Congratulations to one of our own Cen10 News writers for placing second for her opinion piece, Emoji Mania! Senior Laura Nicolescu has been on the Cen10 News staff for four years acting as website co-editor-in-chief for three.

Her story, Emoji Mania, is a satirical look at our technology-obsessed lives as we advance in our means of communication–or digress to our primitive ways using pictures for words.