a generous grant from the Dollar General Literacy
Foundation, with additional support from gifts to the Center for the Book in
the Library of Congress, celebrates authors who have helped shape America and
the world itself.
