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| Gold Key award winners for the Scholastic Art and Writing competition. |
Charlotte Christian School visual arts and creative writing students in middle and upper school won a total of 54 awards at the 2018 Mid-Carolina Regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Competition. The competition featured more than 1,900 individual art entries and senior portfolios representing the best of the best from public and private schools throughout Mecklenburg and the surrounding counties.
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is administered by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers and is the longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for student achievement in the visual arts and creative writing in the United States.
Gold Key winners in both visual arts and creative writing will advance to compete in the National Scholastic Art & Writing Competition.
Click here to view the award-winning art work.
Congratulations to the following winners:
Gold Key Awards
| Hanxi Chang | Senior | Photography | Airborne |
| Evangelia Edwards | Senior | Poetry | 3022 |
| Gracie Hanna | Grade 7 | Drawing and Illustration | Organic Jewels |
| Emily Ketron | Junior | Photography | Overcoming Chaos |
| Lyndon Lloyd | Senior | Personal Essay/Memoir | Drinking the Poison |
| Allie McCreary | Junior | Short Story | Unreal Reality |
| Christina McEwen | Grade 8 | Poetry | Feelings |
| Cora Snyder | Grade 8 | Poetry | How to Burn a Bridge |
| Phoebe Son | Senior | Personal Essay/Memoir | Alien |
| Kennedy Young | Freshman | Photography | 50 Shades of Yellow |
Silver Key Awards
| Hanxi Chang | Senior | Art Portfolio | Sports Photography |
| Ashtyn Cole | Senior | Personal Essay/Memoir | Learning to Like This Girl |
| Kendall Ficken | Grade 8 | Drawing and Illustration | Playful Rotations |
| Nathan Haynes | Sophomore | Photography | Gateway |
| Allison Holbrooks | Senior | Mixed Media | Colors of a Hero |
| Taylor Holbrooks | Junior | Photography | David |
| Sophie Howard | Grade 7 | Drawing and Illustration | Future Mob |
| Chloe Jackson | Senior | Personal Essay/Memoir | Wouldn't Trade it For the World |
| Regan Jackson | Senior | Painting | Basquiat |
| Olivia Jones | Grade 8 | Poetry | What Makes a River Run |
| Francesco Pejrone | Senior | Photography | Something Simple |
| Mackenzie Prather | Sophomore | Photography | Worlds Within Worlds |
| Lane Rabon | Grade 8 | Poetry; Short Story | Deeper Shipwrecks; Home |
| Sara Shepherd | Senior | Personal Essay/Memoir | Setting My Soul on Fire |
| Cora Snyder | Grade 8 | Poetry | America |
| Shae Whittle | Freshman | Personal Essay/Memoir | New Girl |
Honorable Mention Awards
| Abigail Atwater | Grade 8 | Flash Fiction | Amelia's Letter |
| Carter Bland | Senior | Personal Essay/Memoir | Halfway Swimmer |
| Nathan Brannon | Junior | Drawing and Illustration | Skeletal Flight |
| Claire Burch | Junior | Drawing and Illustration | Frontline of Peace |
| Hanxi Chang | Senior | Photography | All In |
| Riley Carlton | Senior | Poetry | Lost in the Frost |
| Anna Dunn | Grade 7 | Drawing and Illustration | Ice Palace |
| Evangelia Edwards | Senior | Poetry; Poetry; Flash Fiction; Poetry; Personal Essay/Memoir | Innocence; Transition to Winter; The Figure in the Glass; Childhood; About my Father |
| Jadon Elkins | Senior | Humor | Actual Problems |
| Colin Gallagher | Senior | Film & Animation | Zane Burch: A Craftsman |
| Julia Hannum | Senior | Personal Essay/Memoir | The Choice |
| Katie Hayes | Grade 8 | Personal Essay/Memoir | Narrative |
| Michelle Igbinadolor | Grade 9 | Personal Essay/Memoir | The Mirror |
| Olivia Jackson | Grade 8 | Personal Essay/Memoir | Love Makes a Family |
| Regan Jackson
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Senior | Poetry; Personal Essay/Memoir
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Where I'm From; Forward Thinking
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| Luke Jacobs
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Grade 8 | Short Story | Surviving Loneliness
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| Kayla Knight | Junior | Short Story | Writer in the Dark |
| Nate McGrath | Junior | Short Story | En Reise Hjem (A Journey Home) |
| Ada Sadowski | Grade 8 | Poem | I Want You |
| Nina Somerville | Grade 8 | Personal Essay/Memoir | My American Identity |
| Madison Urban | Senior | Personal Essay/Memoir | Harvard Model Congress |
| Kennedy Young | Freshman | Poem | It |
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| Hanxi Chang - Airborne |
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| Regan Jackson - Basquiat |