{"id":24013,"date":"2025-11-04T05:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/24013\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T05:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:40:07","slug":"2025-earth-day-essay-contest-awards-announced-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/24013\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Earth Day Essay Contest awards announced \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Scranton announced the medalists of its Earth Day Essay Contest for students in grades 5-12 at an Evening of Environmental Science event on campus in April. From left are Mark Murphy, director of the Office of Sustainability at the university; Amelia Farry, a criminal justice major from South Abington Twp.; Chris DeNaples from St. Clare\u2019s\/St. Paul\u2019s Elementary School; Alexa Cutter, a media production and journalism major from Massapequa, New York; Sean Kiernan, Ian Ferriera and Dante DeVitto, all from Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligence Charter School; Veronica Herrera Acosta from West Scranton High School; Rosalie Edelstein, Benny Hynds and Divya Timsina, all from Howard Gardner; Samantha Kosmar, an environmental science major from Old Tappan, New Jersey; Lila Tschampel, from Howard Gardner; and Rebekah Thompson, an occupational therapy major from Bedminster, New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Scranton announced the medalists of its Earth Day Essay Contest for students in grades 5-12&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,28,727,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-24013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-community","9":"tag-lackawanna-county","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-photos-and-videos","13":"tag-scranton","14":"tag-scranton-headlines","15":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}