PRESS RELEASE
The Genocide Education Project
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Contact: Sara Cohan – sarac@genocideeducation.org
THE GENOCIDE EDUCATION PROJECT ANNOUNCES THE CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR ITS
AHARONIAN AWARD
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San Francisco, CA, March 25, 2007 – The Genocide Education Project is
pleased to announce the Call for Entries for the 2007 Aharonian Award.
The Aharonian Award recognizes and rewards a secondary level educator
who has developed a particularly effective lesson plan for teaching the
Armenian Genocide. The lesson plan must have been used in a classroom
during the current academic year and will be selected by a panel of
educators.
This is the second year that a national award has been offered to
secondary level educators who teach about the Armenian Genocide. Last
year’s winner, Ron Levitsky of Illinois, was the recipient of the award
with his lesson plan – Send Messages of Hope: Postage Stamps and the
American Response to the Armenian Genocide. Levitsky is a educator
dedicated to teaching about genocide and has been an ardent supporter of
the Illinois mandate regarding genocide education.
"We are looking forward to reading another set of outstanding lesson
plans this year," stated Raffi Momjian, Executive Director of The
Genocide Education Project. He continued "It was exhilarating to see how
teachers were incorporating this important subject into their classrooms."
The deadline for the award is June 1, 2007 and the full criteria for
entering a lesson plan can be found at
The recipient will receive a $500 award, resources on the Armenian
Genocide for him/herself and the affiliated institution’s library, and
the publication of the lesson plan on
For additional information, contact The Genocide Education Project at
(415) 264-4203 or info@GenocideEducation.org.
The Genocide Education Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
that assists educators in teaching about human rights and genocide,
particularly the Armenian Genocide, by developing and distributing
instructional materials, providing access to teaching resources and
organizing educational workshops.