Below: Massachusetts State Senator Marc R. Pacheco, Chair of the Special Senate Committee on Climate Change, addressing the awards reception attendees at Genzyme Center. 






 

Final Creative Writing (Near-Future Fiction) Awards for 2007

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First Place Award for Creative Writing:

Congratulations to Alison Crandall , a sophomore from Lee Middle and High School, Lee, MA, for "Summer Rain", a wonderfully written story of pre-adulthood, in a world that has found solutions, but that also has to deal with the wreckage created by the past dependency on oil by many world economies.

 

 

Second Place (tie):

Congratulations to Emily Allen (not shown) a junior at Arlington High School for "The Broken Man" about a lobbyist who gradually is overwhelmed by the fear of change that confronts him in his work. 

And Congratulations to Katherine Kinkel (right), a sophomore at Wellesley High School for "The Sovereignty of the Faithful", a story about an isolated community in a flooded Manhattan, living under a corrupt government that has come to power in the wake of the resulting confusion and chaos.  

Third Place:

Congratulations to Julie Cain-Mailly, a sophomore at Marlborough High School for "The Diary of Jane".  Jane's diary begins like that of any typical self-absorbed teen, who must face the devastation in her world resulting from her (and others') earlier indifference. 

Photo Above: Representative J. James Marzilla, Jr. at the 2006 Reception. 

Remaining Fourth Place Winners (in order by last name):

Congratulations to:

Amanda Bennett , a freshman at The Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA for "Ethanol with a Side of Trouble, Please".

Amanda Cain-Mailly, also a sophomore at Marlborough High School for "Going Backwards".

Colleen M. Ottomano, a junior at Hopkinton High School for "Tennis Matches and Space Bugs".

Megan Roy, a sophomore at Shrewsbury High School, for "The Panic of 2020".