Six students from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools received awards in the Orange County Human Relations Commission’s 2008 Student Essay Contest.
Contest winners were: Sophie To, Phillips Middle School; Ria Das, Julia Haines and Matthew Dayton, McDougle Middle School; and Emma Foss-McNairy and Kate Holcomb, Chapel Hill High School.
This year’s essay topic was “Bullying in the School System and the Community.†Winners were honored at the 2008 Pauli Murray Awards on Feb. 22.