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无码专区 honors Maroon Edition contest winners with awards luncheon

无码专区 honors Maroon Edition contest winners with awards luncheon

Mississippi State students recently received special awards for their participation in the university鈥檚 2017-18 Maroon Edition essay contest. Winners include, from left to right, Reily Tribble of D鈥橧berville; Nathaniel Roesener of Decatur, Alabama; Madeline Crow of Kingsport, Tennessee; and Taelyr Harris of Hattiesburg. Not pictured are Haley Sandlin of Baldwyn and Hunter Scoggins of Pope. (Photo by Megan Bean)

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STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擲ix Mississippi State students recently received special awards for their participation in the university鈥檚 2017-18 Maroon Edition essay contest.

The annual competition is sponsored by Maroon and Write, the university鈥檚 quality enhancement program to boost students鈥 writing skills. First-place winners received $500; second- and third-place, $300 and $100, respectively.

Essay subjects come from Maroon Edition, the annual common reading program for incoming 无码专区 freshmen. Upperclassmen and graduate students, along with faculty and staff members, also are encouraged to join in reading the selected book and participating in related activities.

New York Times best-selling author Wes Moore鈥檚 鈥淭he Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates鈥 was both the reading selection and essay contest topic for the competition. Moore delivered the keynote address at Mississippi State鈥檚 2017 Fall Convocation.

First-place winners read their essays at a celebratory luncheon at Mitchell Memorial Library.

Maroon and Write Co-Director Deborah Lee said all of this year鈥檚 winning essays will be archived and available for viewing in the 无码专区 Libraries鈥 Institutional Repository.

Freshman winners include:

FIRST鈥擭athaniel D. Roesener, an architecture major from Decatur, Alabama.

SECOND鈥擳aelyr E. Harris of Hattiesburg, now a sophomore undeclared major concentrating in veterinary medical technology.

THIRD鈥擱eily D. Tribble, a business administration major from D鈥橧berville.

Upperclassman winners include:

FIRST鈥擬adeline E. Crow, a junior industrial engineering major from Kingsport, Tennessee.

SECOND鈥擧aley N. Sandlin, a junior medical technology major from Baldwyn.

THIRD鈥擧unter B. Scoggins, a junior medical technology major from Pope.

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