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Junior Page Contest Winners 2014

The following ungers won this year’s Central Junior Council Junior Page Contest! CJC announced the winners at AYF Junior Seminar over Memorial Day weekend. These four ungers received a prize and will have their submissions published in the Armenian Weekly and Hairenik newspapers.

U. Gayane Kaligian (Greater Boston “Nejdeh”) — In her very well written article, Gayane describes her experience in 8th grade when she took it upon herself to participate in the school’s National History Day presentations. She chose the Armenian Genocide as a topic so that she would challenge herself to become more knowledgeable about the events leading up to it. She described what methods she used to research her presentation and all the things she learned from doing this research.

U. Alyssa Kanis (Providence “Varantian”) — If you were asked, “Who do you want to be?” how would you answer? This descriptive article tells a story of how a “careless child” became a “knowledge-filled adult” through the experiences of Camp Haiatan, AYF, and by participating in the local Providence Armenian community. Alyssa takes us through the journeys, which have been imprinted into her identity, as we come to find out who she is.

U. Arek Alexanian (Chicago “Ararat”) — Arek tells us about something that would make every Armenian proud. He demonstrates the role of the AYFer at our public schools. He prepared an entire Armenian Genocide presentation with one day’s notice for his 7th grade history class. He explains how he started talking about the Armenian heritage and ended it by tying all genocides together, as a great presenter should.

U. Andrew Devedjian (Chicago “Ararat”) — This short story is fictional; however, it’s based off true events. The year is 1917 and young Hagop is trying to make sense of the events taking place near his Armenian village in the Ottoman Empire. He doesn’t understand why his family used all their savings to send him to Egypt to become a jeweler with his cousin Raffi. You will have to read the article for yourself to find out what happens next. Andrew wrote several great articles; this was just one of them.

Congratulations to our winners! CJC encourages all juniors to submit articles to the Armenian Weekly throughout the year.