Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science student Victoria Gong, Class of 2019, received two National Medals from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Program at its National Awards Ceremony June 6 at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Gong was awarded a Gold Medal for her “flash fiction” story, “Monsoon Season,” and also a Silver Medal with Distinction and a $1,000 scholarship for her Senior Writing Portfolio. She was recognized on stage at the Carnegie Hall ceremony June 6 and later read from her portfolio June 7 at Pratt Institute’s Pratt Manhattan Gallery.
Speakers at the Carnegie Hall ceremony included actors Tina Fey and Rose Byrne, U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, and designer Zac Posen, a 1999 Scholastic medalist.
Gong and her creative writing teacher Emma Richardson traveled to New York to attend Scholastic’s national events with funding from the MSMS Foundation.
Founded in 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Program is the oldest and most prestigious high school art and writing competition in the U.S. This year, students across America submitted almost 340,000 works in 29 categories, and less than 1 percent of those works received national awards.
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