2025 Haiku Contest Result

 2025 Award Winners (PDF)

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Please refer to the PDF for the judges’ comments.

M-0. Elementary 3rd and 4th graders (immersion, FLES or any program)    

あきのきょく ばさばさおちば いやしけい

Ellie Zhao (Great Falls Elementary School)

おおなみだ あたたかいすな オレンジ日

Avery Fields (Great Falls Elementary School)

かいのおと いるかがおよぐ なつやすみ

Victoria Rodriguez (Great Falls Elementary School)

M-1 Elementary 5th and 6th graders (immersion, FLES or any program)  

しろちょう そらにとびます しとやかに

Gauri Singh ( Great Falls Elementary School)

きがたかい ゆきはしずかや きつねきく

Mary Griffith (Great Falls Elementary School)

なみのおと みずがきらきら とりがとぶ

Abby Hankins (Great Falls Elementary School)

M-2 Middle school 7th and 8th graders (immersion or any program)  

冬の月 かこのおもいで 雪のあと

Brandon Ly (Lake Braddock Secondary School)

 

わかみどり しずかなしばふ よこになる

Kelsey Eaton (Lake Braddock Secondary School) 

ゆきのあさ しずかにひびく とりのこえ

Alex Maiurano (Lake Braddock Secondary School)

J-1 High school Japanese 1 equivalent (may include 8th graders)  

ふゆふかし ゆきのしたには はるがまつ

Marissa Turek (Oakton High School)

ゆきもよう ふくれてきたる ピザのみみ

Abril Rodriguez (Walt Whitman High School)

はるかぜや はなびらダンス そらのゆめ

Emma College (Hayfield Secondary School)

J-2 High school Japanese 2 equivalent  

こかげゆれ はるだきしめる ゆめのなか

Hailey Zapata-Garcia (Paint Branch High School)

電車来る 一人で立つや 冬の夜

Phillip Crowe (Lake Braddock Secondary School)

あかおちば せかいのもうふ れいきくる

Nuveena Sooriya (Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School for Government and International Studies)

J-3 High school Japanese 3 equivalent  

パンプキン かんしゃさいを ふみあるく

Ben Tiller (Falls Church High School)

春ちかし こっそり土に 芽がささやく

Alyssa Gans (Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School for Government and International Studies)

こがらしや よたかは月に かえるかな

Sophie Bester (Walt Whitman High School)

J-4 High school Japanese 4 equivalent  

春が来た 西から東 風が吹く

Kaya Hefterich (Lake Braddock Secondary School)

まっちゃのむ さっぱりにがみ はるのあじ

Christian Campos (Paint Branch High School)

J-5 High school Japanese 5 (or higher) equivalent  

天 

桜散る 別れの時や 青春よ

Henry Perng (Ocean Lakes High School)

種生える 子供のように 咲く命

Jonah Cline (Oakton High School)

 

七夕に 願うは世界の 平和なり

Yuuki Miyake (Walt Whitman High School)

C-2 College 200 level  

太陽で 溶けゆく我と かき氷

Helen Cecile Nowatka (Georgetown University)

思い出は 波の上消え また戻る

Alex Hershon (The George Washington University)

ふいに舞ふ 桜の花びら 頬を打つ

Mary Black (Georgetown University)

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