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MHS student one of 25 winners of nat’l picture contest
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Posted on Apr 21 2015
COLUMBIA, Missouri—A Marianas High School student has been chosen as one of the winners of the 1 for All’s Picture Freedom contest, according to a news release from the organizers.
Jack Stewart of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, is one of 25 students across the nation who will receive $1,000 scholarships for sharing original photos and artwork on social media as part of the contest.
The weeklong scholarship contest celebrated the five freedoms of the First Amendment: speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. View the winning entries at 1forall.us.
“It was truly gratifying to see the range of ways students pictured the five freedoms of the First Amendment,” said Ken Paulson, president of the Newseum Institute’s First Amendment Center, dean of the College of Mass Communication at Middle Tennessee State University and founder of 1 for All. “This competition was a vibrant reminder of how free expression fuels creativity.”
The contest was organized by 1 for All, the American Society of News Editors, the Journalism Education Association, and the John Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies at Middle Tennessee State University, with funding provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
“The judges, all members of the Journalism Education Association, were quite amazed with the creativity of the Picture Freedom submissions, for sure,” said Mark Newton, president of JEA. “More importantly, the judges were impressed with the strong messages of freedom in the submissions. When young adults use their First Amendment freedoms to articulate those very same five freedoms with a creative social media voice, those freedoms rumble and those young adults are empowered.”
The winning students were selected from hundreds of entries based on originality, creativity and clarity in conveying the theme of freedom. Students posted original photos and artwork using the hashtag #PictureFreedom to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter from Feb. 22 to 28.
