The New York Times Learning Network 2021 Student Editorial Contest Finalists ( in alphabetical order by the writer's last name ) Winners America Betancourt - Leon , age 16 , Making Waves Academy , Richmond , Calif .: “ Cheap for You . Costly for the Environment . Ruiyang Chen , age 16, Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy , Shanghai : “ Fast & Furious 2021 : Sushi's Dilemma Ju Hwan Kim age 17 , UnitedWorld Collegeof SouthEast Asia - East Campus , Singapore :“ Why Singapore's “ Buildings Should be Conserved Lauren Koong, age 17, Mirabeau B. Lamar Senior High School , Houston , Texas:“ It Took a Global Pandemic to Stop School Shootings Angela Mao, age 17 and Ariane Lee, 17, Syosset High School , Syosset, N.Y.: “ The American Teacher's Plight : Underappreciated , Underpaid and Overworked Evan Odegard Pereira , age , Nova Classical Academy , Saint Paul , Minn .: For Most Latinos , Latinx Does Not Mark the Spot Norah Rami , age 17 , Clements High School , Sugar Land , Texas : “ Teach Us What We Need Shivali Vora, age 17 , St. Thomas Aquinas High School , Edison , N.J .: “ It's Just Hair Madison Xu, age 16 , Horace Mann School , Bronx , N.Y .: “ We Cannot Fight Anti - Asian Hate Without Dismantling Asian Stereotypes Sheerea Yu , age 15, University School of Nashville , Nashville , Tenn.: Save the Snow Day : Save Teenage Education ” Runners - Up Tala Areiqat , age 17 , NorthernValley RegionalHigh School at Old Tappan , Old Tappan , N.J .: How American High Schools Failed To Educate Us On Eating Disorders ” Emily Cao, age 17 Glenforest Secondary School , Mississauga, Ontario : Look on the Dark Side : The Benefits of Pessimism ” Abigail Soriano Cherith, age 17, North Hollywood High School , Los Angeles.: “ We Need More Maestras on the Podium Raquel Coren , age 18 , Agnes IrwinSchool , Bryn Mawr , Pa.: “ The White - Washingand Appropriation Behind Trendy Spirituality Asia Foland , age 14, Wellesley Middle School , Wellesley , Mass.: “ Private Prisons: It's to Take Back the Key Jun An Guo , age 17, St. George's School , Vancouver , British Columbia: “ Eat Ugly! It Might Just The New York Times Learning Network
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The New York Times Learning Network
2021Student Editorial Contest Finalists
( in alphabeticalorderby the writer's last name)
Winners
America Betancourt- Leon, age 16, MakingWaves Academy, Richmond, Calif.: “ Cheap for You.
Costly for the Environment .
Ruiyang Chen , age 16, Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy, Shanghai : “Fast & Furious2021: Sushi's Dilemma
Ju HwanKim age 17, UnitedWorld Collegeof SouthEastAsia - EastCampus, Singapore: “Why
Singapore's “ Buildings Should be Conserved
Lauren Koong, age 17, Mirabeau B. Lamar Senior High School, Houston , Texas: “ It Took a Global
Pandemic to Stop School Shootings
Angela Mao, age 17and Ariane Lee, 17, Syosset High School, Syosset, N.Y.: “ The American
Teacher's Plight: Underappreciated , Underpaid and Overworked
Evan Odegard Pereira, age , Nova Classical Academy, Saint Paul , Minn.: For Most Latinos,
Latinx Does Not Markthe Spot
Norah Rami, age 17, Clements High School, Sugar Land, Texas: “Teach Us What We NeedShivaliVora, age 17, St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Edison, N.J .: “ It's Just Hair
MadisonXu, age 16, HoraceMannSchool, Bronx, N.Y.: “ We Cannot Fight Anti-Asian Hate
Without DismantlingAsian Stereotypes
Sheerea Yu, age 15, University School of Nashville, Nashville, Tenn.: Save the Snow Day: Save
TeenageEducation”
Runners-Up
Tala Areiqat, age 17, NorthernValley RegionalHigh Schoolat Old Tappan, Old Tappan, N.J.:
How American High Schools Failed To Educate Us On Eating Disorders ”
Emily Cao, age 17 Glenforest Secondary School, Mississauga, Ontario: Look on the Dark Side:
The Benefits of Pessimism ”
Abigail Soriano Cherith, age 17, North Hollywood High School, Los Angeles.: “ We Need More
Maestrason the Podium
RaquelCoren, age 18, Agnes IrwinSchool, BrynMawr, Pa.: “ The White- Washingand
Appropriation Behind Trendy Spirituality
Asia Foland, age 14, Wellesley Middle School, Wellesley, Mass.: “ Private Prisons: It's to
Take Back the Key
Jun An Guo, age 17, St. George's School, Vancouver, BritishColumbia: “ Eat Ugly! It MightJust
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Save The World . ”
CharissaHoward, age 16, LowerMerionHigh School, Ardmore, Pa.: Why I Want to Be a Foreign
Exchange Student 30 Minutes Away"
Sean Kim age 16 Fort Lee High School, Fort Lee, N.J.: “ Classroom Monopoly: How the Same
Calculator Has Been $120 for 17 Years "
Sonya Kulkarni , age 16, Bellaire High School , Bellaire, Texas : “ Face Masks : A Roadblock in
Communication for the Hearing- Impaired
Patricia McDonald , age 16, Woodrow Wilson High School, Dallas, Texas “ The Poetry Unit : How
Our Curriculum Smothers Art
Lily Miro, age 16, The Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles, Calif.: Where are the MEN in
Menstruation ? "
Mary Schnautz , age 15, ASPIRE Academy for the Highly Gifted at Grapevine High School ,Grapevine, Texas: “ The Adverse Pitfalls of AP Classes"
NachikethanSrinivasan, age 18, The HaverfordSchool, Haverford, Pa.: “Accordingto ,
Critical Race Theory is Anti-American'. Here's the Truth .
Grace Wong, age 16, The King's Academy, Sunnyvale, Calif.: Appreciatingthe Powerof Quiet
Samantha Wu, age 15, Richard MontgomeryHigh School, Rockville, Md.: Comprehension,
Clarity, and Consistency: The Case for the Oxford Comma”
Bill Zhang, age 17, The Shanghai SMIC Private School, Shanghai: “ Cyber-athletes: The Future is
Here"
HonorableMentions
IshaniBakshi, age 12, WoodrowWilsonMiddleSchool, Edison, N.J.: A HistoryFull of Georges,
Alexanders , and Benjamins Isn't Benefiting Women
Rachel Bong, age 16, Phillips Academy Andover , Andover , Mass .: “ Our Toxic Love ... for Phones ”
Julia Buchanan , age 16, Glen Ridge High School , Glen Ridge, N.J .: “ Historical Denialism Needs to
be Absent from the Classroom
Alissa Chen, age 16 GuilfordHigh School, Guilford, Conn.: Uncoveringthe UnspokenYellow
Peril
Aruna Das, age 16, Hunter College High School, New York, N.Y .: to the Handkerchief
Quinn Dooley, age 16 Germantown Academy, Ft . Washington , Pa .: “ Everyone Deserves Equal
Olivia Fan, age 16, PlanoWest Senior HighSchool, Plano, Texas: Cry About It. Really
Maya Honda-Granirer, age 16 Sir WinstonChurchillSecondary, Vancouver, British Columbia:
American Politics Needs Less Talking and More Listening
Logan Hu, age 13 Lusher Charter School , New Orleans , La .: Why It's Our Job to Take Down
HatefulSchool Names
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Ify ljeli, age 18, GwinnettSchoolof Math, Science, andTechnology, Lawrenceville, Ga.: The
Terrifying Reality of Giving BirthWhile Black
Cheng-yu Kang, age 15, The SMIC PrivateSchool Shanghai International, Shanghai: “ Elegies:
Dealing with Death and Loss
Evelyn Li, age 14, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Va .:
Think Outside the Box of Stereotypes
Matthew Lin, age 15, The Head- Royce School , Oakland, Calif.: “ Longing for the Lemonade Standsof Investing
Stella Lin, age 16 Dougherty Valley High School, San Ramon, Calif: “ Combating ClimateCynicism ”
Cassie Liu, age 16, The Hockaday School, Dallas, Texas: Please Defund the Police: Handcuff aRacist Institution
Shaun Loh, age 17, Raffles Institution , Singapore : “ American Dream ( s) ”
Patrick Lou, age 13, The Dorris-Eaton School , San Ramon , Calif.: “Veganism the Cat- Vegan
Diets and Their Effects on Your Pets ”
Feier Ma, age 16, Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy, Shanghai: “ Dear Diary: Writing
Just Isn't Enough"Madeline Mau, age 14, West Windsor-PlainsboroHigh School North, Plainsboro, N.J.: “ Remote
Learning Failing Blind Students Leaving Us Behind
Regan Mading, age 16, Orange County School of the Arts, Santa Ana , Calif.: “ The Lack
Education Regarding Epinephrine is Nuts”
Arfa Momin , age 17, Stephen F. Austin High School, Sugar Land , Texas: “ The Woman's Pandemic
is Boldand Bald
Mia Penner, age 17, High School of American Studies at Lehman College, Bronx, N.Y.: “ Born
Again : How Gen Z Reinventing Faith and Spirituality
Kaitlyn Tchang, age 15 Castro Valley High School, Castro Valley, Calif.: “ The Quiet Strength in
Simply Not Knowing
Aaron Tighe, age 16, Patrician High School, Carrickmacross , Ireland: Don't Let Beijing
Become Berlin .
PaigeWilliams, age 18, DowningtownSTEM Academy, Downingtown, Pa.: “ It'sTime to Respect
Menstruation . Period .
ZacharyWu, age 15, NapervilleNorthHighSchool, Naperville, “ Unearthingthe Forgotten
Story of Asian America
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Zelda Abramovich, age 14, CaseyMiddleSchool, Amherst, N.Y “ Inevitable: WhyThere
Needs to Be More Female Supervillains”
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LillianAli, age 16, CentervilleHigh School, Centerville, Ohio: Raqqa, Syria: A CaseStudyIn The
Language Of War
Zoe Alsfine , age 15, The Leffell School , White Plains, N.Y.: “ Barbie : Life Outside the Dreamhouse
Michael Ashton, age 16, West Port High School , Ocala , Fla .: at Me and Assume
Tristan Atreides , age 17, Great Neck South High School , Great Neck, N.Y.: “New York Needs SafeStreets
Yasmine Azmi, age 17, Northern Valley Demarest , Demarest , N.J.: “We All Still Have Work to Do
Benjamin Balodis, age 15, Stuyvesant High School, New York , N.Y.: the Republican Party Cared
About Fiscal Responsibility, They Would Invest in Climate Action”
Laura Barbieri, age 16, Fair Lawn High School, Fair Lawn, .: “ The Lack of Importance of Body
Norms in the Ballet Industry”Hollis Belger, age 16, Redwood High School, Larkspur, Calif.: “ How Purpose will Save Gen Z and
the Rest of Us !
NayaBen -Meir, age 17, The ArcherSchool for Girls, Los Angeles: Givingthe Cold Shoulderto
DressCodes
Tyler Bennett, age 18, Ellington High School, Ellington, Conn.: “ Mom , Dad, Listen Up
Joshua Berg, age 18, Marblehead High School, Marblehead, Mass.: “Why Colleges Should
Embrace Virtual Reality for Online Learning
Abraham Borst, age 15 Ellington High School, Ellington, Conn .: The Unmentioned 32 Million -
How Food Allergies Change the Lives of Families Across America ”
Serena Brown, age 16 Evanston Township High School , Evanston , II.: Why Bill Gates Could Have
Never Been Black
Sofia Byun, age 16, Sierra Canyon High School, Chatsworth, Calif.: LetterWriting in the Age of
CovidandAlienation
Haley Casey, age 16, Hinsdale Central High School, Hinsdale, III.: “ The Biggest Hits of the 1700s”
Karan Chakravarthy, age 14, American International School Chennai , Chennai, India :
CockroachesDeserve More Respect
Avery Chang, age 16, Carroll High School, Southlake, Texas: FlexTime: The Simple Cureto an
Epidemic of Stress”
Brian Chen , age 15, The Harker School San Jose , Calif .: “ The COVID Era Ends Then What ?"Kim Cherlin , age 15, Seoul International School , Seongnam - si, Korea : “ Hagwon Craze in Korea
Begins in Kindergarten ? "
Alexandra Chernoff, age 18, Harbord Collegiate Institute, Toronto : “Why We as Individuals
Cannot be Expected to Solve Climate Change ”
Andrew Chu, age 17, The Nueva School , San Mateo , Calif. “ The Politics of Humility
Karina Chung , age 16, Hunter College High School , New York , N.Y.: “ Gen Z is Entering the
Workforce. Here'sHow We Can ConvinceWall Streetto be ClimateConscious.
Debaleena Das, age 16, and Hannah Zhang, Los Gatos High School, Los Gatos, Calif.:
Isabella Del Castillo, age 15, Kent DenverSchool Englewood, Colo.: “ The Case for Curly Hair”
Athena Deng, age 16, HinsdaleCentral High School, HinsdaleCentral, Whitewashing: Why
It's Worse Than You Think
Zander Deutch, age 12, Menlo School Atherton, Calif.: "Gerrymandering: The Unspoken
Problem DestroyingUS Democracy”
Elizabeth Dinh, age 17 Wakefield High School, Raleigh, N.C.: “ The Hate in Their HeartsAbigail Doperak, age 17, Derry Area High School, Derry, Pa .: How Even is the PlayingField ? ”
Natalie Ehrenwerth, age 17, Granby Memorial High School, Granby, Conn.: “SavingYour Skinand the Ocean ”
HavenEstabrook, age 16, MaynardHighSchool, Maynard, Mass.: Why the World Needs
Hurting the EnvironmentJuliet Fang, age 17, University High School, Fresno, Calif Breakfast Food is the World's Great
Equalizer
Davin Faris, age 15, Homeschooled , Union Bridge, Md.: Stuck - at-Home Schoolers
Sarah Fazioli , age 17, Saint Francis High School, Mountain View , Calif.: Middle Children are
UnsungLeadersLucy Finch, age 16, Coloma Convent Girls School, London: Why Positivity Could Be Your Biggest
Enemy
Lillian Franks, age 14, Talawanda High School, Oxford , Ohio: “ It's Past Time to do something
About America's Gun Problem
Annaka Freve, age 16, Hinsdale Central High School, Hinsdale, A Word on the Word
Atheist
Lucas Gottdenker, age 15, Bloomington High School South, Bloomington, Ind.: “Why Video
Games are a Form of Art ”
Alex Greenblatt, age 17, LowerMerionHighSchoolArdmore, Pa.: " CombattingStress? Pieceof
Cake!
Colin Griffin, age 16 HinsdaleCentral, Hinsdale, Why We ShouldAbolish the Two -Party
System "
Sean, age 17, Fordham Preparatory School , Bronx, N.Y .: “A Legacy of Segregation :
Continuityof Inequityin American PublicSchools”
RachelGopalani, age 15, The BaldwinSchool, Bryn Mawr, Pa.: Anti-Black Racismon Broadway:When Theatre Goes Dark”
Isha Goteti, Gale Ranch Middle School, San Ramon, Calif.: Why Trans Students Should be
Allowed to Participate in School Sports”
Ningyuan Guo, age 16, The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, Beijing:
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Women's Menstruation- Shame or Strength ?"
Vivian Guo, age 16 Prince of Wales Secondary School, Vancouver: “ Bulimia : The Plague We
Cannot See
RebeccaGuzman, age 16, Bruriah High School for Girls, Elizabeth, N.J .: Give Him A Book”
Owen Hannon, age 15 , RaleighCharter High School, Raleigh, N.C.: IdenticalTwinship: An
Existential Dilemma
MikaelaHartman, age 14, ColtsNeckHighSchool, Colts Neck, N.J “ NotSo Marvel-ous:
Marvel's Overt Negligence of Accurate Female Representation
August Hassard , age 17, Evanston Township Highschool , Evanston , “ The Danger of Letter 17
Moera Hirose , age 18, International School of the Sacred Heart , Shibuya , Tokyo :
Gender- Inclusive Fashion is the key to Progress
Elizabeth Hirschfeld, age 17, Mountain Lakes High School , Mountain Lakes, N.J.: “ Silence is Not
an OptionBrian How, age 16, Homeschool , Muar, Malaysia : “ Sadness Matters Talk About It
Evan Hsiang, age 16 Carroll High School, Southlake , Texas: Race-based Admissions =Race-conscious Anxiety”
Audrey Huang, age 18, International School of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo: “ Our First Small Steps to
Improve the Food Industry ”
Emily Irvin, age 15 Dock Mennonite Academy, Lansdale, Pa .: “ The Power of Your Smile”
Keira Izumi, age 14, Francis Parker, San Diego, Calif.: Anti- Asian Systemic Racism in America ”
Marissa Johnston , age 16, Olentangy High School , Lewis Center, Ohio: “Global Worming ”
Mariam Khan, age 15, Ridge High School, Basking Ridge, N.J.: “Unmasking the Political Facade
Behind France's Hijab Politics”
Tane Kim, age 14, Irvington Middle School, Irvington, N.Y .: “ The Next Steps for Human Gene
EditingChris Lahoti, age 17, Episcopal High School, Houston, Texas: “GPA: Going Past Absurd
Oscar Lam, age 17, Granada Hills Charter High School , Granada Hills, Calif.: “ Restaurants Need aBailout
Natasha Last- Bernal, age 15, Shorecrest High School, Shoreline, Wash .: “ Beyond Performative
Purchases : It's Time to Take Collective Action to Protect the Environment
Catherine Latimer, age 15, Ida B. Wells- Barnett High School, Portland, Ore.: “ Meme Our
America
Eric Lechpammer, age 16 The Newman School, Boston, Mass.: “Dulland Dated: Why American
State Flags Deserve a Change
Daniel Lee, age 18, Ames High School , Ames , lowa : “ The Toxic Mask of Digital Deindividuation ”
Eryn Lee, age 16, Oakville Trafalgar High School , Oakville , Canada “ The Dying Art of
Handwriting: Once Fundamentalsare Lost, Where Do We Turn?"
Emily (Yuxin) Li, age 13, York House, Vancouver: Invasive plants - Research and Caution
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QianyuLiang, age 17, ShenzhenCollegeof InternationalEducation, Shenzhen, China:
“ Mukbang: The InsidiousSpecterof BodyShapeAnxiety”
ChenzhengLiao, age 16, Beijing 101HighSchool, Beijing: “Asians Are Not A Virus, Racism Is”
Chana Lipschutz, age 18, ManhattanHighSchoolfor Girls, New York City, N.Y “ High Heels, Low
Outcomes
Samantha Liu, age 16, Ridge High School, Basking Ridge, N.J .: “ In Defense of "Mankind"
Lance Locker, age 16, Adlai E. Stevenson High School , Lincolnshire , The Scroll to Nowhere”
Louis Lopez, age 17, River Dell Regional High School , Oradell, N.J.: “ More Able Than Not
Olivia Ma, age 16, South Brunswick High School, Monmouth Junction , N.J.: “ The Model Minority
Myth: Confronting Our Compliancy in Asian American Hate
Sahand Maleki, age 13, University School, Shaker Heights, Ohio: “ The Scamming of America's
Teens
Lyla Malloy, age 16, NotreDameHighSchool, Lawrenceville, N.J.: " We Are Different. We Are
One. "
FrancescaMarino, age 16, PenfieldHigh School, Penfield, N.Y.: “ Preservingthe ArtsThrougha
Pandemic
Jose Mendoza, age 17, Fremont Christian, Fremont, Calif.: “ The Shortage of Military Working
Dogs "
Savannah Miller, age 16 The Kinkaid School , Houston , Texas: “What's Up with America's
Bilingual Problem ?"Phoebe Mitchem, age 17, Arroyo Grande High School, Arroyo Grande, Calif.: “ Kawaii-fying the
Classroom: A CharmingSolution to Student Stress?"
Amelia Morris, age 14, Francis Parker School, San Diego, Calif.: Christopher Columbus, Dr.
Suess, and False American Nationalism
Eileen Mou, age 17, Great Neck South Highschool, Great Neck, N.Y.: “A Unanimous Chant : The
Sound of ChangeIsaac, age 17, EvanstonTownship High School, Evasnton, “ The Corrupt Oligarchy within
Elementary Schools”Gabriel Musial, age 18, Quaker Valley High School, Leetsdale, Pa.: Congress Deserves a Pay
Cut : A Big One
Mia Netland, age 17, Greely High School Cumberland, Maine: “ Model Minorities in Glasshouses
(Also ) Get Pegged With Stones ”
Abigail Ng, age 16, Herricks Senior High School, Williston Park, N.Y.: “Why Queerbaiting RuinsTelevision for LGBTYouth ”
Stephanie Nodelman, age 17, W.C. Mepham High School, Bellmore, N.Y “ The Cosmos Should
be for the Common Man
Sabina Ortolan, age 15 HalfMoon Bay High School, Half Moon Bay, Calif.: “Get Down. Don't
Make a Sound. The Detrimental Impact of Lockdown Drills on Students. ”
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EojinPark, age 15, ChadwickInternationalSchool, SongdoInternationalCity, Incheon: “ The
Smell of America
Tara Prakash, age 14, Sidwell Friends , Washington, D.C.: It's Scouts, Not Boy Scouts”
Ritika Premlal, 14, High School North, Plainsboro, N.J.: “ The Government Must Put an End
to PeriodPovertyLaurenPriest, age 16 HinsdaleCentral High School Hinsdale, Covid the Final Nail in the
Coffin for the SAT and ACT ? "
Emma Puckett, age 15 Talawanda High School, Oxford, Ohio : “ The Wrath of an Internet Mob”
Kathambari Ramkumar, age 16, Memorial High School , Frisco, Texas : “ Hypocorism : What To Stop
Expecting From Ethnic Names"
Kaitlin Raskin, age 16, River Dell High School , Oradell, N.J “My Future is None of Your Business”Sophie Remisio, age 15, Ramsey High School, Ramsey, N.J.: “Why You Shouldn't Compliment
People
Addison Felix Rice, age 16 Texas Academy of Leadership in the Humanities , Beaumont , Texas:
“ How Recess Can Help Solve the Teen Mental Health Crisis
Rice, age 16, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, Denton , Texas : Dishonesty
in Politics is the New Normal Cannot Afford to Accept"
Megan Rogers, age 14, Shenendehowa High School West, Clifton Park, N.Y.: “ The Lies Of The
Recycling Industry : How It's Affected Our Planet
Rik Roy, age 16 Ellington High School , Ellington, Conn .: “ Eating Away at our Planet
Julia Ruan, age 16, Okemos High School , , Mich.: With Gene Editing, You Can Never BeToo Careful
Aarush Santoshi, age 14, “ Bergen County Academies” Hackensack, N.J.: LilNas X and Queer
Liberation in Montero (Call Me By Your Name)
PaigeSenter, age 17, South Lyon High School, South Lyon, Mich.: Do need Qualifiers to
Qualify ?Zara Sethi, age 13, J.R. Masterman Philadelphia, Pa .: "Hostile Architecture : Preventing' a Crime
that Doesn't Exist”
Anjali Seshadri, age 15, American International School Chennai, Chennai, Ind.: “ The Empathy
Expectation"Michaella Sevalie, age 17, Montgomery Blair High School, BurtonsvilleMd.: “My Complicated
Relationship With Being Called a Strong Black Woman ”
Prianca Sharan, age 13, Gale Ranch Middle School , San Ramon , Calif .: “ The Literary World's
Worst Kept Secret
Madison Shi, age 17, Oakton High School , Vienna , Va .: Hands to Heal ”
Kriti Shirodkar, age 17, Farmington High School , Farmington , Mich .: We Learned the Words
Notthe LanguagePaul Shur, age 14, Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute, Ontario: “Why the Pen is the Mightier
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Eliana Simmons , age 15, HallHigh School, West Hartford, Conn .: How Plants Can Help Us”Parker Sitzmann, age 14, Johnson Middle School , Johnson , The Unpaid Workforce
Jade, age 18 and Lauren : Arrowhead High School , Hartland , Wis.: “ The
School System Gets anYu-Chuan Sun , age 17, Kaohsiung American School Kaohsiung City, Taiwan : “ A True Solution :
Endingthe Marginalizationof African -Americans
KaitlynThick, age 16, Hinsdale Central High School, Hinsdale, .: “ The Power in Silence
Sara Varghese, age 16, River Dell Regional High School, Oradell, N.J.: “ Cursive Not JustAesthetics
Domenica Stella Toso Villanueva , age 15 Escola Americana do Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro ,
Brazil: “ No, actually, I Could Not Speak up Against My Abuser
Liana Wadhwani , age 17, Harvard-Westlake, Los Angeles, Calif.: “ On the Brink of Death
Rebecca Walker, age 17, River Dell High School, Oradell , N.J.: In Name?
Ashley Wang, age 14, Northview Highschool , Johns Creek, Ga .: Why the Model Minority ' Myth
is Actually SuffocatingAmerica's Minorities”
Jun Wang, age 17, Temporarily Home-Schooled, Daly City, Calif.: “A Vaccine that Works is not
Enough to WorkTalia Wang, age 16, Chinese International School, Hong Kong: “Cities Built Beating
Heart
Reece Watterson, age 17, Union County High School Liberty, Ind.: “Esports: A New Era of Equal
Opportunity Athletics”Hannah Weissman, age 16, Clarkstown High School North, New City, N.Y.: “Americans' Right to
Healthcare "
Madeline Witte, age 18 Highlands Ranch High School, Highlands Ranch, Colo “ Howto
ModernizeYour Yard Like a Moss”
RafaelZhanpengWu, age 16 EscolaAmericanado Rio de Janeiro, Riode Janeiro, Brazil: “When
A Zip Code Defines Your Education”
Zhikai Xia , age 16, UWC Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands: “A Round of Applause for Our
Brothers and Sisters
Kathy Xiang, age 14, Stuart Country Day School, Princeton, N.J.: “ Watch Cat Videos. I'm Not
Kitten .
LiwenXing, age 16, The ExperimentalHighSchoolAttachedto BeijingNormalUniversity, Beijing
Art that Stings: Motivation for Us to Think and Change”
Jingyue Yang, age 16, Shanghai Weiyu high school, Shanghai: “ Out of Place? The Predicament
Faced by Rural Student in College
Daniel Yeo, age 15, Hackley School , Tarrytown, N.Y.: Ditch the Homework
Young, age 14, Exeter High School , Exeter, N.H.: “ One Nation ....Under God ? "
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Anyang Yu, age 18, Ames High School, Ames, lowa: “ The Power of a ”
Morgan Yu, age 15 Hinsdale Central, Willowbrook, .: Dress Codes - Promoting Sexism for
Generations to Come
Jeffrey Yuan, age 17, River Dell Regional High School, Oradell, N.J.: When News Coverage
Becomes Counterproductive
Annabelle Zhang, age 15, Millburn Senior High School, Millburn, N.J.: Disinformation : The Virus
Without a Vaccine
Chengyue Zhang, age 16 Fay School, Southborough , Mass .: “ See the Full Me: Reclaiming Animein Asian Queer History”
Ashley Zheng, age 16, The MadeiraSchool, McLean, Va.: “Remove Media Select
AppIrene Zheng, age 14, Bellaire High School, Bellaire,Texas: “ Free Pads and Tampons for Students”Yanze " Ryan" Zhu, age 13 Rumsey Hall School, Washington Depot, Conn.: Cloning: Put Down