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Americanism Essay Contest For Grades 7–12

FRA sponsors an annual essay contest to promote the spirit of Americanism and patriotism among our country’s youth. FRA's Americanism Essay Contest is open to all students, grades 7 through 12, including those who are home schooled.  Students are invited to submit a 350-word essay through an FRA member or local FRA branch before the December 1st deadline .  Local winners are forwarded for competition at the regional level and regional winners compete for national prizes.   The grand national winner receives $1,500.  Other winners receive $1,000 for first place, $750 for second place, and $500 for third place.  Each national winner will receive an attractive plaque citing his/her achievement, and every entrant judged at the national level receives a certificate of recognition. Prizes may be awarded to students winning at local and regional levels of competition.

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Download the flyer from the link below (you can fill out the contact information on your computer before you print it!) and post it proudly wherever appropriate--high schools, on-base education offices, commissaries, exchanges, on-base community centers, etc.--to get the word out (you may need permission to post in some locations).

Essay Contest Poster Essay Cover Sheet Essay Rules Congratulations to the 2022–2023 FRA Americanism Essay Contest Winners!

OVERALL WINNER : Molly Neal, Branch 294, South East Region

Grade 7 Winners 1 st place: Elizabeth Schlatter       Branch 124, Northeast New England Region   7th-Grade_1st_Place_Elizabeth Schlatter.pdf 2 nd place: Benjamin Wu               Branch 104, Northwest Region 3 rd place: Genevieve Miranda      Branch 070, Southwest Region

Grade 8 Winners 1st Place: Brynn Gullin                Branch 146, Northeast New England Region   8th-Grade_1st_Place_Brynn Gillin.pdf 2nd Place:  Katie Labao               Branch 302, Southwest  Region  3rd Place: Jalen Meads               Branch 293, East Coast Region Grade 9 Winners 1st Place:  Molly Neal                   Branch 294, Southeast  Region Molly Neal - 9th Grade - 1st Place.pdf 2nd Place: Annabel Marshall       Branch 24, East Coast Region  3rd Place: Lilly Anna Flygare       Branch 251, South Central Region Grade 10 Winners 1st Place: Anna Dollar                 Branch 34, Southeast Region  10th-Grade_1st_Place_Anna Dollar.pdf 2nd Place: Sophene Avedissian  Branch 302, Southwest Region  3rd Place: Justin Glasow             Branch 208, East Coast Region Grade 11 Winners 1st Place: Ariana Perez               Branch 302, Southwest Region 11th-Grade_1st_Place_Ariana Perez.pdf 2nd Place: Erin Stenros               Branch 214, Northeast New England Region  3 rd Place: Bayleigh Guidry          Branch 251, South Central Region

Grade 12 Winners 1st Place: Morgen Davis              Branch 185, West Coast Region 12th-Grade_1st_Place_Morgan Davis.pdf 2nd Place: Charlotte Wallace      Branch 055, Northwest Region  3rd Place: Caleb Gargus             Branch 105, North Central Region

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What is the AMVETS Americanism Program?

The AMVETS Americanism Program is a patriotic program the organization offers schools and youth organizations as a resource for teaching children in kindergarten through 12th grade about their American heritage, civics and citizenship. The program includes flag drawing, poster and essay contests that are grade specific and age appropriate.

Who is eligible? All school age children, K-12. They may attend public, private, parochial schools or may be home schooled. Participants may also come through any youth group such as Scouting or from Church Sunday schools. Students in kindergarten–1st grade can enter the Flag Drawing contest. Students in 2nd–5th grades can enter the Poster contest. Students in 6th–12th grades can enter the Essay Writing contest

How does a child or young adult participate? Teachers or youth group leaders hopefully will take the initiative to involve their students. The program addresses learning standards in civics and presents excellent topics for writing and art assignments, which teachers can incorporate into their classes.Teachers may also contact a local AMVETS post or department to invite veterans to visit their classes. Students whose teachers or schools are not participating in the program can still enter the contest specific to their grade as a take-home or after-school project. Parents may contact a local AMVETS post or department, on behalf of their children, to submit entries or contact the AMVETS National Programs Department at 301-683-4031.

How do I enter? Entry forms (PDF files) with contest rules, including t he “themes” can be downloaded by clicking on the following link: Americanism Contest Packet  – PDF file (1.23 MB)

Future Themes:

2023-2024: “Why is it Important to Vote?” 

2023 Winners  K-12th :

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Kindergarten

1st place- Avacyn Kuehl   WI  45

2nd place- Jonathan Simmon  ID 01

1st place- Kimber Ware   WA 01

2nd place- Murdoch Klinedinst   PA 274

1st place- Elizabeth Taylor   Dept of TN

2nd place- Ruby Stroh           ND 20

1st place- Brileigh Wolff            ND 20

2nd place- Tymofii Haikevych   MA 12

1st place- Blake Hoffman   PA 274

2nd place- Julia Stauss        NE 15

1st place- Elizabeth Behm     MI 23

2nd place- Gavin M. Gehres  OH 1991

1st place – Aries Vanover       CA 1996

2nd place – Madison Hoyle    NE 15

7th Grade  

1st place – Ellie Altringer  ND 20

2nd place – Benjamin Wu   Dept. of  WA

1st place- Issaron Lewis-Hunt  NE 4

2nd place- Elyse Day   OH 9

1st place- Kendra Pritzl   WI 50

2nd place-  Alexandria Constance Helbing    PA  189

1st  place- Eric Lundy      IL  268

2nd place- Danni Diamond    WI   50

1st place     Ashley Fundersol     TN 75

2nd place    Hunter Griffith         ND 20

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Americanism Essay Contest For Grades 7–12 ​ FRA sponsors an annual essay contest to promote the spirit of Americanism and Patriotism among our country’s youth. FRA's Americanism Essay Contest is open to all students, grades 7 through 12, including those who are home schooled.  Students are invited to submit a 350-word essay through an FRA member or local FRA branch before the December 1st deadline.  Local winners are forwarded for competition at the regional level and regional winners compete for national prizes.   ​ The grand national winner will receive $1,500, with additional prizes for the top three essays in each grade category ($1,000 for first place, $750 for second place, and $500 for third place).  Each national winner will receive an attractive plaque citing his/her achievement, and every entrant judged at the national level receives a certificate of recognition. Additional prizes may be awarded to students winning at local and regional levels of competition.

12th Grade Ms. Diya Jha 1st Place Branch

 ​2nd Place East Coast Region 

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Cahaba Valley Elks Lodge 1738

Americanism Essay Contest

Cahaba Valley Elks Lodge No 1738 recognizes outstanding Americanism essay writing done by local 5th, 6th and 7th grade students. The 2023 theme was “What is Your Amercan Dream?” Pelham Park Middle School’s Coach Wheeler’s 7th grade student, Jaaziel Alvarez , won first place at the state level of the competition and will be participating in the national level of the Elks Grand Lodge competition.

Pictured from left to right: Coach Wheeler, Jaaziel Alvarez, CVEL Loyal Knight Greg Ponder. (June 2023)

The 2021-2022 Americanism Essay Contest was an impressive success for the schools that elected to participate, the students, and the Lodge.  The theme for this year’s contest was What Does it Mean to Love Your Country? The topic inspired local 5 th -7 th  grade students to participate with youthful patriotic ideas.  The Cahaba Valley Elks Lodge received 450 essays from area intermediate and middle schools.  The essays were judged by members and outside judges to select the winners of the contest for the District and State Winners.

• May 9, 2023

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Van Wert Elks Essay Contest Winner

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Wayne Trace 7th and 8th grade students participated in the Van Wert Elks Americanism Essay Contest.  7th Grader Brooke Stoller, daughter of Blane and Mindy Stoller,  was selected as a winner and will be recognized at a Youth Day Breakfast where she will receive a monetary prize.

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ESSAY; Moscow's China Card

By William Safire

• Sept. 8, 1986

Every decade or so, China undergoes a political convulsion. In 1948-49, the Communists threw out the Kuomintang; in 1956, Mao's ''Great Leap Forward'' plunged the country into a depression; in 1966, the Cultural Revolution to purify the party brought on a new Dark Ages; in 1976-78, we saw Mao's would-be radical successors, the ''Gang of Four,'' replaced by pragmatic Deng Xiaoping.

Now we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the death of Mao, and some Pekingologists would have us believe that this decade's upheaval will not come.

Mr. Deng, at 82, has provided for his succession, we are assured: it's all set for Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang to succeed him, with Hu Qili of the next generation right behind. Not to worry, goes the current Edgar Snow-job: China's new era of ''commutalism,'' communism with a capitalist face, will march undisturbed into the next millennium.

I wonder. Maybe the conventional wisdom will prove right for once. But for argument's sake, let's look at what is happening in China through a different set of glasses, seeking truth from facts.

Fact number one is that a wave of materialism is sweeping across the billion people of China. After a generation of repression, good ol' greed is back in the saddle, and an I'm-all right-Deng attitude permeates the new entrepreneurs.

As a longtime expositor of the virtue of greed in powering the engine of social progress, I cannot cluck-cluck at this. But there is a difference between the materialism of the Chinese on Taiwan, who are accustomed to free enterprise, and the lust for the good life of available goods on the mainland, where a terrible thirst has been a-building.

Let us assume that the outburst of materialism in China leads to some reaction: that some spoilsport faction emerges to summon up the ghost of Mao's ideological purity, and that this new gang of fortyish Outs finds its way back in. It is at least a possibility.

I think that shrewd old Deng is well aware of this possibility. That is why, despite his ostentatious rejection of personal cultdom, he is preparing his most dramatic assault on the memory of Mao. That father of the revolution startled the world by breaking with the Soviet Union; Mr. Deng, playing a revisionist Lenin to Mao's Marx, wants to startle the world and overwhelm internal opposition by a rapprochement with Moscow.

Accordingly, fact two: He has abandoned his demand that Russia move back its huge army from the Chinese border, thereby double-crossing his own Army leaders. He has forgotten his requirement that Soviet forces be withdrawn from Afghanistan, thereby double-crossing his Westernish ally, Pakistan.

All Mr. Deng now asks of the Russians is that they try to squeeze their Vietnamese clients to pull out of Cambodia. Of course they'll try - ''best efforts'' is an easy promise - and since the Vietnamese are notoriously independent, Moscow cannot be blamed for not succeeding. Result: Mr. Deng takes the salute from atop the wall in Red Square.

That reestablishes his Communist credentials, defanging hard-left opposition at home. And it is Middle Kingdom orthodoxy; I suspect Chinese agents in the U.S. supply the K.G.B. with intelligence, just as Peking permits our Big Ears on its soil to overhear Kremlin transmissions. Chinese policy has always been to play the barbarians against each other.

This theory would also explain fact three: Mr. Gorbachev's seizure of a U.S. newsman as hostage. It is no coincidence that this particular hostage selection follows China's arrest and expulsion of a reporter for a U.S. newspaper. The Soviet leader, advised by Anatoly Dobrynin, must have known that this slap in the face would jeopardize a summit - and went ahead with his calculated humiliation, similar to Mr. Nixon's mining of Haiphong harbor before his Moscow summit in 1972.

Because the Russians now have the prospect of a pilgrimage to Moscow by Mr. Deng, they can taunt the U.S. President with impunity. As Mr. Dobrynin probably predicted, Mr. Reagan is reduced to begging for the hostage's release, in effect volunteering testimony to a Soviet court, in his eagerness to crown his Presidency with a peacemaking summit.

Now Mr. Gorbachev can hang tough, holding a show trial and thereby delaying negotiations with the U.S. until the Deng visit - or can graciously accede to the Reagan plea, thereby establishing his dominance. And the overconfident Mr. Reagan never suspected, as he sat down to summit poker, that this time the China card was in his opponent's hand.