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Breaking Barriers was developed by MLB, Scholastic and Sharon Robinson, the daughter of Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson. The essay contest encourages students to write about overcoming personal barriers through the example Jackie set forth many years ago. Niki Tilicki, Esme's teacher, notified the students about the essay contest in class.
Breaking Barriers Essay Contest. South Florida Youth! Each year April 15 marks the anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball in 1947. What barriers have you faced growing up? Share with us through the Breaking Barriers Essay Contest! Throughout his life Robinson embodied nine values.
The Breaking Barriers essay contest asks students, grades 4 through 9, to submit an essay about barriers or obstacles they have faced or are still facing in their lives, and how they used the values exemplified by Jackie Robinson to deal with those obstacles. Sharon Robinson, Consultant.
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, to break the baseball color barrier, changing the landscape of the game and civil rights in the United States. The Breaking Barriers educational program teaches students the values and characteristics that Jackie Robinson exhibited in his life, and how to use them to face and overcome barriers in their own lives.
Major League Baseball and Scholastic today announced Meggie Zahneis from West Chester Township, OH as the Grand Prize winner of the 2011 Breaking Barriers Essay Contest. The contest, which recognizes students for their efforts to overcome personal barriers using the values exemplified by Baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson, is a major component of Breaking Barriers: In Sports, In Life.
Major League Baseball and Scholastic Launch 2019 “Breaking Barriers: In Sports, In Life” Educational Program Honoring the Legacy of Jackie Robinson As Part of the Program, Students are Invited to Submit Original Essays about Overcoming Obstacles to the Breaking Barriers Essay Contest.
The Breaking Barriers essay contest requires students, grades 4 through 8, to submit an essay about barriers or obstacles they have faced or are still facing in their lives, and how they used the values demonstrated by Jackie Robinson to deal with those obstacles. The values are commitment, citizenship, courage, determination, excellence, justice, persistence, team work and integrity.
Asma Kaukab, left, a fifth-grader at Shaw Avenue Elementary School in Valley Stream, was a grand-prize winner in an essay contest sponsored by Major League Baseball and Scholastic publishing company.
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Major League Baseball today announced the winners of the 2004 Breaking Barriers: In Sports, In Life National Student Essay Contest. In acknowledgement of this honor, the winning students will receive a visit from Sharon Robinson, Educational Programming Consultant for Major League Baseball and daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson.
Eliza Smith, right, displays the laptop computer she won for winning grand prize in the grades 7-9 division of the national Breaking Barriers Essay Contest, which was sponsored by Major League.
Tuesday morning, in front of a packed South High auditorium, Jesse was recognized as one of 10 grand-prize winners of the 2018 Breaking Barriers: In Sports, In Life essay contest.
The Breaking Barriers educational program and essay contest was developed by Major League Baseball, Scholastic and Sharon Robinson — daughter of Jackie Robinson, MLB Educational Programming Consultant, author, and founder of the Breaking Barriers program.
