Lucinda Hall’s essay for the Samsung Four Seasons of Hope contest is now in the top three out of thousands of entries. Thanks in part to the many online votes, Maharishi School has a one in three chance of winning the grand prize of $200,000 of hardware and software from Samsung and Microsoft, plus $10,000 of cash and gift awards from Direct TV and Best Buy. The School will receive at least a first prize of $50,000 hardware and software.
The final announcement will be made on March 31, at the Time Warner Center in New York. Lucinda, and Nick, Springlie, and Essa Johnson are being flown to New York as the author of the essay, and a representative, parent, and student of Maharishi School.
Lucinda said that she’s “a bit on overwhelm” from the experience, but is happy to have the chance to give something significant to the School. She looks forward to New York. Her essay is below:
O-o-h-h-m-m-m. The sound of meditating at Maharishi School? No. The whirring of the hard drives from students at work.
Jonina is using Google Earth on a biography of Thornton Wilder. Jay is making a book poster in Quark. Pasha is using blending options for digital art in Photoshop, while Dodie is reading Track Changes in Word to perfect her writing. Eric is creating graphs in Excel, but Angela is presenting a PowerPoint on Edgar Allen Poe.
Why so quiet? Switched to solid state drives? No they’re meditating. The pure state of intelligence—getting ready to go back to their computers!