Joyce Kim was on a Zoom call with her teacher, her mom, and the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards team when she found out she’d won. After the call ended, she and her mother screamed.
The Alpharetta teenager had just become one of 16 students nationwide — and the only one from Georgia — to receive a Gold Medal Portfolio Award, the organization’s highest honor. The award comes with a $12,500 scholarship. On June 10th, Kim will be recognized at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In the fall, she heads to Yale University.
It wasn’t something she had let herself expect. Before applying to the program, Kim browsed the Scholastic alumni gallery online, a list that includes filmmaker Ken Burns, artist Andy Warhol, writer Joyce Carol Oates, and poet Amanda Gorman.
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