Seventh Competition (2011-2012)
Winners High School Division Best Essay Award
1st Place: Yumiko Siev (Valley Stream Central High School)
2nd Place: Mizuho Yoshimune (Bronx High School of Science)
3rd Place: Duke Atalay (Ward Melville High School)
College Division Best Essay Award
Special Award A: Daniel Xu (Princeton University)
Special Award B: Shariful Syed (Stony Brook University)
Consul General of Japan Special Award
Yumiko Siev (Valley Stream Central High School)
Honorable Mention
Emma Berniczky (Stuyvesant High School)
Pauline Ceraulo (Trinity School)
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Jake Reiben (Brooklyn Friends School)
Natsuko Sato (Arlington High School)
Kaitlyn Shin (Jericho High School)
Kelsey Weymouth-Little (Ward Melville High School)
Finalists Jasmine Jang (Syosset High School)
Catherine Koumas (Huntington High School)
Steven Menelly (Garden City High School)
HusnainKaukab Mushtaq (Oceanside High School)
Semifinalists Mitchell Abrams (Fiorello H. LaGuardia High school of Music & Art and Performing Arts)
Begina Armstrong (A. Philip Randolph Campus High School)
Rohit Bachani (W. T. Clarke High School)
Monisha Dadlani (Fiorello H. LaGuardia High school of Music & Art and Performing Arts)
Justin Daane Engelsher (Huntington High School)
Bonnie Kaprat (Wellington C. Mepham High School)
Emily Rose Kass (Smithtown High School West)
Doyun Kim (Townsend Harris High School)
Julia Y. Lee (Trinity School)
Brian Murphy (SewanhakaHigh School)
Gianna Ortiz (The Mary Louis Academy)
Aya Terki (East Meadow High School)
Ashley Wong (Syosset Senior High School)
Amanda Yan (Townsend Harris High School)
Marissa Young (Hebrew Academy of Nassau County)
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