A Sylvan Grove student is among those honored for their essays about "My City, My Home."
On Friday, the League of Kansas Municipalities welcomed approximately 80 mayors and local elected officials to Lawrence for the league’s Leadership Summit and Kansas Mayors Conference. The league also used this event as an opportunity to recognize six seventh graders for their participation in the league’s annual essay contest.
This year, hundreds of seventh graders submitted their thoughts for the league's annual “My City, My Home” essay contest, which asked students what they loved about their community.
This year, the League recognized Ella Prosser, a seventh-grade student at Quinter Jr/Sr. High School, as the statewide winner. Ella’s essay represented the northwest region of Kansas. The contest recognizes five regional winners along with one overall statewide winner.
Ella, an aspiring author, wrote her essay about her hometown of Quinter and why her home is special to her. She wrote her essay using Quinter as a metaphor for a book.
“My hometown of Quinter is a book,” she wrote. “With the friendly, family environment as the cover, the schools and the people as the pages, and the binding bringing the community all together, Quinter is a place I am proud to call home.”
Watch Ella read her essay:
The League presented awards to six regional students who were named regional winners in the contest.
