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James W. Cooper Fellows |
2010-2011 Essay ContestScholarship Award Winners
Statewide Winner - $3,000 Savings Bond South Windsor High School
Runner-up - $1,500 Savings Bond Academy of Information Technology and Engineering
Runner-up - $1,500 Savings Bond East Lyme High School |
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To access the winning essays, click on the name of each winner.
Essay submissions are judged on content/originality, organization, use of resource materials and writing. The Connecticut Bar Foundation and the James W. Cooper Fellows do not represent or endorse the accuracy or the reliability of any of the information, content, sources or statements contained in any student essay contest entry in the Connecticut Bar Foundation James W. Cooper Fellows 2008-2009 Statewide High School Essay Contest. |
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2010-2011 Essay Contest Topic |
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“Is Out of School Out of Bounds?”
The topic for the Connecticut Bar Foundation’s Eleventh Annual Statewide High School Essay Contest was “Is Out of School Out of Bounds?” Participants were asked to assume the role of a legislative assistant to a state senator. Students were to prepare a memorandum, not to exceed 1000 words, to explore the pros and cons of amending Connecticut’s bullying statute. They needed to specifically consider whether involving schools in regulating out-of-school bullying conduct raised any issues with respect to free speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and look at what other states had done. |
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