Past Winners

2017 - Drew Petersen
2013 - Sean Chen
2009 - Grace Fong
2009 - Adam Golka
2006 - Stephen Beus
2006 - Spencer Myer
2003 - Thomas Rosenkranz
2003 - Michael Sheppard
2000 - Ning An
2000 - Christopher Taylor
1997 - Derison Duarte
1997 - Hiroko Kunitake
1997 - Peter Miyamoto
1995 - James Giles
1995 - Anthony Molinaro
1995 - J.Y. Song
1993 - Adam Kent
1993 - Nicholas Roth
1993 - Lori Sims
1991 - Timothy Bozarth
1991 - Anthony Padilla
1991 - Daniel Shapiro
1989 - Jonathan Bass
1989 - Brian Ganz
1989 - Stephen Prutsman
1987 - Diane Hidy
1987 - Philip Hosford
1987 - Nelson Padgett
1985 - Frederic Chiu
1985 - R. Clipper Erickson
1985 - Dmitry Rachmanov
1983 - Philip Bush
1983 - John Salmon
1983 - Michael Lewin
1981 - Glenn Sales
1981 - Sara Davis Buechner
1981 - Jonathan Shames

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