2024 Writing Contest Winners | SLC Undergraduate Writing Contest

Thank you to all the students who submitted your brilliant work to the writing contest this year.

Announcing the prize winners and hourable mentions in each category:

Fourth Year+

1^st Prize: Grayson Barke, How can Municipal Governments in Metro Vancouver Reduce the Amount of 6PPD-Q Entering Fish-Bearing Watercourses?

2^nd Prize: Samantha Butler, How can Prescribed Burning and Indigenous Cultural Burning be Used to Reduce the Impacts of Wildfires in Canadian Forests in Response to the Effects of Climate Change?

Honourable Mentions:

Brendan Routh, Towards Indigenous Literary Nationalisms: Interpreting Monkey Beach and The Marrow Thieves

Colin Ai-Jeffrey, The Soccer Field’s Unfreedom

Middle Years

1^st Prize: Aspen Ho, The Blind Leads the Blind: Denying Systemic Discrimination in Discussions of Implicit Bias

2^nd Prize: Allison Hill, The Fight Over the Colorado River: How Nevada’s Water Conservation Policies Can Inform Basin-Wide Management Efforts

Honourable Mentions:

Nadine Laity, Ukraine’s Nuclear Weapon Surrender: A Futile Attempt at Preventing War

Nicholas Tjandra, Stories That Mend: Reconciling Intergenerational Trauma in Medicine Walk

Leila Davies, What should be done with the carbon dioxide extracted from the atmosphere by Direct Air Capture technology?

Arash Moini, Morality, AI, and Humanity in Detroit: Become Human

First Year

1^st Prize: Sheridan Nix, An Argument for Policy Making

2^nd Prize: Aryan Sharifi, War's End? Realist, Liberal, and Constructivist Perspectives on the Decline-of-War Thesis

Honourable Mentions:

Brianna Bisaillon, The Intersection of Neurodivergence, Race and Diagnostic Barriers in British Columbia: A Personal Reflective Journey

Puneet Uppal, The Classification of AI Chatbots as High-Risk Systems in Legal Frameworks to Reduce their Risk to Human Safety

Plurilingual Prize

1^st Prize: Ash Szeto, Hong Kong Ethnicity and Influence of Cantonese As a First Language on English Language Acquisition: A Literature Review

2^nd Prize: Siddhartha Minhas, John Builds a Great New Wall: The Oriental Object of Pearl

Congrats to all winners and honourable mentions and thanks again to everyone who made the contest a success again in 2024.