Fremont 9th Grader Wins Bookmark Contest

Roujia Guo, a ninth-grader at Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, won first place in the high school division of the Coretta Bookmark Design Contest. (fremontunified.org) Fremont Unified School District announced the result on April 7, 2026, and said Guo’s entry finished first out of more than 2,000 submissions. (fremontunified.org) The district said judges picked Guo’s bookmark as the top design in the high school category, giving Fremont a winner in a contest that drew entries from a large student field. (fremontunified.org) The award adds to a run of student arts recognition in Fremont, where schools and local groups have continued to promote youth creative work through contests, exhibitions, and public showcases. (fremontunified.org, fremontculturalartscouncil.org, fremont.gov) Bookmark contests are a simple format for that work: students turn reading themes or cultural themes into small, printable art that libraries and schools can reproduce and hand out. Alameda County Library is running its 2026 Día Bookmark Contest from April 1 through May 1, with winning designs set to appear in a future bookmark giveaway. (aclibrary.org, aclibrary.org) Mission San Jose High School also posted the honor in its school news feed, identifying Guo as a ninth-grade student and repeating that she won first place in the Coretta contest. (fremontunified.org) Patch highlighted the win in its Fremont coverage, bringing wider local attention to a school arts award that might otherwise have stayed inside district channels. (patch.com, msn.com) For Fremont schools, the result is concrete: one freshman’s design beat more than 2,000 entries, and her name is now attached to a regional student arts win before the school year is out. (fremontunified.org)