List of Winners

<Children's category (ages up to 15)>

1st Prize (1 entrant)
    Harmony is My World
Anastasia Rakava (Belarus, Age 11)

2nd Prize (2 entrants)
    Harmony
Mariam Tazeem (Pakistan, Age 11)
    What is Harmony?
        Akane Ueda (U.S.A., Age 9)

3rd Prize (5 entrants)
    What to Succeed to the Future
        Takuma Okubo (Japan, Age 15)
    Harmony
        Munam Arshad (Pakistan, Age 11)
    Harmony
        Ulfath Nizar (Sri Lanka, Age 15)
    A Small World
        Maho Saito (Canada, Age 12)
    Harmony
        Rida Fatima (Pakistan, Age 12)

Honorable Mention (25 entrants)
        Fatima Ahmed (Pakistan, Age 9)
        Samantha Karlin (U.S.A., Age 10)
        Aliona Yefimova (Lithania, Age 10)
        Sneha Shah (U.S.A., Age 11)
        Dasha Komisaruck (Belarus, Age 12)
        Masha Korshunova (Belarus, Age 12)
        Yuki Sano (Vietnam, Age 12)
        Yuka Hamamura (U.S.A., Age 12)
        Rhoda-Jane Ilave (Papua New Guinea, Age 13)
        Junichi Nishi (Japan, Age 13)
        Cole Brian (U.S.A., Age 13)
        Yurina Ichikawa (Canada, Age 14)
        Wang Mei Yi (China, Age 14)
        Yumiko Okazaki (Italy, Age 14)
        Miho Takahashi (Venezuela, Age 14)
        Sara Rasul Bangash (Pakistan, Age 14)
        Elias Ezequiel Romero Farias (Chile, Age 14)
        Kate Pobortseva (Belarus, Age 14)
        Naomi Erlewine (U.S.A., Age 15)
        Umara Alam (Pakistan, Age 15)
        Yasith Udara (Sri Lanka, Age 15)
        Madoka Oki (Tokyo, Age 15)
        Zachariah Khadudu Odhiambo (Kenya, Age 15)
        Zain Khalid (Pakistan, Age 15)
        Annabel Sawer (U.S.A., Age 15)

<Youth category (ages 16-25)>

1st Prize (1 entrant)
    Harmony
Liat Margalit (Israel, Age 18)

2nd Prize (2 entrants)
    Harmony on Earth: A True Magnum Opus
Allison Zbicz (U.S.A., Age 18)
    Generations of Harmony for the 21 Century
Dario D'Andrea (Italy, Age 18)

3rd Prize (5 entrants)
    Harmony and EXPO 2010
        Shi Jia Yu (China, Age 18)
    What is Harmony? What is Peace?
        Kuniko Wada (Japan, Age 17)
    Harmony
        Kaluachchi Gedara Lasanthi Manjula Bandara (Nepal, Age 16)
    Harmony
        Ornwipa Rugkhla (Australia, Age 22)
    Harmony
        Irene Kabura Gakaho (Kenya, Age 24)

Honorable Mention (21 entrants)
        Yuri Asada (U.K., Age 15)
        Fang Lei (China, Age 15)
        Tatiana del Carmen Gomez Coronado (Panama, Age 16)
        Susan Marion Robertson (Canada, Age 16)
        Divya Vaze (Hong Kong, Age 17)
        Jacqueline Paulina Herrera Carrasco (Chile, Age 17)
        Natalie Gvozdikova (Belarus, Age 17)
        McKenzie Kehoe (Canada, Age 17)
        Andrea Susoliakova (Slovakia, Age 17)
        Anton Adriana Diana (Romania, Age 17)
        Katie Firth (Canada, Age 17)
        Rafael Belfor Rios Munoz (Chile, Age 17)
        Mao Ya Min (China, Age 17)
        Saurabh B. Singanapalli (India, Age 19)
        Sara Meshino (Japan, Age 19)
        Yumiko Ito (Japan, Age 21)
        Aya Okada (Japan, Age 21)
        Kaoru Goto (Japan, Age 21)
        Noriko Ando (Japan, 22)
        Daisuke Karakama (Japan, Age 22)
        Evguenia Malaia (Russia, Age 23)

<Best School Award >
        O.P.F. Girls College (Pakistan)
        Musashino Higashi Junior High School (Japan)

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