Common Wealth Award Writing Contest
Since 2000, more than twenty lucky Delaware high school students have met and talked to the winning world leaders through the Common Wealth Award Writing Contest. Four winners of the writing contest and their parents or guardians are invited each year to the Common Wealth Awards ceremony, where the honorees are recognized for their lifetime achievement. As time allows, students are often able to talk directly with the winners.
Contest winners are publicly acknowledged at the Common Wealth Awards ceremony and receive a framed picture of themselves taken with the honorees. The winners for 2011 were John Fairchild, a senior at Wilmington Friends School; Lisa Jacques, a junior at St. Andrew's School; Faith Lyons, a junior at Tower Hill School; and Brianne Sands, a junior at Cab Calloway School of the Arts.
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