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Winners of WACE’s Why Learn Chinese competition get cash prizes

February 27, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Grand Prize winner Mason Ji thanks WACE after accepting his award. Watching him, from left, are Seattle Chinese Garden President Jonathan Geiger, Kevin Li, and WACE officer Wayne Huang.

More than 70 high school and middle school students in Washington, and one from across the country in Maryland, submitted essays, videos, and even a comic strip for the first annual competition sponsored by the student-run Washington Association for Chinese Education (WACE).

The six competition award winners, from left: Megan Lu, Kate Lipscomb, Lee Xie, Andy Lin, Mason Ji, and Katarina Nguyen

Winner of the Grand prize, announced Jan. 28 at an awards ceremony at the Seattle Chinese Garden, is Mason Ji, a senior at Interlake High School in Bellevue. He got $500. Second place prizes of $250 went to Katarina Nguyen, a senior at Edmonds-Woodway High School, and Megan Lu, a sixth-grader at Heather Wood Middle School. Third place honorable mention prizes of $100, went to Kate Lipscomb, a sixth-grader at Madrona K–8, Lee Xie, a junior at Issaquah’s Skyline High School, and Andy Lin a senior at Skyline.

WACE was founded by Andrea Liu and Kevin Li, seniors at Skyline. (end)

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Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2012, Andrea Liu, Andy Lin, Heather Wood Middle School, Interlake High School, Katarina Nguyen, Kate Lipscomb, Lee Xie, Mason Ji, Megan Lu, Seattle Chinese Garden, Skyline High School, Vol 31 No 9 | February 25 - March 2, WACE

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