<p>Has anyone from Michigan received anything?</p>
<p>I haven't heard anything, but I know a student in my digital graphics class received a silver key nationally and got a letter for it yesterday, so the letters should be on their way to others soooon!</p>
<p>I got a National Silver Medal today in Writing (Humor).</p>
<p>Congrats!! Did you get it in the mail or did you teacher inform you?</p>
<p>Yay, congratulations!</p>
<p>i just got a packet in the mail that said i won a national gold award in journalism!! :)</p>
<p>if anyone was wondering, i was in RAL, and i live in new york.</p>
<p>i have to say, i didn't really expect a national award...i am quite happy right now =)</p>
<p>is this actually a difficult award to get? I feel like I didn't put in much effort to get my awards..</p>
<p>^To be honest, that depends on the category and your age. Sci-fi and journalism are "easier" to win because fewer people enter them than, say, poetry or short story.</p>
<p>Congrats to all who won national awards! I didn't, but my best friend won gold nationally for poetry.</p>
<p>Congratulations to those of you who got awards! </p>
<p>I have a question for those who got the national awards- did you also get notifications about winning the Regional awards for those same pieces? The reason I ask is that my daughter sent in 4 pieces, of which one got a regional gold key (letter came last month), and a different one got a national gold award (letter came this week). </p>
<p>Of course we are happy with the awards but a bit confused about why the one that got the national award was not even mentioned in the letter that came with the regional gold key. Is this the way it is normally supposed to happen?</p>
<p>I found out about national gold for my short story today.</p>
<p>To be honest, I was really, really surprised. But still excited.</p>
<p>Vicariousparent (I love your username, by the way) that sounds weird. For me, the notifications happened in this order: 1) my teacher got a packet listing the regional awards, 2) I got another packet with essentially the same information and the gold keys themselves, and 3) today I got a smaller packet with the national info for the piece that won. Maybe you could email them? You might have gotten two gold keys at regionals and not been notified about the second one due to an office mistake.</p>
<p>oh mine was in art category ..</p>
<p>Oh, that's so weird... I entered a sci-fi piece but ended up with a random gold key in poetry. I'm kind of sad I didn't get a national award, but not at all surprised. I sort of feel like they advanced the worst of my entries, but maybe that's just me being bitter. ;)</p>
<p>National . . . silver . . . award.</p>
<p>In short story.</p>
<p>art and writing is very subjective....hahaa</p>
<p>No mail here either. Aw well ^_^; Congrats all!!!</p>
<p>teenagecliche, where are you getting your info about the "easiness" of different categories from?</p>
<p>because perhaps not many people send in journalistic pieces from your school, but at our school that's the most common category...</p>
<p>^Really? My apologies; I'm taking it from personal experience from my school and various schools in the area where I have friends, mostly.</p>
<p>I do think poetry is one of the most popular ones, though; that's probably why you're only allowed one entry in it.</p>
<p>Congrats to all winners. :)</p>
<p>I got a national silver in personal essay/memoir! It was completely unexpected. I thought the essay the chose was my worst one, but...hey, who knows.</p>
<p>Those who won, are you planning on going to New York? It doesn't seem worth it to me to do it for a silver (not that I'm not appreciative or anything), but I'm not sure what people usually do.</p>
<p>I think the packet said something like 550/1000 people went to it last year, which struck me as being pretty impressive since it's in NYC.</p>
<p>I'm currently formulating a proposal for my parents: four years of unspent babysitting wages comes in handy right about...now.</p>