HBT Student Honored For Writing

Vivien Huang, an eighth-grader at H.B. Thompson Middle School in Syosset, has been awarded a certificate of recognition in the National Council of Teachers of English annual Promising Young Writers program. The theme for this year was “The Best Thing I Ever Read Growing Up.”
Huang wrote a poem about the novel, The Year of the Rat by Grace Lin, which she had read as a fifth-grader in Walt Whitman Elementary School. Huang is one of only 39 students in the nation, and one of eight students in New York State, to be awarded a certificate of recognition.
All compositions were evaluated by national judges on content, purpose, tone, word choice, organization, development, style, and ability to move an audience.