Two students from the Hall County School District were recently named Pioneer RESA regional winners in the 2020 Young Georgia Authors competition.
The Young Georgia Authors Writing Competition, sponsored by the Georgia Council of Teachers of English, is open to students in grades kindergarten through 12. Student submissions can be short stories, poetry, essays, journals, personal narratives, reports or other original student writing, and they are judged on the four domains in the Georgia Performance Standards: ideas, organization, cohesiveness and language.
- North Hall Middle School 7th grader Athena Vachtsevanos is a 2020 Young Georgia Authors Regional-Level Winner for her story “Angel Souls.”
- West Hall High School Senior Emma O’Neal is a 2020 Young Georgia Authors Regional-Level Winner for her essay “Resilience."
Each student won the HCSD grade-level district competition and then competed with grade-level winners from the 15 school systems in the Pioneer RESA Region: Banks, Dawson, Fannin, Franklin, Gainesville City, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Lumpkin, Mountain Education Charter High School, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union and White County.
Vachtsevanos and O'Neal are are now entered in the statewide competition. The judging has been postponed until the first week of June, and winners will be posted on the Georgia Department of Education website.
