Caroline Nelson, a student from Ann Gilbert’s class at Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bellevue won Honorable Mention in the 7th and 8th grade art category in the 2010 Jacob Friedman Holocaust Writing and Art Contest.

Her art piece was one of 750 entries that dealt with the question: How would your life be different if people were more respectful and tolerant of each other’s differences? How does change begin with you?

The contest was sponsored by the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center

Caroline’s explained her art work as follows:

“All these girls helped me take this picture. It took plenty of planning, but we all got together to take the picture.

What if the world did that? If the whole world got together to help another country, I would think that, by rising as one, we’d fix that country’s problem.

I asked several girls what their main heritage was. I wrote the names of all the different [heritages] onto shirts.

I was amazed by how many different [ones] we had at our school. I was amazed how all of them were my friends. That’s how change starts with me.”

Caroline will be presented with a prize and recognition for her work at an awards ceremony in Seattle on May 23.