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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

Peaceof Mind; Gender Imbalancein ConcussionResearch”

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

Round4 Finalists

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.:

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ModifyingHighSchoolCurriculato CombatGenderDisparitiesin ComputerScience”

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

Introverts"

HopeFalon- MazerandLisa Lam, ages18, CheltenhamHigh School, Wyncote, Pa.: “Your Deathis

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

Sara Morris, age 17, The Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles, Calif “ Our Unhealthy Obsession

with MentalHealthis HarmingGen- Z : Has the De- stigmatizationof MentalHealth

Stigmatized Normal Emotions?"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, III.: “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 QueerbaitingRuinsTelevision for LGBTYouth ”

Stephanie Nodelman, age 17, W.C. Mepham High School, Bellmore, N.Y.: “ The Cosmos Should

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SabinaOrtolan, age 15 HalfMoonBay HighSchool, HalfMoonBay, Calif.: “Get Down. Don't

Make a Sound. The Detrimental Impact of Lockdown Drills on Students.”

Eojin Park, age 15, Chadwick International School, Songdo International City, Incheon : “ The

Smell of America

Tara Prakash, age 14, Sidwell Friends School, Washington , D.C .: “ It's Scouts, Not Boy Scouts”

Ritika Premlal, age 14, High School North, Plainsboro, N.J “ The Government Must an End

to PeriodPovertyLaurenPriest, age 16, HinsdaleCentral High School Hinsdale, Is Covid the Final Nail in the

Coffin for the SAT and ACT ?"

Emma Puckett, age 15 Talawanda High School , Oxford , Ohio “ The Wrath of 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 BusinessSophie Remisio , age 15 Ramsey High School , Ramsey, N.J .: “ 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 PlanetJulia Ruan , age 16, Okemos High School , Okemos , Mich .: With Gene Editing, You Can Never Be

Too Careful”

Aarush Santoshi, age 14, “BergenCountyAcademies” Hackensack, N.J.: “ Lil Nas X and Queer

Liberation in Montero(Call Me By YourName)

PaigeSenter, age 17, South Lyon High School, South Lyon, Mich needQualifiersto

Qualify ? "Zara Sethi, age 13, J.R. Masterman, Philadelphia, Pa .: “HostileArchitecture: Preventing Crime

that Doesn't Exist”

Anjali Seshadri, age 15, American International School Chennai, Chennai, Ind.: “ The Empathy

ExpectationMichaella Sevalie, age 17, Montgomery Blair High School , Burtonsville Md.: "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”

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KritiShirodkar, age 17, FarmingtonHigh School, Farmington, Mich.: " We LearnedtheWords,

Not the LanguagePaul Shur, age 14, Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute, Ontario: “Why the Pen is the Mightier

Sword ”

Eliana Simmons, age 15, Hall HighSchool, West Hartford, Conn.: HowPlantsCan Help Us

ParkerSitzmann, age 14, JohnsonMiddleSchool, Johnson, The UnpaidWorkforce

Jade, age 18 and Lauren: ArrowheadHigh School, Hartland, Wis.: “ The

School System Gets an F

Yu-Chuan Sun, age 17, KaohsiungAmerican School KaohsiungCity, 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

DomenicaStella Toso Villanueva, age 15 EscolaAmericanado Rio de Janeiro, Riode Janeiro,

Brazil : “ No, actually, 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 ActuallySuffocatingAmerica's Minorities”

Jun Wang, age 17, Temporarily Home-Schooled, Daly City, Calif.:A Vaccinethat Works notEnough to Work

Talia Wang, age 16, Chinese InternationalSchool, Hong Kong: “Cities Built a BeatingHeart

Reece Watterson, age 17, Union County High School Liberty, Ind.: “ Esports: A New Era of Equal

Opportunity Athletics”

HannahWeissman, age 16, ClarkstownHighSchoolNorth, NewCity, N.Y.: “ Americans' Rightto

Healthcare"

MadelineWitte, age 18 HighlandsRanchHighSchool, HighlandsRanch, Colo.: “ Howto

Modernize Your Yard Like a Moss

Rafael ZhanpengWu, age 16, Escola Americana do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: “When

A Zip Code DefinesYour Education

Zhikai Xia , age 16, UWC Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands: “A Round of Applause for Our

Brothers and Sisters "

KathyXiang, age 14, StuartCountryDaySchool, Princeton, N.J.: Watch Cat Videos. Not

Kitten."

LiwenXing, age 16, The ExperimentalHighSchoolAttachedto BeijingNormalUniversity, Beijing

“ Art that Stings: Motivation for Think and Change”

Jingyue Yang, age 16, Shanghai Weiyu high school, Shanghai: “ Out of Place The Predicament

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Faced by Rural Student in CollegeDaniel Yeo , age 15, Hackley School , Tarrytown , N.Y.: Ditch the Homework

Young, age 14, Exeter High School , Exeter, N.H .: “ One Nation ....Under God ?"

Anyang Yu , age 18, Ames High School , Ames , lowa : “ The Power of a Pencil”

Morgan Yu, age 15, Hinsdale Central , Willowbrook , Dress Codes - Promoting Sexism forGenerationsto Come"

JeffreyYuan, age 17, RiverDell RegionalHighSchool, Oradell, N.J.: When NewsCoverage

Becomes Counterproductive

Annabelle Zhang, age 15, Millburn Senior High School, Millburn, N.J.: Disinformation: The VirusWithout 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

Delete 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

Those Pipettes

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