Earth Day Poetry Winners: 2024
Kindergarten
1st Place: Eira Bugbee, Smallest Saguaro
2nd Place: Olive Embacher, Cactus Wren
3rd Place: Bryant Lindem, Gila Monster
HM: Noemi Birkinbine, The Kit Fox
HM: Leopold Neils, Desert
HM: Rashanda Benjamin, Exploring the Sonoran Desert
HM: Anna Tran, untitled
HM: Aubrey Cunningham, untitled
Grade 1
1st Place: Wesley Stamm, Desert Rainbows
2nd Place: Rowan Mobley, Coyotes
3rd Place: Jade Goire, Javelina
HM: Olivia Ballesteros, Saguaros
HM: Luz Russell, The Prairie Dog
HM: Bristynn Powell, The Butifull Bee’s
HM: Nailah Valdivia, Desert Animals
HM: Sedona Hilkemeyer, Rainbow
HM: Talia Douthit, untitled
HM: Ivy Luce, Desert
HM: Ripley Calcote, Desert
HM: Emiliano Arvizu, Desert
HM: Connor McGhee, Desert
Grade 2
1st Place (tied): Arlette Orozco, Flutter, Flutter little bat
1st Place (tied): Aurelia Neils, The Desert is Always Alive
2nd Place: Pearson Simeza, Monsoon Time
3rd Place: Kasiah Balls, Spring Bloom
HM: Claire Moloney, The Sounds of the Desert
HM: Brynn Kinser Traut, The Seasons
HM: Abdiel Garcia, Gila Monster
HM: Valeria Yasaret Preciado, Fishhook Cactus
HM: Jose Morales, Saguaro Cactus
HM: Adison Yeoman, Sonoran Desert
HM: Pavishna Oggu, The Beauty of the Sonoran Desert
HM: Beckett Reisdorf, Puma
HM: Kyle Baltrus, Misquete
HM: Zakiariya Abdulla, One Day
HM: Norah Newman, Desert Home
HM: Liberty Sharpe, My Home
HM: Madison Thornton, The Desert is Beautiful
HM: Townes Jenson, untitled
HM: Gavin James Wilson, untitled
HM: Greta Nelson, Saguaro
Grade 3
1st Place, Overall Winner: Evangeline Lollar, Guardian of the Desert
2nd Place (tied): Asher Mobley, Desert
2nd Place (tied): Alisia Travers, Tortoise
2nd Place (tied): Klayton Maskey, Escorpión Grande
3rd Place (tied): Julianna Ramirez, The Calm Place
3rd Place (tied): Israel Flores, Hawks
3rd Place (tied): Davi Munafo, Monsoon
HM: Jaylynn Victoria Ruiz, Tarantula
HM: Yazmin Gortari Ramos, Tortoise
HM: Amar’e Tinsley, The Lonely Walk
HM: Nicole Gonzalez, Sonoran Desert
HM: Tanner Preston Cass, The Sunset We Have
HM: Audrey Badia, In the Desert
HM: Rotonya Benjamin, Creatures of the Sonoran
HM: Emma Reyes Romo, Desert
HM: Adamariz Ortiz, Sonoran Desert
HM: Mason Couzens, The Sonoran Desert
HM: Kaelynn Valentine, The Desert
Grade 4
1st Place: Julia Dawn Wetzel, I am the Desert
2nd Place (tied): Enakai Makino, Desert Environment
2nd Place (tied): Lexie Durante, A Day of Sounds
3rd Place (tied): Valerie Mougeot, The Sonoran Desert
3rd Place (tied): Olivia Godfrey, Monsoon Season
HM: Alexander Vasquez, Sonoran For Miles
HM: Avi Kansagra, untitled
HM: Alexandra Kanipe, A Beautiful Place
HM: Logan Hesselgrave, Beautiful Desert
HM: Ava Van Doorslaer, Sonoran Life
HM: Aden Goodman, Landscape
HM: Callie Cass, Roadrunner
HM: Alyson Schleicher, Cactus in the Sonoran Desert
HM: Nora Lindsay, The Desert Hawks
Grade 5
1st Place and Overall Winner (tied): Tegan Kwan-Daley, A Midday Thievery
1st Place and Overall Winner (tied): Kaylee Quiamboa, Gray Fox
1st Place (tied): Honora Flanagan, Ringtail Cat
2nd Place (tied): Amira Delaney, A Day in the Desert
2nd Place (tied): Maddie Bedoya, Vulture
2nd Place (tied): Anderson Burke, The little friend
3rd Place (tied): Saad Naveed, The Sunset
3rd Place (tied): Scarlett-Elizabeth Walker, Wind of Water
3rd Place (tied): Desmond T. Davis, Haiku
HM: Raymond Rosilio Polanco, The Fairy Duster
HM: Kemora-kay Carter, Sonoran Sights
HM: Ariel Tseng, Desert Monsoon
HM: Kassidy DeBake, Our Sonoran Desert
HM: Eliana Marquez, Coyote in Rain
HM: Christian Lopez, Warm bellied lizard
HM: Tyler Messina, Monsoon
HM: Becca Kerns, Rhythm of the Bat Wings
HM: Jacob Salcinovic, Desert Diggers
HM: Taryn Payne, The Sonoran Desert
HM: Truman McKisson, Creosote
HM: Ava Honeycutt, Desert’s Joy
Grade 6
1st Place: Kenzie Maskey, Baby Screech
2nd Place: Thalia Soza, Oh, Sonoran Desert
3rd Place (tied): Leroy Anderson, Night
3rd Place (tied): Soleil Bustamante, Sonoran Desert
HM: Mirea Diaz, The Sonoran Desert
HM: Janae Hatch, The desert rattle snake
HM: Santiago Prieto, Sonoran Desert