Winar!!!
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
We are proud to announce that the winner of the 2008 Fetal Steve Dare to Dream Scholarship is Stephen Ferguson.
Sadly, we were underwhelmed by the tours, which seemed to be an after-thought for both participants. Both could have done a better job of framing their location with recognizable landmarks and such. Mark took a picture with the Franklin County Courthouse sign which was good, but a shot of the building outside would have been better (and probably more interesting). The ‘test tube baby’ and ‘dutch heritage’ pictures were both quite good. In Stephen’s case, without the picture titles, we would not have been able to guess his location. Mixing Fetal Steve with religious bumper stickers, however, was a very good idea.
With this in mind, our decision came down to the optional essays, which were both brilliant. Mark’s Haiku was short and succinct. It related to current events (the Japan tour), and in 17 syllables made us smile. But Stephen’s short essay allowed him to prove to us that he understood the idea behind the 601-dollar human articulated fetal skeleton.
So congratulations, Mr. Ferguson. We wish you luck in your future endeavors. And let us give you this bit of advice, as noted by Zachary: hmm the one boy seems to fear benway…… you should disrespect benway as much as possible, not fear him.