Shawnee Mission North student wins Poetry Out Loud

Shawnee Mission North High School sophomore Casha Mills has won the 2010 Kansas State Poetry Out Loud recitation competition and will travel in April to Washington, D.C., to compete in the national finals. Markayla McCarter, senior at Parsons High School, placed second.

The competition was held Friday, March 12, 2010, at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka and was presented by the Kansas Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, in cooperation with the Kansas Association of Teachers of English.

As the state champion, Mills receives $200 and an all-expenses-paid trip to Poetry Out Loud National Finals on April 26 and 27, in Washington, D.C. to compete for a $20,000 scholarship. In addition, the state champion’s school receives a $500 stipend for the purchase of poetry books.

Click here to learn more and see photos from the event.