Dade Days Essay Contest

Chamber South Announces the winners of the 2012 Dade Days Essay Contest

The Chamber South Education and Business Coalition proudly announce the winners of the Dade Days Essay Contest. This year’s winners are Ivan Rasmusson of Coral Reef Senior High and Sebastian Messier of School for Advanced Studies Miami-Dade College. They will receive a VIP trip to Tallahassee to experience the state of Florida’s legislative process first hand. The Education & Business Coalition sponsors this contest each year in an effort to help develop writing skills and instill in our future leaders an understanding of how individuals can make a difference.

Last April, two winning students from Robert Morgan High School and their parent chaperones were awarded with a trip to Tallahassee where they attended meetings with local legislators during Dade Days, toured the Old and New Capitol and the Supreme Court, and networked with local officials and business professionals. For more than a decade, the essay contest winners and their parents have described the trip as a once in a lifetime experience that provides an eye-witness view of our state government.

The two winners had to write a 500 word essay that answered one of two questions: 1.) Should elected officials be held to a higher moral standard than you and I; 2.) There appears to be apathy among youth today as to political involvement. If given the opportunity, what would you do to change it? You can read the two winning essays on Chamber South’s website. This year’s contest was sponsored by Baptist Health South Florida and the College of Business & Technology.

 
Click here to read Ivan Rasmussen’s winning essay, or here to read the winning essay by Sebastian Messier.

ChamberSouth Essay Contest 2011