{"id":1185,"date":"2025-06-12T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:08:48","slug":"garden-club-youth-essay-contest-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/garden-club-youth-essay-contest-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Club Youth Essay Contest Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to Sarvesh Ram Sankarnarayan of Brookfield High School who won first place in The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut, Inc. 2024-2025 Youth Essay Contest and first place in the New England Garden Clubs Regional 2024-2025 Youth Contest for his essay: Innovative Solutions for Plastic Waste: From Pollution to Progress. The youth contest was announced and sponsored by National Garden Clubs. On Thursday, June 4, club Vice-president Norma Jean Macauto was pleased to meet with Sarvesh and his science teacher, Heather Biancheri, to present him with the two certificates.\u00a0 Well done, Sarvesh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-a98dacc7-3474-404e-803d-7205647879cf\" href=\"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Sarvesh-Essay-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><kbd>Click here to read Sarvesh's winning essay<\/kbd><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SRR-Essay-Award-edited-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SRR-Essay-Award-edited-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SRR-Essay-Award-edited-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SRR-Essay-Award-edited-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SRR-Essay-Award-edited-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SRR-Essay-Award-edited-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Sarvesh Ram Sankarnarayan of Brookfield High School who won first place in The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut, Inc. 2024-2025 Youth Essay Contest and first place in the New England Garden Clubs Regional 2024-2025 Youth Contest for his essay: Innovative Solutions for Plastic Waste: From Pollution to Progress. The youth contest was announced &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/garden-club-youth-essay-contest-winner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Garden Club Youth Essay Contest Winner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,9,13,12],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fgcct","tag-garden-club","tag-negc","tag-ngc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}