Poster Contest 2008

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Poster Contest 2008

Welcome to the TESL Ontario Poster Contest Page. Big congratulations to this year's winners:

	Grand Winner Gordon (Kuo Yin) Lin Markham

First Runner-Up Desislava Stefanova Dineva Mississauga	Second Runner-Up Seung-A Yang London	Third Runner-Up Jenny Patricia Maquillon Toronto
A sincere appreciation must be extended to our judges Antanas Sileika and Olivia Chow who took time from their busy schedules to participate in selecting the successful entrants. I would like to thank all the contestants for sending their entries. Your work is important to us and is a testament to the work that you and your teachers and instructors do to achieve your goals. We will be exhibiting as many of the other posters received as possible in the City Hall Rotunda during conference time. City Hall is just across the street from the Sheraton Hotel and the posters will be available for public viewing throughout the three conference days. All conference registrants are also invited to attend the President’s Reception on Thursday night which will be held in the City Hall Rotunda. Be sure to check out further details on this website in the fall! Enjoy! Sheila Carson President
The judging of the 39 poster contest submissions took place at the TESL Ontario offices. We were thrilled to be able to enlist the services of Antanas Sileika and Olivia Chow who kindly agreed to participate in the judging. Sharon Rajabi, our Past President, was also present for the judging, as well as Renate Tilson, TESL Ontario’s Executive Director.
Antanas Sileika is a freelance broadcaster and magazine and newspaper writer as well as a fiction writer. His work has appeared on CBC radio and in publications from Saturday Night to the Globe and Mail. He lives in Toronto and teaches at Humber College.
Olivia Chow was elected as the NDP Member of Parliament for Trinity-Spadina in downtown Toronto in 2006 and is the NDP’s Advocate for Children and Youth as well as a member of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration.
It was not an easy feat to come up with a winner and three runners-up out of all the wonderful images we have received, and we wish to thank our judges for a difficult job well done. Our thanks go to all of the participants in this poster contest and we will display as many posters as possible in the City Hall Rotunda display area during the three days of the TESL Ontario Conference, November 13, 14, and 15, 2008. Many thanks go to our photographer, Kim Flowers.