Congratulations to all the students who submitted a poem, and to all the teachers who encouraged the event!
These are the 2025 finalists in grade and then alpha order:
Please come to the live event on March 28 to hear some poetry and to learn who were awarded the top three in each age group!
| Grade | Author | Poem Title | School | Teacher |
| 1 | Aegon Bryant | The Wind and the Beetle | Bedford Hills Elementary | Chantelle Deddens |
| 1 | Sher Chaudhry | Shooting Stars | Bedford Hills Elementary | Chantelle Deddens |
| 1 | Zoe Hortiatis | One Spring Night | Paul Munro Elementary | Alison Cox |
| 1 | Jackson Justus | The Hunting Lion | Bedford Hills Elementary | Chantelle Deddens |
| 1 | Theodore Lehman | From Slow to Fast | Bedford Hills Elementary | Chantelle Deddens |
| 1 | Brantley Neal | Football Power | Bedford Hills Elementary | Chantelle Deddens |
| 1 | JJ Nesbitt | Swim Fish Swim | Paul Munro Elementary | Alison Cox |
| 1 | Jaxton Packer | Watching the Moon | Bedford Hills Elementary | Chantelle Deddens |
| 1 | Ben Schewel | Oh Tree | Paul Munro Elementary | Alison Cox |
| 1 | Eliza Shifflett | The Best Mammal | Paul Munro Elementary | Alison Cox |
| 1 | Jane Sigler | Spring Changes | Paul Munro Elementary | Alison Cox |
| 1 | Jahceer Thaxton | Catfish | Paul Munro Elementary | Alison Cox |
| 2 | Azarria Strange | Science Haiku to Dr. Johnson | Dearington Elementary School for Innovation | Tawanda Johnson |
| 4 | Donovan Kitts | T-Rex | Dearington Elementary School for Innovation | Tawanda Johnson |
| 4 | Aleena Syed | Ocean | Paul Munro Elementary | Martha Clark |
| 4 | Maggie Wheeler | What Clouds Do You See? | Temperance Elementary | N/A |
| 5 | Drew Carpenter | Pretty Pollinators | Paul Munro Elementary | Van Hoffman |
| 5 | Haven Collier | The Blaze | Paul Munro Elementary | Van Hoffman |
| 5 | TRUE Geisland | The Rat | Homeschool | N/A |
| 5 | Marlena Horsely | Electricity is My Love | WM Bass Elementary | Jessica Davis |
| 5 | Annalena Jansen | Delightful Division | Paul Munro Elementary | Van Hoffman |
| 5 | Claire Knapp | The Spin Sisters | Paul Munro Elementary | Van Hoffman |
| 5 | Skylar Ragland | Nebular | Concord Elementary | N/A |
| 5 | Cong Ren | Science in Action | Linkhorne Elementary | Kara Byrne |
| 5 | Ana Maria Schewel | The world of a line | Paul Munro Elementary | Van Hoffman |
| 6 | Eleanor Fontaine | Ocean melody | Linkhorne Middle | Laura Beck |
| 6 | Kaitlyn Nordquist | Inertia | Altavista Combined | Andrea Rice |
| 6 | Jack Sorensen | what do you see? | Linkhorne Middle | Laura Beck |
| 7 | Jennifer Asanache | Oh, How I Love the Moon | Linkhorne Middle | Gigi Sweeney |
| 7 | Adele Geisland | The Seed | Homeschool | N/A |
| 7 | Luke Hartman | Earth | Linkhorne Middle | Gigi Sweeney |
| 7 | Cedric Mitchell | the life of a satellite | Linkhorne Middle | Gigi Sweeney |
| 7 | Emirah Smith | The Elements of Change | Sandusky Middle | Breahna Harris |
| 7 | Lillian Stevens | The Symphony of Science | Sandusky Middle | Breahna Harris |
| 8 | Ariadne Mayberry | When I Was Young (Now That I’m Older.) | Linkhorne Middle | Katie Cyphert |
| 8 | Mary McCloskey | The Life on this Earth | Linkhorne Middle | Katie Cyphert |
| 8 | Piper Pettyjohn | Cancer | Linkhorne Middle | Katie Cyphert |
| 8 | Lily Sackett | Cheeraction | Linkhorne Middle | Katie Cyphert |
| 9 | Mia Galbraith | Solar Ways | EC Glass High | N/A |
| 9 | Sadie Hageman | Cycles Within The Natural World | EC Glass High | Tressie Norton |
| 9 | Brylee Holland | The Depths | Jefferson Forest High | N/A |
| 9 | Sophia Maulbeck | There’s So Much More | Altavista Combined | Andrea Rice |
| 9 | A’imillah Miller | Bond of friendships | EC Glass High | Tressie Norton |
| 9 | Avery Wiebe | New Light | EC Glass High | Tressie Norton |
| 10 | Colleen Crosby | The Endless Ballet of a Water Lilly | Amherst County High | N/A |
| 10 | Lucy Guzlowski | The Fossils of Childhood | EC Glass High | Tressie Norton |
| 10 | Samantha Irby | Ever Upward | Onward Christian Academy | Adria Day |
| 10 | Georgia Miller | On Artificial Intelligence | Amherst County High | Jonathan Olmstead |
| 11 | Addison Elbrecht | The disease (Alzheimers) that slowly kills | EC Glass High | Tressie Norton |
| 12 | Albert-Quinzy Bateman | Perseverance in Time | EC Glass High | Tressie Norton |
| 12 | Leighton Nelson | Los Angeles Wildfires | EC Glass High | N/A |