Patriot’s Pen Winners 2020
The Tellico Village VFW Post is pleased to announce our Patriot’s Pen essay contest winners for 2020-2021. Contestants were required to write a 300-400 word essay on this year’s theme, “What is Patriotism to me?”.
This year 120 7th and 8th grade students from Lenoir City Middle School entered essays in our contest competing for a National VFW Grand Prize of $5000 and a total of more than $1,400,000 in State and National awards.
This year’s top 3 winners from Post 12135 were Abigail Poulsen (7thGrade Gold Medal), Andrew Meyers (8th Grade Silver Medal) and Nolan Burke (7th Grade Bronze Medal. All 3 won cash prizes and were advanced to the District Level competition.
Five more post finalists (Emily Dodd, Mahayla Scarbro, Kayla Ledford, Jerica McNabb and Gabriel Clift) were also advanced to the District competition.
The 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr. VFW Post 12135 is based in Tellico Village and supports Patriotic Education through our annual: ”Teacher of the Year”. “Voice of Democracy”, and “Patriot’s Pen competitions”.
If you would like to know more about these programs, we can be reached via our website at TellicoVillageVFWPost.org or via phone or text to our message line at 865-408-8061.
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