Every year, students from across the country submit work to the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards, the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious recognition for creative teens. In March, over 50 Paideia students received regional awards in art and writing. Students who received the highest honor, a gold key, were judged on a national level. Six Paideia students won national Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards.
Congratulations to Isha Parashar ’25 (painting), Elyssa Golivesky-Bloom ’25 (jewelry) and Andes Finch ’26 (photography) who were each awarded national gold keys. Elyssa received the only national medal for jewelry design in the state.
Congratulations to Niko Carpenter ’24 and Madeline Reynolds ’24 who were awarded national silver keys for photography.
Congratulations to Madeleine Moon-Chun ’26 who was awarded a national silver key for poetry.
More than 100,000 students entered nearly 340,000 original works of art and writing to the 2024 Scholastic Awards. The work was selected by some of the foremost leaders in the visual and literary arts for excellence in originality, skill, and the emergence of a personal voice or vision. Fewer than 2,500 works received a national medal, which places these students within the top 8% of all submissions! All gold keys will be exhibited either digitally or as an original piece in the Metropolitan Museum of Art this fall.