Mason High School senior Kaavya Ramachandhran received a received a Silver National Medal in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for her personal essay titled Aves. This places her within the top 1% of nearly 340,000 works of art and writing that were submitted nationwide.
As a National Medalist, Ramachandhran's work will be published in the Online Galleries at artandwriting.org in June, and her name will be listed in the 2019 Yearbook, a companion publication to The Best Teen Art and The Best Teen Writing anthologies.
"I am so proud of Kaavya and knew her MHS and MCS familly would be as well!' shared MHS English and Creative Writing teacher Mandi Bross.
Since 1923, the Awards have celebrated teen artists and writers from across the country.