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(City of Richardson)<\/p>\nRICHARDSON \u2013 The winners of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Essay Contest and Black History Month Art Contest were recognized at last night\u2019s City Council meeting. Seven artists\/authors were awarded $200 and their essays and art pieces will be published in the June edition of Richardson Today.<\/p>\n
The contests were open to students who live in the City of Richardson or attend a school in Richardson. The Richardson City Council sponsored the contests in cooperation with the Community Inclusion and Engagement Commission, Cultural Arts Commission, Richardson ISD, Plano ISD, and UT Dallas to promote, embrace, and celebrate community diversity and inclusion.<\/p>\n
Martin Luther King, Jr. Essay Contest: \u201cThe Ripple Effect of Kindness and Justice\u201d<\/p>\n
In the essay contest, students were asked to write an essay based on the prompt: Dr. King once said, \u201cLife\u2019s most persistent and urgent question is, \u2018What are you doing for others?\u2019\u201d Share examples of how you feel acts of kindness, big or small, can create lasting change.<\/p>\n
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The winners are:
4th \u2013 6th Grade \u2013 Temple Adams
7th \u2013 9th Grade \u2013 Kerod Alemu
10th \u2013 12th Grade \u2013 Kishore Ravishankar<\/p>\n
Black History Month Art Contest: \u201cUnsung Heroes\u201d<\/p>\n
In the art contest, students were asked to design a piece based on the prompt: Not all heroes make it into history books. Create a tribute to a lesser-known figure in your life, a community leader, or a family member who has made a meaningful impact.<\/p>\n
The winners are:
1st \u2013 3rd Grade \u2013 Praneel Thakkar
4th \u2013 6th Grade \u2013 Cohen Hughes
7th \u2013 9th Grade \u2013 Violet Scamardo
10th \u2013 12th Grade \u2013 Josie Fick<\/p>\n
Thakkar and Hughes also won in the same categories in the 2025 Black History Month Art Contest.
To read the winning essays and see the winning art, visit www.cor.net\/ArtandEssayContest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RICHARDSON \u2013 The winners of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Essay Contest and Black History Month Art Contest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-282159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}