Chesterton High School senior Nicholas Brahos has been named a winner of the
National Council of Teachers of English Achievement in Writing for 2010.
Brahos was nominated by his junior English teacher Doug Pishkur. Since 1989,
18 CHS students have received this award.
A total of 1,641 students were nominated in their junior year by their
teachers to participate in the 2010 program with 543 chosen from the 50
states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Canada, and American
schools abroad. Only 15 were chosen from Indiana. Each piece of writing
submitted by a nominee was read and evaluated by two judges, one of whom is
a high school teacher and the other a college English teacher. The winners
are among the best student writers in the country.
The Achievement Awards in Writing program was established in 1957 to
encourage high school students in their writing and to recognize publicly
some of the best student writers in the nation. Assessments of student
writing are based on students’ samples of their own best prose or verse and
on impromptu themes that are written under supervision.
A team of English teachers judge the writing, looking especially for writing
that demonstrates effective and imaginative use of language to inform and
move an audience.
Winning students and their schools receive certificates recognizing their
accomplishment and the names of the students and their schools are posted on
the NCTE website:
http://www.ncte.org/awards/student/aa
Students also receive cards highlighting their achievement to attach to
their college application forms.
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