Contact: Leah Barbour
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STARKVILLE, Miss.--Mississippi State students from four Mississippi cities and one in Tennessee are winners of the 2015 Maroon Edition Essay Contest.
The competition is sponsored by Maroon & Write, the university's quality enhancement program to boost student writing skills. First-place winners receive $500, while second- and third-place awardees won $300 and $100, respectively.
Essay subjects come from Maroon Edition, annual common reading experience for incoming freshmen. Sophomores, juniors, seniors, graduate students, and faculty and staff also are encouraged to join reading the selected book.
"The Invisible Girls" by Sarah Thebarge was both this year's ME selection and essay contest topic.
Freshman winners included:
--First, "Beginnings" by Sabrina E. Moore of Starkville, a biological engineering and chemistry double-major and the daughter of Robert and Melissa Moore.
--Second, "Every Ending is a New Beginning" by Kenyata S. Davis of Kosciusko, a liberal arts major and the daughter of Doris F. Davis.
--Third, "Out of the Mouths of Babes" by Kelsey E. Green, also of Starkville, a liberal arts major and the daughter of William Henry and Debra Green.
Upperclass winners included:
--First, "Seeing the Invisible" by senior Anna M. Warren of Collierville, Tennessee, an educational psychology major and the daughter of Lance and Helen Warren.
--Second, "When Serving Serves Us" by sophomore Anja C. Scheib of Canton, a business administration major and the daughter of Shane and Cecilia Scheib.
--Third, "Service--The Ultimate Healer" by junior Taylor Watson of Clinton, a human sciences/human development and family studies major and the daughter of Rayburn and Shauna Peacock.
For more about the Maroon & Write program, visit www.qep.msstate.edu; about Maroon Edition, www.maroonedition.msstate.edu.
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