Education Abroad Photo Contest Results
The results are in and the winners have been selected for the 2007 Education Abroad Photo Contest.
Check out the results on the VCU Education Abroad website at http://www.vcu.edu/oie/eao/summer_study_abroad/contest.html .
We would like to thank everyone who submitted their pictures and would also like to thank all who voted in the contest. There were over 150 photos submitted and over 200 voters for this year's contest. We are already looking forward to the 2008 Education Abroad Photo Contest!
Here are the winners:
Grand Prize, Laura Sullivan:
Monks in Laos gave us advice on which temples to visit.
Academic Category, Jennifer Phillips:
These Guatemalan girls are coming from or going to school. Two are dressed in Catholic school attire and the other dressed in traditional Mayan clothing. In Antigua, the Mayan culture is not often celebrated. It’s common that Mayan children have to abandon their Mayan culture when they begin school.
People Category, Teddy Taylor:
This photo was taken while waiting in line to enter the Vatican’s museum. The woman in the front is selling scarves while the man plays the accordion for the line.
Places Category, Betsy Schnibbe
After reaching Machu Picchu, my sister Jenna and I climbed to what they call the cemetery at Machu Picchu and took this.
Open Category, Zachary Helminiak
The miscellaneous photo is in Budapest, Hungary. The photo is of the reflection of the Fisherman’s Bastion in a building across the street. You can see me taking the picture on the right in the fourth panel from the bottom. I thought this was interesting look at something very old in the reflection of a modern building.