Thank you to all participants, who all submitted high quality presentation and essays. We are pleased to announce final rankings of Chinese History Month speech contest based on combination of results from public vote, presentation expert evaluation and content , with extra points for being referred to legislators. Certificates and awards will be presented, and a zoom session will be held in a few weeks. Congratulations!
Grade 3: Emily Xiao(1st), Jimmy Yun(2nd), Elizabeth Yu(3rd)
Grade 4: Emily Shi(1st), Yinan Shao(2nd), Nathan Qiu(3rd)
Grade 5: Elaine Chen(1st), Owen T. Zhang(2nd), Nathan Zhou tie Sam Shao(3rd)
Grade 6-8: Julia Shang(1st), Gordon Zhang tie Leon Le(2nd), Christopher Yu(3rd)
Grade 9-11: Tiffany Tu(1st), Zheyu Ray Hu(2nd), Justin Ho(3rd)
Special Recognition of 8th Grader Brent Hu for submitting presentation from Tacoma
Please cast your vote in each of the following categories, and vote as many as you like. Vote None at the top or simply skip the entire group if you are not sure who you’d like to cast vote to or you are not interested in that age group. Please note that you only get to vote once, so make sure you submit votes only when you are ready. Each name gets you the YouTube link, whole play list is at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWU2LCvCuMEwlx3jLqO6utlr94TcpaeDt , please evaluate based on your impression of speech presentation and speech content. Please share to as many as you like. Poll closes 4/8 12:00am PST. Thank you.
Washington State SB 5264, declaring January as Chinese American history month, just passed in the committee unanimously. ACE Foundation is pleased to sponsor our first Chinese history month speech contest, any content written by the presenter pertaining to Chinese American is welcome, 2 minute limit. We have age appropriate segments for adults, college students, high schoolers, middle schoolers and elementary students, top 3 from each segment get certificates and award. Please submit your article, video clip or link to admin@acefus.org with name, grade, city/state and phone number by March 8th, with a subject line containing “ACEF Chinese History Month Speech Contest”, ACEF reserves the rights of publishing none, any or all portion of each submission. Past speech links can be found at https://aceus.org/2021/02/03/students-testify-for-sb5264-chinese-history-month-in-senate/
华州SB 5264华人历史月议案已在委员会获得全票通过。牛年大吉，我们ACE Foundation主办华人历史月演讲比赛，英文，内容不限，只需跟华人相关，自己撰稿，时限两分钟，暂分成人，大学生，高中生，初中生，小学生区段，每区段取前三名，将颁发奖金证书，并推荐到众议院听证会发言。有愿意参与的请尽早与我们联系，请将参选文稿，视频电邮 admin@acefus.org 注明姓名年级和电话，截止日期3月8号，标题请写明ACEF Chinese History Month Speech Contest，ACEF 保留发表，部分发表或不发表任何提交来的视频的权力。演讲样本及参考请见 https://aceus.org/2021/02/03/students-testify-for-sb5264-chinese-history-month-in-senate/ 。参议院听证会上两位小朋友的发言受到议员们的肯定。听证会发言作为历史资料，TVW 永久存档的。