2025 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards

Gettysburg Area School District (GASD) is excited to announce the 2025 Scholastic Art and Writing Regional Competition Awards.

GASD students earned three Gold Keys, five Silver Keys, and 12 Honorable Mentions. Gold Key Award winning art will move on for national adjudication with results to be announced in March.

Gahs: Gold keys in art

Salem Palmer
Gold Key in Photography 
 (“The Blue Room”) 
Silver Key in Photography
(“I’m Not Sharing”)
Honorable Mention in Digital Art
(“BEsT FriEnDS FoREveR”)

Adelyn Zipp
Gold Key in Digital Art
 (“I Wish I Could Buy a Giant House, But I Can't Afford The Down Payment, Because It Is Several Thousand Dollars, & I am Broke & Only Five”)
Honorable Mention in Digital Art
(“Core & Flesh of Fruit”)

GaMs: Gold key in writing

Chloe Smith
Gold Key in Flash Fiction
(“Operation Hawaii”)

Gahs: Silver keys in art

Eliza Dreves
Silver Key in Photography
(“Forsaken Skylight”)

Piper Kerney
Silver Key in Mixed Media 
(“Goat”)

GaHs: Silver keys in writing

Marissa Jones
Silver Key in Novel Writing
(“A Villain’s World”)

NeShyda Williams
Silver Key in Personal Essay & Memoir
(“Sickle”)

GaHs: Honorable mentions in art

Eliana Bonner
Honorable Mention in Mixed Media 
(“Lady in Monarchs”)

Alyssa Cool
Honorable Mention in Photography 
(“Beach House Glow”)

Lacey Kahler
Honorable Mention in Painting 
(“The Beauty in Madness”)

Spencer Muhl
Honorable Mention in Digital Art 
(“Ecliptic”)

Adelina Rivera-Baxter
Honorable Mention in Photography 
(“Sunlit Scenery”)

Megan Schultz
Honorable Mention in Senior Portfolio: Photography Series 
(“Solitude”)

Grayson Wallace
Two Honorable Mentions in Sculpture (Both for Ceramic)
(“Rattle” & “Serpent”)

Gahs: honorable mentions in writing

Samantha Grant
Honorable Mention in Short Story 
(“Save Yourself”)

GaMs: honorable mentions in writing

Aubrey Miller
Honorable Mention in Poetry 
(“The Ouroboros”)

 

National Medalists will be recognized at an in-person ceremony. This will be held at Carnegie Hall on June 11, 2025. Due to space, only the Gold Medalists are invited, but Silver and Gold Medalists are recognized and the ceremony is live streamed. More information is available on the official website. www.artandwriting.org