The building even hosts an annual essay contest for couples looking to get married on the 86th floor.

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Speakers will include the 6 young winners of the essay contest and experts in marine science.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

Watson hosted nine Brooklyn-area middle school students who won his fourth annual black history essay contest.

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In association with UNESCO and other outstanding partners, the Goi Peace Foundation organizes every year the Essay Contest for Young People.

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The Red Rover project will pick students aged 11 to 17 from around the world, starting with an essay contest to be announced this October, he said.

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Users can watch past debates, rate performances or vote in a parallel essay contest in which submissions are posted anonymously to prevent a walk-off by the better-known candidates.

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Karl Sakas had read an article in the Washington Post on hydrothermal vents several years ago, and wrote an essay which placed nationally in the duPont Challenge Essay Contest.

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The Director General met with the five laureates of the Eighth Edition of the Holocaust Essay Contest, organised by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and the Association "Verbe et Lumiere, " in presence of Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Dr. Ilya Altman, Director of the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Centre, together with Mr. Paul Schaffer, Holocaust survivor and Honorary President of Yad Vashem-France.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

International Year of Freshwater: public outreach programme, poster contest, secondary school essay comptetition , radi oprogrammes, exposition containing literature, hydrologic models, etc.

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