Aldo Leopold Writing Contest Winners2017-2024 |
Aldo Leopold Writing Contest Winners2017-2024 |
2024 Aldo Leopold Writing Contest TOPIC and PROMPT
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“Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides. But they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history, to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.” ─ ALDO LEOPOLD, "Engineering and Conservation" (1938)
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FIRST PLACE
Winner of the David E. Stuart Humanitarian Award for Special Merit
COLETTE LEE
Grade 11 Santa Fe Prep, Santa Fe Teacher: Drew Walker |
2023 Aldo Leopold Writing Contest TOPIC and PROMPT
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“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” ─ ALDO LEOPOLD, Foreward, A Sand County Almanac
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FIRST PLACE
ALESSANDRA SEAWRIGHT
Grade 6 La Mariposa Montessori School, Santa Fe Teacher: Katrina Holder |
HONORABLE MENTION ALIANA HARDY
Grade 7 Native American Community Academy, ABQ Teacher: Morgan Barraza |
HONORABLE MENTION EVELYN LEMON
Grade 6 La Mariposa Montessori School, Santa Fe Teacher: Katrina Holder |
2022 Aldo Leopold Writing Contest TOPIC and PROMPT
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“Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals … When a change occurs in one part of the circuit, many other parts must adjust themselves to it.” ─ ALDO LEOPOLD, “The Land Ethic,” A Sand County Almanac
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FIRST PLACE
ALEX HANNA, Grade 7
Albuquerque, Hanna Homeschool |
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FIRST PLACE
TIMOTHY RYER, Grade 9
Mandela International Magnet School, Santa Fe |
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FIRST PLACE
ELIOT PATTON, Grade 10
Albuquerque - Bosque School |
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2021 Aldo Leopold Writing Contest TOPIC and PROMPT
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“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a good shovel.”
– ALDO LEOPOLD, “Pines Above the Snow,” A Sand County Almanac |
FIRST PLACE
and Overall Best Essay DYLAN COMO-MOSCONI, Grade 8 Mandela International Magnet School, Santa Fe
Teacher: Holly Call |
HONORABLE MENTION CHARLES CHAPMAN, Grade 8
Mandela Int'l Magnet School, Santa Fe Teacher: Holly Call |
HONORABLE MENTION |
FIRST PLACE
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GRADES 10-12
HONORABLE MENTION GRADES 10-12
Isabella Clark, Grade 11, Mandela International Magnet School (Santa Fe) Mireya Sanchez-Maes, Grade 12, Mayfield High School (Las Cruces) Sloan Tafoya, Grade 10, San Juan College High School (Farmington) |
GRADES 8-9
HONORABLE MENTION GRADES 8-9
Akansha Nanda, Grade 8, Mandela International Magnet School (Santa Fe) Maggi Van Drunen, Grade 9, Rehoboth Christian High School (Rehoboth) |
GRADES 6-7
HONORABLE MENTION GRADES 6-7
Dylan Como-Mosconi, Grade 7, Mandela International Magnet School (Santa Fe) Ruben Cuesta Ray, Grade 7, Monte del Sol Charter School (Santa Fe) Claire Johnston, Grade 7, Mandela International Magnet School (Santa Fe) |
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ELIJAH RUSSELL
GRADES 8-9 Jimmy Carter Middle School (ALBUQUERQUE) |
PETER WATSON
GRADES 10-12 Los Alamos High School |