Posted in: Students & Educators
Wade Hampton High School senior Erin Jones was awarded $2,000 for participating in “Your Big Idea,” a scholarship contest sponsored by the South Carolina Bar Young Lawyers Division (YLD).
The contest is a part of YLD effort to enhance civic education in classrooms across the state and encourages students to get involved within their democracy. Jeanmarie Tankersley of Clawson & Staubes of Greenville represented the YLD at an awards banquet where Jones was honored.
Jones created an original response to the following prompt:
- Does the First Amendment protect a person's or business's right not to be forced to say, do or create anything expressing a message that the person or business rejects? Consider the Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission case pending before the United States Supreme Court.
Contestants were instructed to post video responses to their Instagram accounts using the hashtags #SCBarYLD and #YourBigIdea. The contest was open to all 11th and 12th grade public, private and homeschool students in South Carolina who plan to enroll in a post-secondary institution for the 2018-2019 or 2019-2020 school year.
Jones’s video tackled Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission from the plaintiff’s and defendants’ perspective.
To view Jones’s video, visit www.instagram.com/yourbigidea.
More information about Your Big Idea is available at www.scbar.org/yourbigidea.
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