Press Release
April 21, 2011
Cowley student among winners chosen in Stossel Essay contest
With over 7,500 essays from students across the country submitted in
the What’s Great About America Stossel Essay contest, Maeve Bruner,
a student at Cowley College’s Bloomenshine Center, was awarded
Honorable Mention in the contest.
At the beginning of the semester, Cowley College adjunct sociology instructor,
Stephani Johns-Hines, asked students in her class to submit an essay
for the contest. With only 222 of the 7,514 essays submitted chosen as
prizewinners, Bruner’s essay ranked among the top three percent.
Winners received cash prizes ranging from $50 to $1,500, with the top-two
winners receiving all-expense-paid trips to New York City for a taping
of one of John Stossel’s weekly television show on the Fox Business
network.
Philip Wegmann, an 18-year old homeschooler from Woodburn, Indiana nabbed
the top prize. Second place was awarded to Dora Juhasz, a 14-year-old
student at Parcells Middle School in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan.
The contest was sponsored by the Sandra and Lawrence Post Family Foundation.