Hurrah! Here they are... the essay winners 2024!
In this 9th annual essay competition on Kids World Travel Guide, we received 242 entries from 27 countries! Many students showed amazing talent and reading through your stories was such a pleasure!
Congratulations to our fabulous prize-winners! And a huge Thank You to ALL who participated this year and made this competition such a huge success!
We are grateful that our competition inspired the creativity of so many young students who covered a wide range of topics under the 2024 theme: My Culture - Who I am.
From inspiring stories on personal achievements or favourite heroes to essays about countries, religion and popular food. There were many highly creative stories, some of them more critical and political, others more factual and some very imaginative.
As always it is such a motivation to see young talent grow over time! This year we had many students who not only entered for the first time with their high quality content but have been with us for several competitions!
This year we will add again several outstanding essays per category as "commended essays". You can be so very proud of your achievements too!
- Please bear with us, as all the essays and commended entries will be added to the site and linked from this page over the next few days.
Now drumroll please..... herewith we announce the 2024 winners for each category:
"My Culture - Cape Malay Culture" West End Primary School, Cape Town, South Africa, English as first language |
All winners will be notified via email about their success in the essay competition in the coming week. Prizes and certificates will be despatched by the end of the month.
This year we again added a special mentions category for several outstanding essays of our finalists. Essays will be added and linked to this page by the end of the month.
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"Where Legends Come Alive: The Vibrant World of Ramlila" Podar World School, India. Hindi as home language, English as second language |
All winners will be notified via email about their success in the essay competition. Prizes and certificates will be despatched by the end of the month.
This year we again added a special mentions category for several outstanding essays of our finalists.
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Thank you for your wonderful essays! All these excellent essays will make a great reading and are an inspiration!
Commended essays will be added and linked to this page by the end of the month.
Merit award certificates for "special mention" essays will be sent to the participants by the end of the month.
Keep honing your writing skills while exploring the world around you, there is nothing better than sharing ideas, experiences and insights!
Our competition stats and the infographic for the 2024 competition will be shown here by end of November 2024, too. Please watch this space....
Now, if you are interested in our previous competition winners, check out their essays in the last years' listings below:
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Augustin Bailly (EAC School of Languages, France) - English as Second Language, Home Language French |
Matin Wirasena from Mentary Intercultural School Bintaro in Indonesia "Indonesia: My Beloved Homeland, The Emerald of The Equator" |
Zachary Ming Zhi Tan from St. Joseph Institution International Elementary School in Singapore |
Emily Bates from Wales/UK (Homeschooled) |
Tristan Kuhn from South Africa (Home educated) |
Lana Labudović from Ladimirevci Primary School in Croatia |
Javier Yung from Chung Cheng High School in Singapore |
Vidhyuth Viswanathan from Urbana Sugarloaf Elementary School, USA 'Diwali Festival of Lights' |
Pranavkrishna Bharanidharan from California Montessori Project, India/USA 'Diwali' |
Nuthara Karunarathna from Lyceum International School, Sri Lanka 'Vesak Day' |
Javier Yung from Singapore 'Moon Cake Festival' |
We really enjoyed all your entries, so please do not give up on your dream if you want to become a writer but your essay was not chosen for publication this time.
Never give up! Keep on writing and honing your skills and join in our next competition! ... And for some of you we will have a special treat, so keep our site bookmarked and you might hear from us regarding a special publication of your entry on another page on this site. Cheers!
All winners will be notified via email about their success in the essay competition to claim their prizes which then will be dispatched in the coming week. Congratulations again! Well done! Keep on writing!
Matilda Rumball-Smith from New Zealand, Ngunguru School
'New Zealand - Aoteorea'
Kundana Panuganti from the USA, Eason Elementary School
'My Country India'
Ana Sofia Moreno from South Africa, Curro Schools
'My Country South Africa'
Image credits on essay competition winners page: Shutterstock.com and own images
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