Announcing the Awards for the Vashon Heritage Museum’s 2020 History Project Contest
Heritage Museum History Contest Winners of 2020, we celebrate all of you and your wonderful projects. In the words of contestant Henry Jonasson, “What I learned was it was hard—and worth it.”
Submission by Heny Jonasson
We also celebrate your parents. You students stand alone in your abilities, but behind every good student is a wealth of support and encouragement on the home front. And we celebrate your teachers who have cultivated your academic skills as well as your imaginations.
We want to thank our sponsors whose generosity made it possible for us to offer this contest to our community’s students: Puget Sound Cooperative Credit Union and Thriftway. If you patronize these businesses, please add your thanks to ours. We also thank 4Culture for its continued support of the Museum.
Submission by Grant Fitterer
Honorees: in only a few years you will be graduating from high school. Seniors who want to go on to college apply for local scholarships by creating a notebook about themselves. Your prize is worthy of including in your resumé in that notebook. The Museum is one of the groups offering a scholarship.
This is the 7th year for our contest, and we are thrilled to have such fine entries. Each year is different, and so far there has not been exactly the same topic twice. Instead, there is always variety, and we see creativity and hard work. We know it is hard, because each entrant gets to pick a topic and then to decide how to present it—and being told you can do anything you want does not make your choices easy.
Submission by Charles Irish
You students are successful because you did make these hard choices. You did research and wrote about your findings. In addition, you had focus, the capacity for concentration, the ability to follow through on your ideas—plus, again, imagination and creativity. We honor all of you for these many successes. You are all winners!
Students may pick up their prizes between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m. Saturday, May 9, or Sunday, May 10 at the Vashon Heritage Museum.
Submission by Matilda Strain
Thank you to our Sponsors
