Student Essay Winners

Earlier in the semester, our technology department shared this video (entitled "A Day Made of Glass") with our school corporation.  In this intriguing video, students witnessed a plethora of innovative ways technology was changing the face of the future.  We watched it together in my language arts classes, and I was amazed not only by the material presented, but by the insights students then shared.  Because the technology department had also challenged students to write an essay for a competition, I encouraged them to put their ideas and opinions into writing.

Boy, did they ever!

I selected a handful of my favorites to submit to the contest, and three of my students ultimately tied for the win!  In addition, several more earned honorable mentions.  As a reward, I am publishing the three winning essays on my blog, along with sharing the names of the runners-up from my classes.  I appreciate the technology department for being willing to inspire our students, and I applaud my students for generating such unique essays.

Winners:

Becca, Period 6

Maggie, Period 6

Rebekah, Period 6

Honorable Mentions:

Madison, Period 6

Kelsey, Period 6

Hallee, Period 1

Hailey, Period 2

Becca's Essay
These inventions seem amazing!  Everyday life would be much more sufficient and easier.  The ideas are incredible!  The flexible display glass really caught my attention.  To be able to carry around something so minute, but for it to hold so much data is remarkable.  I would love to have one.  I could do my homework, display pictures, and many other things, with just a microscopic, portable device.

These inventions would work terrifically in a classroom.  The portable display glass could replace all of our books and anything we do online.  Even the LCD television glass would work.  You could replace the chalk and white boards with them.  It would also make the class much more interactive.  The work surface display glass would make grading papers and looking up grades easier for teachers as well.

I can see these devices being very useful in the future.  Life will be so much easier.  I can't wait for the near future and hope to see these inventions in it!

Maggie's Essay
This idea of glass is very intriguing, and most people probably had no idea anything like this even existed.  I had no idea that something as simple and basic as glass could hold so much use.  People wouldn't even remember what it was like before glass electronics.

What intrigued me most was the flexible display glass.  You could design your own home that way.  There could be electronic blueprints, and you could view them at different angles.  When I saw it, I had to do a double-take.  Did I really just see that?  I had to do that with about everything in this video, though.  Just about all of these things could have some use in a lot of situations.

In school, people could build computers made of glass into the desks.  That would save space and time.  The boards might also be made of glass some day.   I could believe that eventually, they may have glass electronic music stands, in which the music is programmed in for you.  These are just a few examples.  There are many ways that this could become our future in school, and in life.

Rebekah's Essay
The whole idea is pretty unique.  To think that less than twenty years ago cell phones were just coming out to the general population and now people are making glass technology.  Thomas Edison would be astonished by what we have accomplished!

My favorite part about "A Day Made of Glass" was the portable display glass.  It would be handy, so you didn't have to lug around five textbooks.  Also, you could carry around a  year's worth of A.R. books in it.  The flexible display glass was also an intriguing idea.  It would be cool to have something like that when you do group projects.

Photogenic glass would be more reliable than the wall clocks because all classrooms would have the same time, unlike the clocks that are always off a couple of minutes or, in Mrs. Smith's case, an hour.  I cannot wait for this day in age to come around and help humanity take another leap into the future.