Education

Beaufort County high school student wins national award for photo taken after Hurricane Matthew

Posted by Liz Farrell

lfarrell@islandpacket.com
Sarah Sugg, a senior at Hilton Head Island High School, has been awarded a silver medal in the national Alliance for Young Artists & Writers contest for a photo she took of her grandfather in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew.
Sarah Sugg, a senior at Hilton Head Island High School, has been awarded a silver medal in the national Alliance for Young Artists & Writers contest for a photo she took of her grandfather in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. Sarah Sugg Submitted

Hilton Head Island High School senior Sarah Sugg has won a silver medal from the national Alliance for Young Artists & Writers for a photo she took of her grandfather outside his Hilton Head house in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew last year.

The photo, titled “Paul Meets Matthew,” was among 330,000 works of art and writing that were submitted to the 2017 Scholastic Art & Writing contest. Fewer than 1 percent of contestants were recognized in a total of 29, which include poetry, photography, sculpture, humor, editorial cartoons and video game design.

Sugg is one of only four students from the Beaufort County School District to win an award from the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers in the nonprofit’s 94-year history. At the end of last year, this same photo was chosen by National Geographic to be one of its Daily Dozen photos on its website.

This story was originally published March 16, 2017 at 10:49 AM with the headline "Beaufort County high school student wins national award for photo taken after Hurricane Matthew."

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