Bothell student wins Holocaust Center Writing, Art, and Film Contest

Published 11:15 am Monday, August 1, 2016

Three students from Cedar Park Christian in Bothell were honored for their entries into the Holocaust Center for Humanity’s Writing, Art and Film Contest, including Kambria Trout, who won a first-place award.

Trout won in the art category for fifth and sixth grade students, while Jacob Sims won third and Gavin Keen earned an honorable mention in the same category. All three students are taught by Hahnna Christenson.

The competition this year was based around the planting of the Anne Frank tree sapling in Seattle.

Nearly 900 students, from grades 5 through 12, from more than 60 different schools from around the area responded through paintings, essays, sketches, poems and films. The winners were honored on July 24 at the Holocaust Center for Humanity for the awards ceremony.

For more than 25 years, the Holocaust Center for Humanity has been teaching tolerance and citizenship through lessons of the Holocaust and provides inspirational education opportunities and resources to teachers and the community. The Center offers teacher training, a Speakers Bureau of local Holocaust survivors, “travelling trunks”, and the Writing, Art, and Film Contest.

The contest is designed to empower students to creatively speak out and explore different aspects of their daily lives while engaging with the lessons of the Holocaust. Through this contest, students can connect to the Holocaust through their own lives, and are inspired by the discoveries they make while creatively exploring the Holocaust.