Senior Harrison Boling was one of 8 winners of the Young Native Writers Essay Contest, sponsored by the Holland and Knight Law Firm and the Holland and Knight Charitable Foundation. The winners and their teachers spent a week in Washington D.C., where the activities included tours of the White House and the Capital, as well as meetings with Senator Tom Dorgan at the Aspen Institute. Students and teachers also spent time at the Cultural Resource Center of the National Museum of the American Indians in addition to seeing a play at the Kennedy Center. They were interviewed for an NPR radio show hosted by Jay Winter Nightwolf.
The students were asked to discuss what they perceive as a problem in the Native American community and to come up with some solutions for the problem ( or at least propose what they might do to help the situation). Harry chose to write about the low rate of college graduates among Native Americans, and his solution was more intermediate steps to insure that students were comfortable in the college setting. Here's the website for those interested in more: http://www.nativewriters.hklaw.com/index.asp
Harry was accompanied by English teacher Christine Hicks.
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