SMAR Fair Housing Essay and Poster Contest 2006 Winners
The Essay contest's continuing theme is "What My Home Means to Me." Each year the students manage to provide touching, funny and heartwarming works. Hundreds of essays are reviewed and judged by the members of the SMAR Fair Housing Committee. The top one from each County are invited, along with family, teachers, principals and friends to a reception held at the SMAR offices in Hughesville. The winners read their works and receive certificates of recognition.
Poster art is based on a new Fair Housing awareness theme each year. Posters are first judged by local Association committees who select their favorites from each county. The winners are then sent to the State Association for final consideration. The State winners are published in a calendar that is distributed all across Maryland to promote Fair Housing awareness. Copies of the calendar are available at the SMAR offices in Hughesville. |
1) Terri Leonard of the SMAR Community Relations and CARE Award Committee.
2) Pepe Gandara of the SMAR Community Relations and CARE Award Committee.
3) Sample of the many posters entered.
4) So many wonderful entries! How can we choose a winner?
5) Winnning poster by John Groeger. | Larger copy of poster.
6) Winning poster by Michelle Ann Collins. | Larger copy poster.
7) Winning poster for both local and State level by Jordan Wood. | Larger copy of poster.
8) Winning Essay for Calvert County by Katie Minchey
9) Winning Essay for St. Mary's County by Christina M Mitchell.
10) Winning Essay for Charles County by Katelyn Gilroy.
11) Second Place Essay for Calvert County by Noel Parreira.
12) Second Place Essay for St Mary's County by Isabella Sarlo
13) Second Place Essay for Charles County by Shuguan Dunn
14) Taking a look at the winners.
15) Sample Essay 1
16) Sample Essay 2
17) Sample Essay 3
18) Sample Essay 4
19) Sample Essay 5
20) Sample Essay 6
21) Sample Essay 7
22) Winning artwork
23) Winning Essays
24) Winning Essays 2
25) The winners
26) Winners & SMAR Community Relations Committee and SMAR President Melinda Roark
27) Christina Mitchell | Isabella Sarlo | Jordan Wood | Katelyn Gilroy | Katie Minchey |
28) Noel Parreira | Shuguan Dunn | Michelle Collins |
29) They're good!
30) Proud Winners.
Note to parents, teachers and especially the students: Our camera's batteries were simply not up to the task! We regret that the images posted here are of low quality. Some were too dark or blurry to post at all, which led to some of our winners being underrepresented in the pictures. We'd be happy to post additional images of this event if you would like to share them with us. Please email them by clicking here, or send printed copies to SMAR, (address below) and we will scan them for posting on this page.
