Juliette Lynch won the Alexia student competition with a proposal to document the difficulties teenage girls have growing up in today's society, even in upper middle class communities.

Lynch is a senior photojournalism major at Syracuse University and is from Skaneateles, N.Y. She has been a photo intern at the Cape Cod Times and an Education Intern at the International Justice Mission in Washington, D.C. Lynch is awarded a full tuition scholarship to study photojournalism at Syracuse University in London in the Fall of 2010, plus a $1000 cash grant to help produce her project.

Second place student winner Muhammad Murtada, from Dhaka, Bangladesh, has a degree in commerce, and is now in his third year for a degree in photojournalism from Pathshala, the South Asian Institute for Photography. Murtada is awarded a half tuition scholarship to study photojournalism at Syracuse University in London in the Fall of 2010, plus a $500 cash grant to help produce his project.

Award of Excellence winners are Ryan Henriksen, a senior at Ohio University; Cody Duty, a senior at Western Kentucky University; and Diego James Robles, a senior at Ohio University. Each Award of Excellence winner receives a $1600 scholarship that pays part of tuition, fees and living expenses to study photojournalism in London in the fall semester at Syracuse University in London and a $500 cash grant to help produce their proposed stories.

Henriksen, from Oswego, Ill., who will receive a degree in photojournalism in June, has an Associates degree in Visual Journalism from Brooks Institute. He has interned at the Virginian-Pilot and the Athens (Ohio) Messenger.

Duty, from Decatur, Texas, is a senior photojournalism major at Western Kentucky University. He has interned at the Dallas Morning News, the Austin-American Statesman, and the Lincoln Journal Star.

Robles is a senior at Ohio University majoring in photojournalism. He has interned at The Orange County Register and the Rochester N.Y. Democrat & Chronicle.

Each Award of Excellence winner receives a $1600 scholarship that pays part of tuition, fees and living expenses to study photojournalism in London in the fall semester at the Syracuse University London Centre and a $500 cash grant to help produce their proposed stories. 54 students applied to the competition this year. The judging was done at Syracuse University on Feb. 20, 2010. The judges were Tom Kennedy, of Kennedy Multimedia; Pam Chen, senior editor for photography and multimedia for the Open Society Institute; and Patty Reksten, director of photography at the Portland Oregonian.