Wells-Barnett High School, Portland, Ore.: “Back It Up Shakespeare - Skills-Based Learning Has Come to College” Zhi Feng Etan Kiang, age 14, Harvard-Westlake School, Los Angeles: “A Real American Military Calls for All Americans”Ĭatherine Latimer, age 16, Ida B. Ruby Jewett, age 16, Jesuit High School, Portland, Ore.: “Schools Need to Build More Bike Racks” This year’s winners explain the benefits of multigenerational living, why Gen Z should consider farming as a career, how memes allow young people to join global conversations, and why schools need to pay more attention to the millions of mixed-race students entering their classrooms.
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To consider them all, we enlisted 68 judges who worked over two months and six rounds of reading to choose the 200-plus students we honor below and via this PDF which lists all finalists.Īs always, these essays offer a window into a generation’s views on the issues that concern them most - whether problems like climate change and political dysfunction that affect us all, or teen-specific realities like school dress codes and growing up in today’s internet culture.īut, as always, they also introduce us to fresh ideas and solutions. This year, however, was one for the record books: 16,664 submissions came in, about 5,000 more than ever before.
Thanks to the many teachers who have adopted this challenge, every year we receive thousands of essays. If you’ve been following along over the nine years we’ve run our Student Editorial Contest, you know that every spring we invite middle and high school students around the world to craft opinion pieces on any topic they like - as long as they can make their arguments in 450 words or fewer.
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