RateYourStudyAbroad is pleased to announce the winners of our travel essay and photography competitions.
We had 136 entries from study abroad students and graduates at colleges around the country.
Here are the results.
Photography Contest
Allan Comport, professor of art at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) selected the winners for our photography contest.
1st Prize – “Guitarrista,” Russell Edwards, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) – $300
2nd Prize – “Amatikulu Boy,” Courtney Kandler, University of Puget Sound – $100
Honorable Mention – Photography
David Jennings, University of Oklahoma – “Whirling Dervish in the Mevlana City”
Larry Hogan, University of Arizona – “Ganvie Carpool”
Nathanael Hovee, Western Kentucky University – “Millennium Bridge to St. Paul’s”
Caroline Atwood, University of South Carolina – “Lighthouse”
Edward Kimble, Penn State University – “Wild Flower”
Leo Redmond, The New School – “Turkey Further Afield”
Andrew Farrand, Georgetown University – “Boy at the Medersa Pool”
Kayla Miller, Agnes Scott College – “December’s Dingle Peninsula”
Harvey Liu, Claremont McKenna College – “Onward”
Tam Le, University of Texas at Austin – “Neptune’s Wrath”
Clare Wocken, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire – “Solitary Company”
Qiao Yi Zhou, Elon University – “Bornholm”
Yuri Hanada, MIT – “School Lunchtime”
Jacqueline Cummins, Ball State University – “Venetian Couple”
Grace Reinhalter, Occidental College – “World Cup 2010 South Africa”
Elise Wall, Beloit College – “Berlin Bubbles”
Chole Makarick, Kent State University – “Louvre Museum in the Traveler’s Eyes”
Diana Jue, MIT Urban Studies and Planning – “Fetching Water”
Justin Batcheller, Brown University – “Pregnant Red-Eyed Tree-Frog Perched”
Takako Mino, Claremont McKenna College – “Sunrise on the Nile”
Edeh Ngozi, Talladega College – “Life’s Journey”
Travel Writing Contest
1st Prize – “Maid Man” by Adam Douglas, San Francisco State University ’10 -$1,000
After working in the publishing industry for 10 years, Adam Douglas decided to go back to school and study Japanese, having fallen in love with the country and its culture. He has made five trips to the country, including living there as an exchange student to study the language. He writes about his experience in Tokyo at a “maid cafe”, a type of popular new destination for young Japanese male techies.
2nd Prize – “Untitled” by Sinead Byrne, Bard College at Simon’s Rock ’11 – $200
Sinead is finishing her senior year as a theater major. She traveled to Ghana for her spring semester abroad last year with Global Routes. Sinead writes about her experience as an only child, raised in a liberal state, living abroad in the communal world of a large Ghanian family.
Honorable Mention – Travel Writing
Takako Mino, Claremont McKenna College – “Reviving Hope Through Art”
Leo Redmond, The New School, Graduate Program in International Affairs – “Turkey Further Afield”
Pyper Scharer, Claremont McKenna College – “Learning and Living in Varanasi”
Heidi Carlson, Claremont McKenna College – “Bogs and Butter”
Michele Robertson, Acalenes High School, “A Kiwi Grove in Israel”
Renee Johnson – “Studying Abroad”
Jonathan Koch, Davidson College – “Into A Sort of Oneness”
Egle Paulauskaite, Rhode Island School of Design – “In A Roman Sewing Atelier”
Angelica Quicksey, Claremont McKenna College – “A Death in Buenos Aires”
Larry Hogan Jr., University of Arizona, “House of Slaves”
Kali Blevins, Davidson College, “Come Si Dice ‘Foreigner’”
Sarah Trager, Wellesley College – “From a to ä”
Andrew Farrand, Georgetown University – “From Morocco to Melilla”
Ian Thompson, Harvard College – “The Desert Garden“
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Good day,
could You please tell me if I have the opportunity to participate in the travel essay competition.
Thank You in advance for reply.
With regards,
Svitlana
i wish to study abroad
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