2026 Student Essay & Visual Arts Contest Entries

Winners

1st Place - James Lundgren
Teacher: Isaac Lundgren

2nd Place - Jane Bachrach
Teacher: Darlene Bloom

3rd Place - Charlotte Bachrach
Teacher: John Lesueur

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Winners

1st Place - Ruby Sorensen
Teacher: Amanda Lomazzo

2nd Place - Bela Kirking
Teacher: Tina Wylie

3rd Place - Katyelle Cyr-Gillan
Teacher: Heather Lucas

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Winners

1st Place - Kjernan Dockery
Teacher: Terry Graves

2nd Place - Levi Gutierrez
Teacher: Katie Treuhaft

3rd Place - Liam Maes
Teacher: Lisalyn Castonguay

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Grades 4 - 6

Winners

1st Place - Ava Beilfuss
Teacher: Sydnee Short

2nd Place - Anna Wallis
Teacher: Stacey Guardado

3rd Place - Elsie Sorensen
Teacher: Amanda Lomazzo

• First Stop, Arizona(PDF, 588KB)
• Maddie in Mesa(PDF, 730KB)
• Magnificent Mesa(PDF, 518KB)
• Mesa During WW2: Trains(PDF, 548KB)
• Mesa in Time(PDF, 400KB)
• Milano's Music: More on the Inside Than Music(PDF, 817KB)
• Over the Years(PDF, 404KB)
• Sarah and Her Mesa Adventure(PDF, 602KB)
• The Building Blocks of Mesa: Three Structures that Shaped our City(PDF, 597KB)
• The Mezona(PDF, 636KB)
• The Open Lane: The Ja'Kobi Lane Story(PDF, 763KB)
• The Pima Indians(PDF, 333KB)
• The Tohono O'odham Tribe: Ancestors of the Sonoran Desert(PDF, 441KB)
• The Train of Time(PDF, 1MB)

Grades 7 - 12

Winners

1st Place - Audrey Davis
Teacher: Rachel Thune Real

2nd Place - Aidan Dame
Teacher: Beth Ruggiero

3rd Place - Kevin Lundgren
Isaac Lundgren

• Goldfield: Mesa's Living History(PDF, 815KB)
• My Unsung Hero(PDF, 652KB)
• Origins of Heritage Academy(PDF, 694KB)
• Rivers of Life(PDF, 1MB)
• The Story of Mesa(PDF, 634KB)

Winners

Devynn Watson, Anna Margalis, and Kendalyn Martin
Teacher: Tina Wylie

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