Invariably every year we have one or two kids who don’t tell the truth about how they did their work, etc. I know of one student who bragged later that he had used a copywright and it was missed (in 2005 I believe). That’s a wrong lesson to learn. Eventually karma catches up with all of us.
We are not interested in embarrassing anyone. But integrity is another word for art as I see it. We just had a student disqualified who was high up in the money! We have one who was in the 10-15 placement as well, so they really weren’t going to win any money regardless.
Wednesday we start calling teachers and parents. If the odds hold up, we might find one out of those 70 finalists who really didn’t do the work and in that case #11 becomes #10- and no one knows. 
If you did make the top 15 in each category, hopefully you’ll be lucky enough to have your teacher and your parents get a phone call from us over the next three days, because that means you were in the top ten! If no call, you did well enough to place 11-15th out of hundreds of entries.
Answer the phone!
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