Farm Bureau Insurance invites 8th graders to write about their Michigan hero

LANSING - The Michigan State Agricultural Insurance Bureau again hosts the American annual meeting and my essay contest - celebrating its 50th anniversary and further awards, focusing on student writers over the past 60 years

Over 50 years, hundreds of thousands of elementary school 8th graders from hundreds of Michigan state schools participate in patriotic lighting competitions and let young people in Michigan state, especially those who change their lives, write Michigan heroes down I recommended.

In this competition to be held from September 1 to November 15, I ask the students to write a theme "My Personal Michigan Hero" again.

The registration kit will be sent to the school in Michigan at the end of August. This competition is open to everyone in the eighth grade of primary school registered in the public school and private school of Michigan State and has won various awards in the local and the whole state.

As part of its 50th anniversary, the company has only one year to add prizes to students and schools. The first entry of each school enters the state-wide competition and the state's top 10 articles are chosen. If the school is sponsored by a farm insurance agency, each state top ten winner will receive a $ 2,000 prize, another $ 1,000 for the school they go to and another 500 dollars for their school I will receive it.

It is planned to celebrate the special day of the top ten winners in May 2019. Each of the top ten winners will be able to invite parents and teachers to the awards ceremony.

For the 50th anniversary of its founding, the company wanted to emphasize earlier winners with the "location" feature on the website. We search for contact information of 49 winners in the past 49 years, such as e-mail and mailing address.

Isabelle Sutherland is an eighth grade of Traverse City East Middle School and is the daughter of Mike and Rebecca Sutherland who won the 6th place in the America & Me Essay contest organized by Farm Bureau Insurance. Her article is based on my personal Michigan hero whose theme is her grandmother, Mary Sutherland who lives in Glen Arbor. This article will be reprinted below. Sutherland received engraved plaque, $ 500 US savings bonds, and $ 500 prize. She won the ceremony at Lansing on May 19th. Also, I went to the State Capitol in Michigan's Princess River Boat, took pictures of her and her family, and took a picture at the desk of Jennifer Granholm chief and became a special guest. Run single nuts minor league baseball game

In the winter of last year, our 7th and 8th graders studied immigration problems in America. The students made a two - day trekking trip with historic immigrants Portland - Japan Town and South Portland. They also invited school speakers, including local immigration lawyers and team leaders in the Portland Trafficking Task Force. At the end of the module, the students cooperated with the US Citizenship Immigration Bureau to make a naturalization ceremony. They welcomed the ten new citizens by decorating the main room of the school, providing food and drink for reception and singing the national anthem. After the ceremony, the students interviewed the participants to understand the story.

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