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Student Essay Contest

2024-2025 Essay Contest Winner Announced

Shepherd student Dannielle Amoroso, a psychology major from Gaithersburg, MD, has won this year’s Common Reading student essay contest. Amoroso’s essay, titled “Third Eye,” is based on Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson, Shepherd’s 2024-2025 Common Reading book. Amoroso wrote the essay for an English composition class. Essays were judged by a panel of three faculty members. Amoroso opted to receive a $350 gift card toward tuition as her prize. Congratulations, Dannielle! 

Student Essay Contest

Shepherd students are encouraged to enter the Common Reading Student Essay Contest.

A winning entry does/has the following elements: