<p>I'm so excited for my daughter! She submitted her Portfolio and some of her individual pottery pieces to the National Scholastic Art and Writing Competition, and was just notified that she earned 4 Silver Key Awards and 4 Gold Key Awards (including her portfolio) at the regional level! Now the pieces that earned Gold get forwarded to NYC to be judged for the national competition. Her portfolio could earn her a $10,00 scholarship too! It is so nice to see all her hard work pay off. She works hard and is so humble and hard on herself. Even if she doesn't win @ the national level I think this has helped her to begin to see what great potential she has! </p>
<p>This is all new to me so I wondered if anyone else has had any experience with this competition?</p>
<p>I won a national award in my sophomore year for jewelry and won 5 gold keys, 1 silver as a junior. [and semifinalist for New York Life scholarship]</p>
<p>Still waiting on this year’s results. I’m almost certain I won’t win at national level this year though. It’s extremely hard to do given the small number of pieces that win each year; however, there is always a great chance :]… I’ve been entering in painting and drawing lately though … which are the most popular, and thus, most competitive categories.</p>
<p>Congratulations to her on all the awards! If this is anything similar to my sophomore year, you’ll be hearing about national awards before April. [I received my letter late in the mail April fool’s day so I initially thought it was a joke!] In the meanwhile, there isn’t much else to do other than wait for the news and possibly go to the regional awards ceremonies. If you plan to have the winning pieces shown in youth art shows or during the regional awards ceremony, make sure they are properly packaged, shipped, cared for, and displayed. The group that runs the regional awards ceremony and subsequent youth art show for us often doesn’t look after pieces well. I’ve had friends report their jewelry pieces stolen, sculptures missing pieces, paintings damaged. [They still have my painting back from my freshman year!] With paintings, it is a tad harder to noticeably damage but I assume your D’s pieces are much more fragile than our wood stretchers and canvas. Use lots of tissue/newspaper to protect the piece while it’s moving from place to place!</p>
<p>Congrats to your daughter! She earned so many awards - her pieces must be really beautiful.
My son also won a gold key this year for an animated film. I do not have anything to add about the competition but we are excited for him and look forward to hearing what happens the national competition. Unfortunately the college he will be attending does not participate with the scholarships so should he even win a gold, it will be thrilling but will not translate into any scholarship money for him.
Good luck to your daughter!</p>
<p>Congrats to the other current and past winners too! I don’t think there will be a regional show for her as we are part of the “Northeast @ Large Region” and the site says that regions @ large don’t have thier own shows. I know it is probably a long shot that she will win a Gold Medal @ the national level, but if she does we are hoping that we can drive her pieces to NYC (it’s 3 hours away) rather that trust her pottery to a shipping company.</p>
<p>Do you guys think she should email the colleges she has applied to and let them know that several of the pieces in the portfolios she submitted for admission have won these awards? The website says regional winners should let admissions know and that it can help with admission and/or scholarships, but D feels a bit unsure…</p>
<p>I would say definitely, it can only help. Had this happened before the application process, you would be including it anyway. I can’t imagine any school using the information against her!!</p>
<p>My son won a silver portfolio for his art portfolio at the national level as a senior and he did get a number of related scholarship offers in April so he had them on hand when he made his choice about college/art program. Portfolio awards generally were higher than for individual gold or silver key awards. It varies by school but MICA and RIT had very generous scholarships tied to the award.</p>
<p>It was very exciting to go to NY and he had a blast. Generally our school gets one or two national awards each year and the administrators take it in turns to go with the students. Our principal as well as the art teachers went with my son and another student. Oh…if you are lucky enough to get to go to NY…Go to the award ceremony early we had nose bleed seats and couldn’t even see him on stage. We only stayed that one night and he came home on a regional bus.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice! D’s school doesn’t even tell the students about this program! I found it online in November and encouraged her to give it a try. I really wish she had known about it before now (senior year). I have now encouraged the art and english departments to get the word out to our students. It looks like RIT and Syracuse are on the list in case she does get some national recognition. This makes me very happy since those 2 schools are on her list and expensive!</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone in the running for national awards, fingers crossed!!</p>
<p>Hello all, and congrats to all winners!
I won a Gold Key for my portfolio this year! Does anyone know when the national awards will be announced
Thank you!</p>
<p>Congrats to you! They will announce it on the website next week 3/15. Good luck! My D is anxiously waiting to hear as well! I think they only award 8 Gold Keys @ the National Level for Art Portfolios so it will be an AWESOME accomplishment if you win! Keep us posted and I wiil let you know how my D makes out as well!!</p>
<p>Good luck to all in the Scholastics! We had a late competition this year and are having the county awards tonight…my D had a couple of silvers in photography so she won’t be competing in nationals. If your portfolio gets a silver at nationals there are still quite a lot of scholarships tied to this as well as for gold keys for individual pieces. Definitely it is worth emailing the colleges that your kid has applied to to let them know if your kid places at nationals. Let us know the results. I have my fingers crossed for CC kids.</p>
<p>Waiting now on pins and needles. Was 3/15 the announced date? Last year when my D’s classmate won a Silver at Nationals, the teacher heard a few days ahead of the publicized date. Now this year, my D has a photo up for National review.</p>
<p>Oh well, none of my D’s pieces or Portfolio won @ the national level, but still very proud of her accomplisments @ the regional level! How did others make out - keeping positive thoughts, let us know!</p>
<p>Unsure whether to attend gala
So excited my junior daughter won a national gold award! However two things concern me.
We just took a spring break trip to europe with her class and don’t have extra money to go to NYC from Texas. How incredible is it? If its 800 people having their name read that doesn’t seem to justify thousands of dollars. On the other hand, I’d hate for her to miss it.
Also, she won’t have her painting if she sends it off for two years for her portfolio, does she have to send it? There’s no guarantee it’ll be hung or travel is there?
Just wondering, still very, very excited for her!</p>
<p>Take slides/images of the painting. That’s all she’s going to need to submit for colleges anyway. Also most schools want to see work done within the past 2 years at most so if it’s from her Sophomore year it would probably be too old to submit anyway. But just take photos to download to a computer generated portfolio. That’s what most schools look at now.</p>
<p>I would say go to nyc to attend the gala.
It is a big award. She won her way to go. That is a live time experience and maybe some speaker inspire her in someway.
Congrats!</p>
<p>My freshman daughter got a gold medal for her poetry collection. I just booked flights to NY. It seems the reviews for the Roosevelt hotel are not that great. Any recommendations on hotels?</p>