Congratulations to Ignite creative writing student Chance Lang, who won a third place award in the 2010 Torrance Legacy Creative Writing Awards for his poem "Space"! Chance was awarded third place for poetry in grades 6 through 8, selected from more than 350 submissions by students worldwide.

The Torrance Legacy Creative Writing Awards is an international creative writing competition, started in 2009 to honor Dr. E. Paul Torrance. Dr. Torrance is known throughout the world as the “father of creativity” and he dedicated his life’s energies toward developing ways to assess creativity in children and adults. His nearly 60 years of research has become the platform from which much of the research in the field of gifted education is based. Ignite will announce the topics and information for the 2011 contest as soon as it comes out.