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2017 International Torrance Legacy Creativity Awards International Torrance Legacy Creativity Awards Creative Writing Visual Arts Music Composition Inventions Creative Writing 1 2 2016 International Torrance Legacy Creativity Awards Table of Contents 5 Overview 38 Land Beyond the Eye 73 Creative Writing: Ages 16-18 Hamza Hasan Winners List 7 Creative Writing 41 The Rising Sun 74 My Mama’s Roots 8 Creative Writing: Ages 8-10 Ella Guzman Sarah Baldino Winners List 43 Black Rain 75 An Overdue Spoon 9 Mathus Antonius Speaks Chere Low Angkana Annie Chotikul Tanmay Kulkarni 44 2000 76 A Mountain’s View 10 Change Vivien Le Qi Sue Haemaru Chung Priya Bartlett 46 Expectation 77 Letter to Oscillating Body 10 Staying in the Light Tham Yun Xin Cindy Song Maya Wylie 78 Serving Strokes 11 Over the Mountains 48 Creative Writing: Ages 13-15 Shelley Choi Hannah Story Steinberg Winners List 79 Mechanical Lake 12 The Cat-Sitting Calamity 49 All That I Need Stephanie Tom Nina Vigil Shriya Singh 80 Terra Forming 14 The Grasshopper and the Ant, 50 Lost in Evermore Emma Kim as Retold by the Grasshopper Jacqueline Lo Callum Wyer 82 31 Flavors, 31,000 Marching 51 Rice Dumplings Na Kyoung (Diana) Lee 15 Once in a Blue Moon Siu Ching Lee Sarah Franco-Vila 84 Into the Thunderstorm 52 infinitely unstoppable Haemaru Chung 17 Escape to Monaflorence Tonya Hu Molly Slupik 86 A Thousand Words 53 And After Nina Curran 22 Journal of My Visit to the Capital Kenny Kim Headquarters of Laboratories and Robotics 88 The Lost Key Institutes of Technology 54 Constantinople Amrita Bhasin Hudson Guzman Joel Kai-En Hoe 90 Last Night in Little Rock 24 A Monkey Tale 55 Shadow Paintings Matthew Fan Violetta Dacre Christina Wong 93 Any Cold Night 57 Fraying Constellation Jaeho Kim 26 Creative Writing: Ages 11-12 Rachel Liang Winners List 95 Promenade Beginnings 59 That Darn Rabbit Kyra Si-Chen Du 27 Night Surfing Cindy Wang Tyler A. Lynch 97 Their Faces Had Danced 60 Lady of the Eternal Sunshine Jessie Yang 28 To a Brighter Universe! Jingwen Chen Deena Al-Dahwi 62 Sacrifices 99 Visual Arts 29 The Winding Path of Glory Tiffany Kim Whitfield Lilo Al-Dahwi 100 Visual Arts: Ages 8-9 64 Homebound Winners List 30 If She Just Andrea Aw Zhi Yi Amanda Zhou 101 Panda World 66 Memory Pills Shinun Oh 31 Is It Truly Worth It? Seongha Choi Sawyer Jacobson 102 Soaring 68 Manipulated Hudson Guzman 33 Exploring a New Universe Joel Kai-En Hoe Nicole Rei Ki Koh 103 The Life of Leaves 70 A Connection Lost in Paint SeoYeong Oh 35 A Problem with Ice Skates Hiba Jamil Layla Ellis 104 A Bunny Wish 72 God Spoke to Me . in Korean Irene Scaltritti Nicholas T. Rivelle Creative Writing 3 105 Visual Arts: Ages 10-11 128 Female Energy 197 Arts and Leisure Winners List Rayan Salah Alzekri Winners List 106 Seascape 129 Music Man 198 A Problem with Our Phones Hannah Story Steinberg Kashta Naeem Dozier-Muhammad Eveleyn XinYi Mason 107 Imagination 130 Yenah 200 Fencing LED Marker Shahad Abduljalil Selail Yenah Jang Grace Shin 108 Serenity 131 Night Cityscape 202 Drying Konjac Sponge Ella Guzman YeZu Lee Yejin Choi 132 Happiness Is Homemade 205 Smart Chair 109 Visual Arts: Ages 12-13 Zainab Sayed Ahmed Abdulla Salman Hamad A. Aredha Winners List 133 Japanese Wall 110 Tomorrow Maimoona Adel Janahi 207 Science and Engineering Elias A. Jabbar Ali Winners List 134 Assemblage (Portrait) 111 Puppy Love So Yi Hong 208 Pollinator Helper 1.0 Alyssa Schulz Callum Wyer 135 Days We Spent Together 112 Pelican Erica Hwang 211 Ca-Brush Soyoung Hur Alexia Gonzalez 136 Voices from the Past 113 The Love You Give Will Be Erika Keilah Young 213 The VEC: The Velocipedic Eagle Chair Received Again Ailey Jessica Freeman and Ali Abbas Ezbayel 137 Two Mystic Worlds Maya Chinthani Rajapakse Haemaru Chung 114 The World Development 215 V.R. 30x5 Hussail Mohamed Aloraini Tyler Lynch 139 Music Composition 115 Flowers 216 Telepresence Yaena Chun 141 Winners List Varun Jha 116 A Wolf Cub in Snowy Day 142 Triumph of the Matador 218 The Effect of Salt Water on Cloud Albedo Angela Deng Peyton Nelesen Lindsey Angelina Chu 154 The Giggling Music Box 220 Moisture Monitor 117 Visual Arts: Ages 14-15 Zachary Loden Rajkumar Senthilkumar Winners List 155 A Questing Adventurer 118 Spring and Fall Will Horiszny 226 Index Yue, Lucy Wang 158 Travels of a Comet 227 About the Midwest Torrance Center 119 Pure and Blue Sanjna Ganjam for Creativity / Center for Gifted Tahera A. Aziz Heraiz 161 War 229 2018 Torrance Awards 120 The Power of the Ocean Ethan Prado Application Information Sanjna Ganjam 121 A Grateful Heart 167 Inventions Fatima Ali Hussan 169 Toys and Games 122 Untitled (Parrot) Winners List Claudia Lyn Andrews 170 The Greats: Science and 123 Content Life Inventors Edition Yomna Ayman Abou-ismail Callum Wyer 124 A Wolf Behind Trees 175 Business Tycoon Edward Deng Hudson Guzman 183 Devote to Defend 125 Visual Arts: Ages 16-18 Pon Balaji Srinivasan Winners List 188 Sextillion Space Explorations 126 A Reluctant Adventure Dora Ivkovich Daniel Zhu 192 Ambience Alert 127 Ordinary? Vincent Raja Mariasavari Minyoung Shin 4 2016 International Torrance Legacy Creativity Awards Overview Widely regarded as “the father of creativity” in this country, E. PaulTorrance was an eloquent speaker and prolific author, contributing many books, articles and monographs in the field and developing his now widely recognized tests of creative thinking. Today, his ground-breaking ideas, programs, and models continue to tap the creative potential of individuals in all sectors of society and in many countries. The International Torrance Legacy Creativity Awards competition honors the legacy of this great pioneer. The magazine you hold in your hands includes creative submissions of students between the ages of eight and eighteen in four major categories: Creative Writing, Visual Arts, Music Composition, and Inventions. Writing was the first award competition in 2009. Hundreds of children from across the country and around the world submitted their poems and short stories. In subsequent years, visual art, musical composition, and, in 2014, inven- tions were added to the annual International Torrance Legacy Creativity Awards. Students sent entries from many places, among them, the United States, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, China, Singapore, South Korea, King- dom of Bahrain, and India. The enthusiasm of children and young people has continued to expand as more teachers encourage them to submit their most imaginative work to the competition. Every year, the Midwest Torrance Center for Creativity publishes a magazine with the prize-winning poems, stories, visual art pieces, musical scores, and invention designs. It has become a heartening sign for teachers and parents that, despite standardized testing and a narrowing curriculum in many schools, creativity is alive and well among so many children and young people. Over the past nine years, the International Torrance Legacy Awards competition has evaluated student entries within similar age levels. Themes for 2017 submissions included the following: • The Honor and The Glory • A Grateful Heart • What A Mystery! • Couldn't Help Laughing • Journey to Forever • A Reluctant Adventure • Who Would've Thought, and • Exploring a New Universe. This year, the competition received an abundance of creative works—many of them strikingly original, diverse, and skillfully composed. In response, we made greater use of the Honorable Mention category, which enabled judges to recognize high merit in the submissions of participants who did not receive 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place but whose notable compositions showed promise. Due to space limits, we were not able to include the work of these students, but we hope they feel encouraged by this recognition to keep pursuing their creative talents. Sponsors for 2017 included the following: The National Association for Gifted Children, the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development, the NAGC Creativity Network, Future Problem Solving International, and the Center for Gifted/Midwest Torrance Center for Creativity. We hope you enjoy the magazine! Joan Franklin Smutny Director of International Torrance Legacy Creativity Awards Creative Writing 5 6 2016 International Torrance Legacy Creativity Awards Creative Writing Talented young writers were invited to submit their most creative compositions in recognition of the legacy of creativity pioneer E. Paul Torrance. Over the past nine years, the International Torrance Legacy Creative Writing Awards competition has attracted hundreds of young writers who took part in two major categories: poetry and short story. In this year of judging submissions, we were pleased to see evidence of student maturity and growth in writing, in composition as well as in depth of feeling and insight. Student participation represented ages 8-18. Poems and stories were assessed in four age-level categories: ages 8-10, 11-12, 13-15, and 16-18. The themes elicited a wide range of creative compositions—some strikingly original and imaginative. Entries also reflected a rich diversity of ideas and talents expressed by students throughout the United States and other countries, including Canada, Bahrain, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, and South Korea. A panel of three judges, comprised of teachers, authors, and editors in the Chicago area, evaluated the quality of student poems and stories. They were Janet Bartell, Chair; Nancy Messman, Co-Chair; and Sarah von Fremd. Each used rubrics to critique the poetry and stories, focusing for stories on such criteria as organization,