Girl, Sara Hinsley, Born Without Hands Wins Handwriting Competition
A 10-year-old girl, Sara Hinsley, has made news worldwide after she had an audacious win in a National Handwriting Competition. Parents and educators have been worrying about the “dying art” of handwriting for years, as smartphones and laptops have led some classrooms to spend less and less time on teaching the fine art of writing in cursive.
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Sara Hinsley, a third-grade student in Frederick, Md., though, finds writing cursive “kind of easy”, she remains an inspiration because she used her cursive skills to win a national handwriting competition despite having no hands.
Hinsley, who writes by holding her pencil between the ends of her arms, was trained in the fine art of penmanship by her teacher and quickly learned to love writing.
“She can do just about anything — oftentimes better than me or my husband,”
her mother, Cathryn Hinsley, told CNN.
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Hinsley entered the 2019 Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest, and the judges were so impressed with her perfect penmanship that she won the Nicholas Maxim Award, which is given to an entrant with a physical, developmental, or intellectual disability.
The award comes with a trophy and $500 in prize money as well as $500 in educational materials for her school.
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