THANKSGIVING ESSAYS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

Dear Participant,

Thank you for your wonderful contribution to the Thanksgiving Day Creative Celebration. We received outstanding poems, essays, and artwork that exemplify the creativity of New York State’s young people.

The submissions received are remarkable in what they represent – showing gratitude and respect for family, friends, our troops fighting overseas, and many other important subjects and activities. I am humbled and honored to see such inspiring contributions in response to what is a deceptively difficult question: “What are you thankful for?”

On behalf of the New York State Senate, I would like to offer my wholehearted congratulations to all of the participants in this year’s Thanksgiving Day Creative Celebration.

Sincerely,

Senator Toby Ann Stavisky

IS 237

• Sristhi Bhatia
• Alexis Dixon
• Windy Huang
• Kevin Liu
• Sara Poon
• Liang Qi Ren
• Salinna Roldan
• Cindy Seng
• Yu Wang

MS 74

• Gary Jiang
• Gary Jiang

PS 12Q James B. Colgate

• Joalice Davis
• Tenzin Lhamo
• wendy Lin
• Neel Patel
• Sharna Saha
• Karin Wang
• Leo Wang

PS 173 Fresh Meadows

• Lielle Aranbayev
• Daniel Aronov
• Flora Au
• Emily Cai
• Aaron Hindi
• David Khaimov
• Samee Khaled
• Joy Lin
• Harrison Low
• Gabriel Matatov
• Raquel Mulakandov
• Syed Naqvi
• Andrea O'hara
• Nathalie Perdomo
• Vanessa Wong
• Julie Wu
• Yusuf Zafar

PS 174 Q William Sidney Mount

• Kylie Chiang
• Alex Hagiu
• Elliot Heath
• Shaun Karani
• Malachi Levinson
• Alethea Plass

PS 175Q The Lynn Gross Discovery School

• Anna Grabowska
• Maria Grabowska
• Zofia Grabowska

PS 213

• Arielle Wolynez

Talented and Gifted School for Young Scholars

• Joshua Liu
• Martin Lou
• Amelie Phung
• Ella Shin
• Ryan Soon

The Queens College School for Math, Science, and Technology PS/IS 499

• Ms. Griffin's Class 1-Mar
• Ms. Griffin Class 3-1