2023 KSEA Art Contest

2023 KSEA Art Contest

The KSEA National Art Contest was held in Spring 2023 for K-12 students in the U.S. In March, the art theme “50 years later” was announced through the email advertisement and the event website http://art.ksea.org.

130 students were registered in the contest, and 80 students submitted their work in April. In the artwork, the participating students visualized their imagination on the future life with science and technology. The KSEA art committee recruited 6 art professionals as judges. 6 more judges were invited from the KSEA personnel groups such as admins, volunteers, and staff. Through the judging process, five top entries for each division were chosen. 20 award winners from 4 divisions (elementary 1, elementary 2, middle, and high) were selected.

In May 20, 2023, the online award ceremony was held in Zoom. Dr. Clara Choi at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley made a congratulatory speech as one of the judges. 20 award winners were announced in the ceremony.

The 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th place winners in each division received the certificate of award and the prize money $300, $200, $100, $50, and $50, respectively. The KSEA gave the honorarium $150 to each judge. In the award ceremony, we had the raffle event, and sent $25 gift cards to 10 raffle winners.

The list of awardees

Division 1 K-2nd grade

1st place: Hara Jeon, Grade 2
2nd place: Jeremiah Lee, Grade K
3rd place: Olivia Kim, Grade 2
4th place: Evan Lee, Grade K
5th place: Roy Kim, Grade 1

Division 2 3rd-5th grade

1st place: Lisa Hwang, Grade 4
2nd place: Michelle LeePark, Grade 3
3rd place: Joshua Yoon, Grade 4
4th place: Daniel Song, Grade 5
5th place: Chloe Kim, Grade 5

Division 3 6th-8th grade

1st place: Evan Lee, Grade 8
2nd place: Lainey Kim, Grade 8
3rd place: Collin Chon, Grade 7
4th place: Azel Han, Grade 7
5th place: Insung Kang, Grade 7

Division 4 9th-12th grade

1st place: Arim Jun, Grade 10
2nd place: Jaimie Kim, Grade 11
3rd place: Brian Lee, Grade 11
4th place: Beomjin Kim, Grade 9
5th place: Seoyoon Song, Grade 9

1^st place arts in 4 divisions:

Elementary division 1