National PTA Announces Reflections Winners
National PTA Announces Reflections Winners:
National PTA recognizes 6 Outstanding Interpretation winners as well as 72 students with Awards of Excellence and 116 students with Awards of Merit across four grade divisions—primary, intermediate, middle/junior, and senior—in six arts categories—dance choreography, film production, literature, musical composition, photography, and visual arts. Winners were chosen from hundreds of thousands of submissions from students across the nation and in European schools serving military families who participated in this year’s program, themed “Diversity Means…” The Outstanding Interpretation, Awards of Excellence and Awards of Merit artwork will be showcased in a virtual PTA Reflections gallery that will be live later this year.
Missouri PTA would like to congratulate the following National PTA Reflections honorees:
Awards of Excellence
Each Award of Excellence recipient receives:
- A cash award
- A silver-plated Reflections medal
- A certificate and letter signed by the National PTA President
- Recognition in the annual PTA Reflections online gallery
(Dance Choreography) Award of Excellence: Emily Downie, “ Diversity in Black and White”, Intermediate, Greenwood Laboratory School PTA, Springfield, MO.
(Musical Composition) Award of Excellence: Sam Garvin “Diversity Means a Caterpillar”, Primary, Rountree Elementary PTA, Springfield, MO.
(Photography) Award of Excellence: Andrew Reardon “Religious Diversity Can Unite”, Middle School, Liberty Middle School PTA, Liberty, MO.
Awards of Merit
Each Award of Merit recipient receives:
- A silver-plated Reflections medal
- A certificate and letter signed by the National PTA president
- Recognition in the annual PTA Reflections online gallery
(Musical Composition) Award of Merit: Daphne Yu “Battle of Nature” High School, Rock Bridge High School PTSA, Columbia, MO.
Each program year, students create works of art inspired by a specific theme. That theme is selected from hundreds of ideas submitted by students to the PTA Reflections Program Theme Search Contest. The theme for the 2012-2013 event will be “The Magic of a Moment”.
Based on feedback from local and state volunteers, National PTA has announced a new streamlined process for submitting Reflections entries. Missouri PTA expects to receive the details of this process in late May and will share this information with our units as soon as possible. Due to the timing of this new information, our Reflections toolkit information may be arriving separate from our annual summer packet mailing to PTA / PTSA leaders.
Our congratulations, again, to these winning entries!
Sincerely,
Donna Petiford
President, Missouri PTA
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Unit/Council Presidents, Legislative Chairs and Missouri PTA Board of Managers-
Missouri PTA is proud and excited to announce two of our resolutions - Distracted Driving and Improved Infrastructure Around Schools - adopted during our 2011 Convention have been approved by the National PTA Board of Directors to be brought forth at the National PTA Convention this June for adoption at the National level. Check out the May issue of CONTACT to find out how these resolutions went from an idea to action. MOPTA Board of Managers, including our student representatives who were the driving force behind the Distracted Driving resolution, will travel to the National Convention in San Jose to present and speak in favor of these resolutions' adoption.
Sincerely,
Dorothy Gardner
Vice President Legislation and Advocacy
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MADD campaign "Power of Parents"
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