2009 Award Winners
Each honoree’s name is followed by the name of their school and the city/state in which they reside.
Grades 1-2
1st Ryan Bishop – Quail Lake Charter (Clovis);2nd Ryan M. Hioe – Garfield Elementary (Clovis);
3rd Mark Topoozian – Malloch (Fresno)
Grades 3-4
1st Talie Lynn Cloud – Quail Lake (Clovis); 2nd Adam Abajian – Quail Lake (Clovis); 3rd Morgan McLaury – Sun Empire (Kerman)
Honorable Mention: Jordan Ayerza – Sun Empire (Kerman); Amanda Street – Big Creek Elementary (Big Creek); Macey Hammerstrom – Reagan Elementary (Kingsburg)
Grades 5-6
1st Leslie Chavez – Powers-Ginsburg (Fresno);2nd Samantha C. Apodaca – Fancher Creek (Fresno)
3rd Uriel Bosques – Powers-Ginsburg (Fresno)
Honorable Mention: Luis Figueroa – Powers-Ginsburg (Fresno);Brandon Pattillo – Powers-Ginsburg (Fresno)
Grades 7-9
1st Faith McCoy – Mariposa Middle School (Mariposa); 2nd Chlorissa Prothro – Foothill Middle School (Tollhouse); 3rd Arianna Brown – Central H.S. West (Fresno)
Honorable Mention: Sandra Limon – Bullard H.S. (Fresno); Pamela Bobadilla – Edison H.S. (Fresno)
William Tang – Kastner Intermediate (Fresno); Kristin Simmons – Rayburn Intermediate (Clovis)
Julia Crespi – Mariposa Middle School (Mariposa); Raquel Campozano – El Monte Middle School (Orosi)
Grades 10-12
1st Quinn Western – San Joaquin Memorial (Fresno);2nd Charles M. Kennedy – The Wardlaw-Hartridge School (Edison, N.J.; 3rd Elijah Cotton – J.C. Montgomery (Hanford)
Honorable Mention: Molly Kim Lao – Sunnyside H.S. (Fresno)
College
1st Christel Teesy – Fresno Pacific University (Fresno); 2nd Eileen Frank – College of the Sequoias (Visalia); 3rd Deborah Hamilton – Clovis Center (Clovis)