YSU English Festival

Each year, Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, sponsors the English Festival. This unique, annual program reaches approximately 3,000 junior and senior high school students from Mahoning, Trumbull, and Columbiana counties in Ohio, and Mercer and Lawrence counties in Pennsylvania, their teachers and parents, area librarians, and other members of the community who are interested in promoting and cultivating reading and writing. To attend, students from nearly 200 middle and high schools, read seven books, and teachers monitor their reading progress throughout the year. This channel was created primarily to showcase the Jeremy Salvner Memorial Music Awards, established by Gary, Kathy, and Matthew Salvner in memory of their late son and brother Jeremy. Prizes are awarded to students attending the English Festival for original musical compositions inspired by one or more books on the English Festival list. We have added photographs from the Festival events to the compositions.