Central Unified student and teacher win trip to 9/11 Memorial in New York City

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's a portion of past existent students weren't live to see, but that isn't stopping them from learning astir it.

A Central Unified Student is present readying a travel to 9/11 memorial successful New York City and it's each acknowledgment to her creativity.

It's a coating that has much to it than the oculus tin see.

Each portion is hand-picked to correspond thing deeper.

Central High Freshman Rajkiran Kaur Jandu created the coating arsenic an eighth grader astatine El Capitan Middle School.

"Everything I tried to enactment into it, it was intentional truthful it could correspond something, if idiosyncratic had the clip to hunt it up," Rajkiran said.

She created the artwork for the 2024 One Voice Contest hosted by the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools.

The contention asked students to make works of creation that grant 1 oregon much heroes of the September 11th panic attacks and shows however the state was agreed the pursuing day.

Teacher librarian Rosemarie King was the 1 who recommended Rajkiran instrumentality portion successful the competition.

"Rajkiran was successful the room a batch successful mediate school, and I got to cognize her and spot her arsenic a fantastic student," King said.

In her 7th people year, she entered the contention and finished successful the apical 10.

In her 8th-grade year, she wanted to bash better, and she did.

At the yearly competition, she knew she made apical three, but past recovered retired she won the expansive prize.

"I was similar wow, similar retired of each these astonishing paintings excavation got the expansive prize? I was similar that's brainsick and past I felt truly blessed astir myself similar I could bash something," Rajkiran said.

Rajkiran credits her parents for helping her by critiquing her enactment and encouraging her on the way.

King says she was thrilled the expansive prize went to specified a large student.

"She was precise arrogant of the enactment and I was precise arrogant of her," King said.

As portion of the expansive prize, Rajkiran and King get a paid travel to New York City to sojourn the National 9/11 Memorial.

And contempt not being live erstwhile the attacks happened, Rajkiran reflected successful her coating what she wants the satellite to retrieve astir that time much than 20 years ago.

"Together I privation america to admit that those who risked their lives to assistance others should beryllium retrieve arsenic alongside the lost," Rajkiran read.

The 2 are readying to instrumentality their five-day, four-night travel to New York City adjacent summer.

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