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Photography

Intermediate – Grades 3 – 5

1st place 

“Reaching for Your Light” 

B/w photograph, 8×11”

Student: Máire Mansell

Lafayette ES

2nd place 

“Love in Sacramento”

Color photo, 8×11”

Student: Mayen Thorsen

Lafayette ES 

3rd place 

“Art Teacher” 

Photo, 8×11.

Student: Soleil Wang 

CIS DeAvila ES 

Visual Arts

Primary – Kindergarten – 2

1st place

“Reaching the Sun”

Color pencil on paper, 8×11”

Student: Alexandra Hoyle 

Lafayette ES 

2nd place 

“Science”

Color pencil w/ paper collage, 8×11”

Student: Maja Robinson

Lafayette ES 

3rd place 

“Rainbow Colors” 

Oil pastel painting, 9×12”

Student: Mia DeSanto

CIS DeAvila 

Honorable Mention 

“The Robot”

Book with pencil drawings, 8×11”

Student: David Cuperstein 

Lafayette ES 

Honorable Mention

“Self portrait”

Colored pencil on paper, 8×11”

Student: Hampton Yeh 

Robert L Stevenson ES 

Honorable Mention

“Hannah as Frida Kahlo” 

Colored pencil on paper, 8×11”

Student: Eliza Dang

Robert L Stevenson ES

Intermediate – Grades 3 – 5

1st place “Reaching Mars”Pastel on paper, 11×14”Student: Elliot ZapolCIS DeAvila ES 
2nd place “The Heron”Pastel on paper, 8×11”
Student: Deniz Smith Lafayette ES 
3rd place “Hands for Peace”Watercolor/oil pastel, 8×11”Student: Mayen Thorsen 
Lafayette ES 
Honorable Mention“Brett as Vincent Van Gogh”Colored pencil on paper, 8×11”. Student: Melanie Chiu 
Robert L Stevenson ES 
Honorable Mention“Trisha as The Girl with the Pearl Earring”Colored pencil on paper, 8×11”.Student: Cassandra ChanRobert L Stevenson ES 
Honorable Mention“Christian as Pablo Picasso”Colored pencil on paper, 8×11”Student: Maria TéRobert L Stevenson ES 

High School

1st Place

“Parrot Trafficking” 

Pencil on paper, 18 x 24”

Student: Yameng Huang 

Wallenberg HS

2nd place 

“Within Reach” 

Ink, colored pencil, “18×24”

Student: Aleks Jones 

Wallenberg HS

3rd place 

“Within Reach: A World Connected” 

Student: Jonathan Chan 

Lincoln HS



Music Composition

Intermediate – Grades 3 – 5

1st place“DREAM”Composition for PianoStudent: Mayen ThorsenLafayette ES 


Dance/Choreography

Intermediate – Grades 3 – 5

1st place
“Reaching High”
Original dance choreography.Student: Chiara DiGiorgio
Lafayette ES


Literature

Intermediate – Grades 3 – 5

 1st place “The Lost That I Could Reach”
PoemStudent: Kaila BohmCIS DeAvila ES

2nd place“The Sky is Within Reach”
PoemStudent: Skylla McArthur Lafayette ES