Awards
2004 Awards Week in D.C.

• 2004 Awards    Week Main • Daily Pictures of   Winners' Week • Winner's Pictures    and Bios • 2004 National    Winners    Announced • Awards Banquet    Keynote Address • Sudan    Simulation • Program Webcast Archive

This year 1,200 students submitted entries to the National Peace Essay Contest—while thousands more participated in related writing and other classroom exercises in high schools around the country.

Over the years, more than 1,300 state winners have participated in the Washington Awards Week. Many of these "alumni" have gone on to study foreign policy issues in college, or have pursued careers in international affairs.

Currently, the Institute's Peace Essay Contest staff is hard at work preparing an exciting program for all the state winners during their week in Washington. Activities scheduled so far include:

• a challenging three-day simulation or "game"
• meetings with distinguished foreign policy scholars and public officials in Congress and the Administration
• opportunities to visit historic national monuments and museums here in the nation's capital
• as the culmination of the week's program, an awards banquet where all of the state winners will be honored and the national winners announced

Each year the Institute creates this special section on the website for state winners and their teachers, friends, and family to help them get a sense of what their trip to Washington will be like. The website is updated daily during Awards Week, so please check back during the week of June 21–26 to see information and photos of the students during their adventures in Washington.