{"id":408986,"date":"2024-05-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=408986"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"2024-Ninth-Circuit-Civics-Contest-finalists-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/2024-Ninth-Circuit-Civics-Contest-finalists-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Ninth Circuit Civics Contest finalists announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO\u2014<\/strong>Federal judicial districts throughout the Ninth Circuit have selected their local civics contest winners who will advance as finalists in the preliminary round of the 2024 Ninth Circuit Civics Contest. Forty-two essays and 31 videos are up for consideration to be the next top winners at the circuit level contest. The circuit received 737 essays and 88 video entries.<\/p>\n

\u201c70 Years Later\u2014The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education\u201d was the theme of the civics contest. In addressing the theme, students were asked to discuss the impact they think Brown has had and why. The contest was open to students in grades 9-12 in public, private, parochial and charter schools, and home-schooled students of equivalent grade status, in Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington state, the U.S. Territory of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.<\/p>\n

Judging panel members are now reviewing and scoring the essays and videos that advanced to the preliminary round of the Ninth Circuit civics contest. The Ninth Circuit Public Information and Community Outreach (PICO) Committee, composed of judges, court executives and attorneys, will determine the final winners of the contest. PICO is responsible for determining the theme and organizing the contest with support from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the 15 federal judicial districts that comprise the Ninth Circuit.<\/p>\n

First-place winners at the circuit level will be invited to attend the 2024 Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, and a total of $11,400 in cash prizes will be awarded to the top three essay and video winners. First place cash prize in each category is $3,000, second place is $1,700 and third place is $1,000. If the winners of the video portion of the contest are part of a team, then they will split the total cash prize.<\/p>\n

Circuit winners will be announced on the contest website https:\/\/www.ca9.uscourts.gov\/civicscontest\/<\/a> in June. District winners are listed in the following pages.<\/p>\n

Below are the names of students from each district who are advancing to the next round of the competition at the circuit level.<\/p>\n

District of Alaska<\/p>\n

Essay Winner: First place ($1,000) \u2013 Manning Zhang, West Anchorage High School, Anchorage.<\/p>\n

District of Arizona<\/p>\n

Essay Winners: First place ($1,500) \u2013 Akshita Khanna, BASIS Phoenix, Phoenix; Second place ($750) \u2013 Prisha Yelamanchili, BASIS Chandler, Chandler; and Third place ($500) \u2013 Chloe Moore, Desert Vista High School, Phoenix.<\/p>\n

Video Winners: First place (Total of $1,500) \u2013 the team of Aayush Shah, Mihir Sahani and Vivan Patel, BASIS Chandler; Second place ($750) \u2013 Anthony Baltazar, Desert Ridge High School, Mesa; and Third place ($500) \u2013 Christine Vuong, Mesa High School, Mesa.<\/p>\n

Central District of California<\/p>\n

Essay Winners: First place ($1,000) \u2013 Justina Liu, Arcadia High School, Arcadia; Second place ($750) \u2013 Michael Isayan, North Hollywood High School, North Hollywood; and Third place ($500) \u2013 Aston Kwon, Northwood High School, Irvine.<\/p>\n

Video Winners: First place ($1,000) \u2013 Katelyn Cheng, Westlake Village; Second place (Total of $750) \u2013 the team of Chidike Nwankwo, Jayden Mendoza and Chidinma Ojinmah, Norte Vista High School, Riverside; and (Total of $500) \u2013 the team of Gael Garivay, Roberto Vega- Alarcon and Antoine Cueller-Morgan, Azusa High School, Azusa.<\/p>\n

The Central District is also inviting their first-place winners and their parent\/guardian to attend the 2024 Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference.<\/p>\n

Eastern District of California<\/p>\n

Essay Winners: First place \u2013 Joshua Yang, El Camino Fundamental High School, Sacramento; Second place \u2013 Michael Reynoso, El Camino Fundamental High School; and Third place \u2013 Brysan Polhemus, El Camino Fundamental High School.<\/p>\n

Northern District of California<\/p>\n

Essay Winners: First place ($2,000) \u2013 Jia Aggarwal, Dublin High School, Dublin; Second place ($1,500) \u2013 Shaan Singh, San Leandro High School, San Leandro; and Third place ($1,000) \u2013 Karthik Subramanian, American High School, Fremont.<\/p>\n

Video Winners: First place ($2,000) \u2013 Julia Karsner, Castilleja School, Palo Alto; and Second place (Total of $1,500) \u2013 the team of Isabel Sonneborn, Marguerite Walden-Kaufman and Hadassah Krieger, San Rafael High School, San Rafael.<\/p>\n

Southern District of California<\/p>\n

Essay Winners: First place ($1,000) \u2013 Raine Wen, Mt. Carmel High School, San Diego; Second place ($500) \u2013 Natalie Amir-Lobel, La Jolla Country Day School, San Diego; and Third place ($250) \u2013 Daniel Palacios, Mt. Carmel High School.<\/p>\n

Video Winners: First place ($1,000) \u2013 Eva Tieu, Hoover High School, San Diego; Second place (Total of $500) \u2013 the team of Tyler Maula and Diego Contreras, Bonita Vista High School, Chula Vista; and Third place ($250) \u2013 Marcos Hernandez, Hoover High School, San Diego.<\/p>\n

District of Guam<\/p>\n

Essay Winners: First place ($300) \u2013 Vance Meno, Father Duenas Memorial School, Chalan-Pago-Ordot; Second place ($200) \u2013 Mariana Castro, St. John\u2019s School, Upper Tumon; and Third place ($100) \u2013 Angel Samaniego, Simon Sanchez High School, Tamuning.<\/p>\n

Video Winners: First place (Total of $300) \u2013 the team of Samantha Pascua and Arianna Cadiz, Simon Sanchez High School, Yigo.<\/p>\n

District of Hawaii<\/p>\n

Essay Winners: First place ($1,500) \u2013 Peter Vahsen, Kaiser High School, Honolulu; Second place ($750) \u2013 Tiffany Ishida, \u2018Iolani School, Honolulu; and Third place ($500) \u2013 Colbie Bell, \u2018Iolani School.<\/p>\n

Video Winners: First place ($1,500) \u2013 Teah Simon, \u2018Iolani School, Honolulu; and Second place (Total of $750) \u2013 the team of Zuri Pagel, Tezeru Kapfer and Soraya Nasseghandi, Kaiser High School.<\/p>\n

District of Idaho<\/p>\n

Essay Winners: First place ($1,000) \u2013 Max Pieper, Second place ($500) \u2013 Addie Branen and Third place ($250) \u2013 Dylan Taylor. All students are from Moscow High School in Moscow.<\/p>\n

Video Winners: First place ($1,000) \u2013 Jacob Nunez, Post Falls High School, Post Falls; Second place ($500) \u2013 Kate Raley, Boise High School, Boise; and Third place ($250) \u2013 Kira Sherman, Post Falls High School.<\/p>\n

District of Montana<\/p>\n

Essay Winners: First place ($2,000) \u2013 Skylar Pinsondumm, Sentinel High School, Missoula; Second place ($1,000) \u2013 Emma Cashell, Corvallis High School, Corvallis; and Third place ($500) \u2013 Tayler Wolf, Dawson County High School, Glendive.<\/p>\n

Video Winners: First place ($2,250) \u2013 Trinity Nicholson, Foothills Community Christian School, Great Falls; and Second place ($1,250) \u2013 Kimber Koteskey, Foothills Community Christian School. The $500 prize for a third-place winner was equally distributed to the first- and second-place winners since the district did not have a third-place winner.<\/p>\n

District of Nevada<\/p>\n

Essay Winners: First place ($1,500) \u2013 Auri Fernandez, Incline High School, Incline Village; Second place ($850) \u2013 Jamie Arevalo, West Career and Technical Academy, Las Vegas; and Third place ($500) \u2013 Aeron Pearson, Southwest Career and Technical Academy, Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Video Winners: First place (Total of $1,500) \u2013 the team of Vanessa Lei, Hannah Vuong and Joan Li, West Career and Technical Academy; Second place ($850) \u2013 Grace Li, West Career and Technical Academy; and Third place ($500) \u2013 Evelyn Wu, Southwest Career and Technical Academy.<\/p>\n

District of Northern Mariana Islands<\/p>\n

Essay Winners: First place ($200) \u2013 Irene Park, Saipan International School, Chalan Kanoa; Second place ($150) \u2013 Gwanpil Son, Marianas High School, Susupe; and Third place ($100) \u2013 Trixia Jhoanne Singca, Marianas High School.<\/p>\n

Video Winners: First place (Total of $200) \u2013 the team of Misha Kim and Ayung Lee; Second place (Total of $150) \u2013 the team of Jeongbin Park, Keylie Claveria and Zi Hao Zhou; and Third place (Total of $100) \u2013 Eva Lizunova, Linda Li and Nikki Qiu. All students are from Saipan International School.<\/p>\n

District of Oregon<\/p>\n

Local winners in the District of Oregon will receive cash prizes to be determined by the district.<\/p>\n

Essay Winners: First place \u2013 Colin Williams, Charles A. Sprague High School, Salem; Second place \u2013 Dorothy Cui, Lincoln High School, Portland; and Third place \u2013 Matthew Meyers, Charles A. Sprague High School.<\/p>\n

Video Winners: First place \u2013 the team of Colin Williams and Matthew Meyers, Charles A. Sprague High School; Second place \u2013 Ruby Kara, Milwaukie Academy of the Arts, Milwaukie; and Third place \u2013 Asher Lee, Sabin-Schellenberg Professional Technical Center, Milwaukie.<\/p>\n

Eastern District of Washington<\/p>\n

The Eastern District of Washington selected a total of three winners, in essay and video categories combined.<\/p>\n

Winners: First place (Total of $1,000) \u2013 the team of Luke Blue and Eleanor Weitz for their video entry, Mt. Spokane High School, Mead; Second place ($500) \u2013 Autumn Kern, essay entry, Mt. Spokane High School; and Third place ($250) \u2013 Klara Hulick, essay entry, Hanford High School, Richland.<\/p>\n

Western District of Washington<\/p>\n

Essay Winners: First place ($1,000) \u2013 Addison Wooster, Kingston High School, Kingston; Second place ($750) \u2013 Havah Alcorn, Gibson EK High School, Issaquah; and Third place ($500) \u2013 Isaiah Sinclaire, Homeschool, Everett.<\/p>\n

Video Winner: First place ($1,000) \u2013 Shreya Damodaran, Lake Washington High School, Kirkland. (PR)<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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All awardees with U.S. District of the NMI Chief Judge Ramona Manglona and Magistrate Judge Heather Kennedy.<\/p>\n

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Video category winners, from left, U.S. District of the NMI Chief Judge Ramona Chief, third place the team of Eva Lizunova, Linda Li, and Nikki Qiu from Saipan International School, first place team of Misha Kim from Saipan International School and Ayung Lee from Mt. Carmel School, second place team of Jeongbin Park, Keylie Claveria, and Zi Hao Zhou from Saipan International School, and Magistrate Judge Heather Kennedy.<\/p>\n

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From left, U.S. District of the NMI Chief Judge Ramona Manglona, third place essay winner Trixia Jhoanne Singca from Marianas High School, Top 10 awardees Jia Ross Nicdao from Marianas High School, Zi Ting Wu, Joshua Yoo, Dong Hyun Lee from Saipan International School, first place essay winner Irene Park from Saipan International School, second place essay winner Gwanpil Son from Marianas High School, Top 10 awardee Jhaylin Cruz from Marianas High School, and Magistrate JudgeHeather Kennedy. (Not in photo are Top 10 awardees Shuang Zhao from Marianas High School and Moshe Sikkel from Saipan International School).<\/p>\n

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