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Center, Amber Hamilton, 12, holds a city map that helped her find the Democratic National Convention center in New York City. Hamilton, then a fifth grader at Avis Elementary School, won the trip as one of 40,000 contestants in a competition sponsored by Weekly Reader. To her right is her teacher Ms. Lucy Black and on the right is Hamilton’s mother who accompanied her on her trip to the big apple.
Center, Amber Hamilton, 12, holds a city map that helped her find the Democratic National Convention center in New York City. Hamilton, then a fifth grader at Avis Elementary School, won the trip as one of 40,000 contestants in a competition sponsored by Weekly Reader. To her right is her teacher Ms. Lucy Black and on the right is Hamilton’s mother who accompanied her on her trip to the big apple.


