Introducing: The 2008 FTF Scholarship Judges
- By: JillianRyan
- Created on: 11/18/2008
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With the launch of www.travelBIGO.com, came a rush in scholarship applicants for the 2008 Family Travel Forum Teen Travel Writing Contest. During the four months that essays were accepted, more than 6,000 teens submitted their tales.
Judging the sheer volume of eloquent travel stories, photographs and videos required a team of college and graduate level journalism majors to assist FTF editors in selecting all finalists.
Over the summer, four talented college students began the screening process by reading each and every submission with laughter, emotion and passion. Danny Strein is a cross-country track runner and lifeguard who is currently studying English and psychology at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. A senior magazine journalism major at Syracuse University and lover of London, Lisa Berry commuted more than two hours everyday from her home in New Jersey to read essays. Sitting next to her at FTF's Upper Westside offices in New York was Cornell University’s Yael Borofsky, a huge Philadelphia Phillies fan and Human Development major looking to expand her horizons with her FTF internship.
At summer’s end, our interns returned to school and our new fall interns quickly came in and took over the judging process. Without missing a beat, Selina Andersson, a senior Linguistics major at New York University who just returned from studying abroad in Australia and touring Southeast Asia, jumped into the judge’s seat. Right behind her was Pace University’s Michelle Manetti. Studying communications and media, Michelle just bought a typewriter to start her first novel!
A recent graduate of St. John’s University’s journalism program, Brian Cheung traveled to Japan and Taiwan for the first time last summer, but also spent much of his childhood extensively touring the United States. A freelance writer currently working on his MBA online at the University of Phoenix, Mustafa Samiullah did his undergraduate work at Brooklyn College and likes to laugh about the fact that, at 27-years old, he is FTF’s oldest intern.
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