Each year, The Neersyde presents awards to students who exhibit excellence in several artistic categories. These Insyde Awards (named because the inaugural award winner’s names and work were published “inside” the pages of The Neersyde when it was a printed publication) were given to the top three individuals in the following categories this year: artwork, photography, poetry, and short story. The awards were presented during the year’s final assembly on May 29. The following is a list of this year’s winners:

Artwork

1st Place: Priscilla Lambert – “Ms. Gleason as a Pokémon”
2nd Place: Emma Shirzad – “Parrot”
3rd Place: Scott Pignataro – “Sun”

Poetry

1st Place: Danny Rexroad – “Acceptance”
2nd Place: Nicolas Lama – “Music Is”
3rd Place: Priscilla Lambert – “That Cliche Love Song”

Photography

1st Place: Sam Fox – “9/11 Memorial”
2nd Place: Samantha Sweeney – “Eiffel Tower”
3rd Place: Morgan Turner – “Shells on the Beach”

Short Story

1st Place: Alina Pimentel – “Can’t Save Myself”
2nd Place: Olivia Cornett, Samantha Ende, Molly Fried, and Madeline Hart – “The First Day”
3rd Place: Julian DiFilippo – “The Virus”

Each first-place winner received a Cobb Theater gift card and a box of Sour Patch Watermelon candy. Second and third-place winners received small bags of assorted sweets.

There was also a short film category, but there were too few entries to merit awards. However, special recognition went to eighth graders Hunter Bracci, Jack Poncy, Jack Spingarn, and Axel Schultz for producing the faux trailer for the fictitious feature-length film, The Benjamin Unicorn Project. The trailer, an extra-credit project in Mr. Crisafi’s Intro. to Film/TV course, was made in the vein of the documentary-style The Blair Witch Project and was screened at the assembly.

Congratulations to all of this year’s winners and participants!