Winners announced for 2005 Breaking Barriers: In Sports.
POETRY: Write a poem that explores one or more of Jackie Robinson’s Nine Values. Each poem should be typewritten, double-spaced and limited to one page. To enter, contestants must submit an original piece of art, an essay or poem by 5:00 p.m. Sunday, March 1, 2015. An official entry form must accompany each submission.
Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Trust today announced the winners of the 2005 Breaking Barriers: In Sports, In Life National Student Essay Contest. Breaking Barriers is a multi-curricular character education program based on the values demonstrated by the late Jackie Robinson, who broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947.
Applications are now open for the 2020 AFSA High School Essay Contest! Apply at: afsascholarships.communityforce.com. All applications due by 11:59 p.m. EDT April 6, 2020. 2020 Essay Contest Topic. In a 1,000-1,250 word essay identify how members of the Foreign Service work with other civilian parts of the U.S. Government to promote peace.
Jackie Robinson alive, the Detroit Tigers invite Michigan schools to participate in the 19 th Annual Jackie Robinson Art, Essay and Poetry Contest. The contest is open to middle and high school students from the greater Detroit region.
CONTEST IS OPEN TO MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. ART Students will create an artistic expression that captures the spirit of one or more of Jackie Robinson’s nine values of success. Artwork can be a painting, drawing, or other rendering no larger than 22” X 28”.
CONTEST IS OPEN TO MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. ESSAY Write an essay that chronicles the personal struggles of Jackie Robinson. Essays should be typewritten, double-spaced and limited to one page. POETRY Write a poem that explores one or more of Jackie Robinson’s nine values for success. Poems should be typewritten, double-spaced and.
The Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization has completed judging for this year’s Paul Engle Day: Glory of the Senses Essay Contest, and will award scholarships to nine high school sophomores from across Iowa. The winning essay was “ Adrift,” by Jackie Olberding, a student at Beckman Catholic High School in Dyersville.
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, to break the baseball color barrier, changing the landscape of the game and civil rights in the United States. The Breaking Barriers educational program teaches students the values and characteristics that Jackie Robinson exhibited in his life, and how to use them to face and overcome barriers in their own lives.
The Breaking Barriers educational program and essay contest was developed by Major League Baseball, Scholastic and Sharon Robinson — daughter of Jackie Robinson, MLB Educational Programming Consultant, author, and founder of the Breaking Barriers program.
Oklahoma high school students, grades nine-12, are invited to enter the 2018 Zach Taylor First Amendment Essay Contest to win prizes. Three students will win cash prizes, courtesy of Freedom of.
Aeliya with her winning essay. First Colony Middle School student, Aeliya Arif, earned second place in the national “Breaking Barriers” essay contest, sponsored by Scholastic and Major League Baseball. The competition honors Jackie Robinson who broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in May of 1947.
Jackie Roosevelt Robinson, the grandson of a slave, was born in a cabin in Cairo, Georgia, on January 31, 1919. He had four siblings: Edgar, Frank, Mack, and Willa Mae. The Robinsons sharecropped for a white family called the Sassers. They grew crops for Mr. Sasser, and in exchange got a place to live and chits.
Jackie Robinson attended Washington Middle School (then Washington Junior High School) as a young man. The school is participating in a special Breaking Barriers essay contest where one student will be presented with a special gift by Sharon. The Breaking Barriers program features an essay contest that recognizes students for their efforts to.
