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James W. Cooper Fellows |
2009-2010 Essay ContestScholarship Award Winners
Statewide Winner - $3,000 Savings Bond Newtown High School
Runner-up - $1,500 Savings Bond Hopkins School
Runner-up - $1,500 Savings Bond Hopkins 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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2009-2010 Essay Contest Topic |
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“The Trouble with Texting”
The topic for the Connecticut Bar Foundation’s Tenth Annual Statewide High School Essay Contest was “The Trouble with Texting.” Participants were asked to write an Opinion Piece for the State of Foundation’s leading newspaper, either supporting or opposing the prosecution of a teenager for texting a “suggestive” photo to friends. They were also asked to discuss what punishment, if any, should be meted out to deter the transmittal of “suggestive” photos.
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