Urbana School District celebrated its Young Author’s contest winners with author Alice McGinty.
The Young Authors program encourages students to become involved in the authoring process, using their skills to create an original written work.
Each overall building winner, along with a few other students at each school were chosen to attend the District celebration on April 22.
Dr. Martin Luther King School
- Building Coordinators: Tori Harvey & Yolande Cooke
- Building Winner: Timothy Adeyemo
- Mahrokh Karami
- Micah Nichols
- Julian Rogers
- Aleksandre Stankevitch
Dr. Preston Williams Elementary School
- Building Coordinator: Heather Murphy
- Building Winner: Emmanuel Kori
- Faith Ellstone-Hamilton
- Izzy Moore
- Sydney Shaw
- Jade Pineda Walker
Leal
- Building Coordinator: Kate McLean
- Building Winner: Nora Yako
- Liam Ruud
- Eunice Lee
- Yourhighness Redmon-Zander
- Coraline Ruud
- Willow McDaniel
- Ridley McKenna
Thomas Paine
- Building Coordinators: Brianna Morgan & Jackie Martin
- Building Winner: Lexton Borich
- Baseera Bakht
- Coraline Hauser
- Liam Dorsey Tate
- Leah Wang
Yankee Ridge Multilingual School
- Building Coordinators: Maggie Pate & Gustavo Jacabo Velazquez
- Building Winner: Hazel Fellers
- Leilani Aguilar Carmona
- Autumn Elliott
- Jacob Elliott
- Kendra Guevara
- Panduleni Kandume
- Asher Rodrigues
- William Street
Urbana Middle School
- Building Coordinators: Alyssa Ginzburg & Krista Ruud
- Building Winner: Gracelynn Lusk
- Riley Bost Saniyah Murray William Whobrey
- Ahsiar Caston Violet Robberts-Mosser Mustafa Zeeshan
- Declan Downing Bernice Orok Kai Zeman
- Evie Franklin Veronica Vargas
- Vala Heaton Lucy Volk
- Rihanna McCarthy Lucious Walker
Urbana High School
- Building Coordinators: Brandon Birkhead & Missy Burke-Marquart
- Building Winner: Charlie Mank
- Isabel Valencia Ramirez
- Mayra Valencia Ramirez