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从马丁·路德·金在伯明翰监狱写下那封震撼美国的信，到2020年科技领袖联名警示AI风险——一封写给“有权改变者”的公开信，足以点燃思想、推动变革。

如今，《纽约时报》将这一力量交到青少年手中。
2026年“公开信・我们的观点”（The Learning Network’s “Letter to Someone in Power” Contest） 正式开启，邀请全球13–19岁学生，用不超过500字的文字，向能改变现状的人发出你的声音。

一、2026比赛关键信息

无需报名费，免费参赛！

二、比赛核心要求：写给“谁”？说什么？

你不是在写一篇议论文，而是在直接对话一位“掌权者”——他们有能力、有资源、有责任为你关心的问题采取行动。

官方提示三问（写作前必答）：

我关心什么？

谁能做出改变？

我想让他们理解什么？具体做什么？

成功信件的三大特质：

精准受众：收信人必须真实存在且有决策权（如“Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg”，而非“社交媒体公司”）；

个人联结：从你的亲身经历出发（如“作为每天刷3小时短视频的高中生，我注意到……”）；

公共价值：不仅对你重要，也对更广泛群体有意义（让普通读者共鸣）。

 三、为什么强烈推荐参加？

1.升学申请的“隐形加分项”

被《纽约时报》发表 = 全球顶级媒体背书；

即使未获奖，参赛经历也可写入 Common App 的 “Additional Information” 或 Activities 栏，展现公民意识 + 批判性思维 + 写作能力；

尤其适合申请 政治学、新闻、社会学、公共政策、环境科学、科技伦理 等方向。

2.500字练就“高影响力写作”

在信息爆炸时代，简洁、有力、精准的表达是稀缺能力；

学会用最小篇幅讲清问题、打动人心、呼吁行动——这是未来领导者的核心技能。

3.培养“解决问题”而非“抱怨问题”的思维

比赛逼你思考：“我能推动什么改变？” 而非“这世界多糟糕”；

这种建设性公民精神，正是藤校最看重的品质。

4.全球舞台，被看见的机会

每年 NYT 会精选数十篇优秀信件在官网刊登；

你的声音可能被教育工作者、政策制定者甚至媒体报道！

四、备赛建议：如何写出一封“能改变世界”的信？

Step 1：选题聚焦“小切口，大意义”

避免宏大空洞（如“解决气候变化”）；

聚焦具体场景（如“我校食堂每日浪费200公斤食物”）；

从个人故事切入 → 引出系统性问题 → 提出可行方案。

Step 2：研究你的“收信人”

他们过去做过什么相关决策？

他们的价值观是什么？（环保？效率？公平？）

你的建议是否符合他们的职权范围？

Step 3：结构清晰，情感与逻辑并重

1开头（1–2句）：我是谁 + 为什么写给你  2中段（3–4句）：我的观察/经历 + 数据或事实支撑  3结尾（2–3句）：具体请求 + 呼吁行动 + 展望改变后的积极图景

Step 4：精炼语言，反复删减

初稿可写700字，再删至500字；

删除所有冗余形容词、重复论述；

每句话都要有“信息量”或“情感力”。

扫码查看历届获奖优秀论文，导师一对一竞赛规划！

若你正在寻找新鲜的阅读、观看、游玩、聆听、穿戴、品尝或探访之选，无需再寻。以下是我们第八届年度学生评论大赛的入围作品，该活动邀请青少年担任评论家，针对《纽约时报》所涵盖的各类创意表达撰写原创评论。

我们收到了来自世界各地青少年的近4000份投稿，并选出了数十位入围选手。

感谢所有参与者的支持。

The Cafe: Where the Cool Kids Go

Breath of the Wild: A Gamer’s Cookie Jar

‘Samsara’: Look Into a Kaleidoscope and See Yourself

‘Amy and Isabelle’: A Quietly Subversive Masterpiece

Celestial Ceilings, Convoluted Chronicles and Celebrated Cities: Behind the Grand Central Station Constellation Mural

‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’: When Too Much Is Just Enough

Balenciaga’s 2023 Spring/Summer Line: Dull as Mud?

Junji Ito’s ‘The Enigma of Amigara Fault’: Contorted by Conformity

War at Its Most Pointless: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

All Finalists

Winners

Amy Liu, 17, Developing Virtue Secondary School, Ukiah, Calif.: “‘Samsara’: Look Into a Kaleidoscope and See Yourself”

Audrey He, 17, Plano West Senior High School, Plano, Texas: “‘Amy and Isabelle’: A Quietly Subversive Masterpiece”

Caridee Chau, 15, Shanghai American School, Shanghai: “Junji Ito’s ‘The Enigma of Amigara Fault’: Contorted by Conformity”

Chloe Shannon Wong, 16, Arcadia High School, Arcadia, Calif.: “The Cafe: Where the Cool Kids Go”

Gabriel Kantor, 15, Jackson Hole High School, Jackson, Wyo.: “Breath of the Wild: A Gamer’s Cookie Jar”

Kaixin Cassie Zheng, 14, Shanghai American School, Shanghai: “Balenciaga’s 2023 Spring/Summer Line: Dull as Mud?”

Orion Elfant Rea, 15, Morro Bay High School, Morro Bay, Calif.: “War at Its Most Pointless: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’”

Sam Johar, 17, Hunter College High School, New York, N.Y.: “Celestial Ceilings, Convoluted Chronicles and Celebrated Cities: Behind the Grand Central Station Constellation Mural”

Thy Luong, 16, Notre Dame High School, San Jose, Calif.: “‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’: When Too Much Is Just Enough”

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Runners-Up

Cheryl Chen, 15, Havergal College, Toronto: “‘Kill Your Darlings’: A Literary and Spiritual Revolution”

Eleanor Loeper-Viti, 16, Tower Hill School, Wilmington, Del.: “‘The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue’: Stunning Writing With Little Depth”

Elisabeth Nelson, 14, The Meadowbrook School of Weston, Concord, Mass.: “No More Teachers, No More Books? Not at ‘Abbott Elementary’”

Gwen Bradwell, 16, The Baldwin School, Philadelphia: “Paradise Lost in a Greying Thought”

Hailey Zhang, 15, Cary Academy, Cary, N.C.: “It’s Chaotic, It’s Relatable, It’s ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’”

Hannah Morley, 15, Hoboken High School, Hoboken, N.J.: “A Fiddler on the Roof. Meshuge, Neyn?”

Henry Weinschel, 16, Roslyn High School, Roslyn Heights, N.Y.: “Fish!, Borough Market, London”

Josha Partin, 17, Sayre School, Lexington, Ky.: “The Heartwarming Impact of Representation”

Julia Abu, 15, Victory Christian International School, Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines: “Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Proves She’s a Mastermind”

McKenzie Shagena, 16, Port Huron Northern High School, Port Huron, Mich.: “‘Boy Erased’: The Realities of Being L.G.B.T.Q. in the South”

Michael Gan, 16, Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong, Shanghai: “Columbia Circle Regenerated — The Timelessness of Architecture”

Pavithra Iyer, 16, Sunset High School, Portland, Ore.: “‘Derry Girls’: An Ardent Celebration of Joy”

Riya Kommineni, 16, Greenhill School, Dallas, Texas: “Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Virgin Suicides’: A Stunning Vignette on Eternal Girlhood”

Tiffany Chan, 15, Botany Downs Secondary College, East Tāmaki Heights, Auckland, New Zealand: “‘The Farewell’: To Tell or Not to Tell”

Vivian Palmer, 17, The Baldwin School, Radnor, Pa.: “‘The Carrying’: ‘Inherently, Wonderfully, Unapologetically Human’”

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Honorable Mentions

Alexander Kruschka, 17, Arrowhead High School, Hartland, Wis.: “Frostpunk: A Beautiful Steampunk City Builder”

Amaidhiameya Ilangovan-Arya, 16, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, N.J.: “‘The Hurting Kind’: An Unprecedented Triumph”

Amanda Fernandez, 17, Jose Marti STEM Academy, Union City, N.J.: “Motion Picture Masterpiece: ‘The Red Shoes’”

Angelina Xie, 17, The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, N.Y.: “‘Moxie’: Oh, Girl …”

Charlotte Levy, 15, Mira Costa High School, Manhattan Beach, Calif.: “‘Jeopardy!’: Maybe Your Grandparents Were On to Something”

Charlotte M. Melroy, 15, John T. Hoggard High School, Wilmington, N.C.: “‘Fleabag’: A Desperate Love Letter to Sisters”

Chuying Huo, 16, London Central Secondary School, London, Ontario: “‘Persuasion’ Persuaded Me to Stay Far Away From Netflix’s Austen Adaptations”

Emma Yao, 17, University Hill Secondary School, Vancouver, British Columbia: “Curating Authenticity in the Name of BeingReal”

Emma Yookyung Na, 17, Sage Creek High School, Carlsbad, Calif.: “‘Minari’ and the Collective Memory of American Immigration”

Erin Harding, 16, NUAMES High School, Layton, Utah: “A Hard Day’s (Moon) Knight”

Gloria Badibanga, 13, Roberto W. Clemente Middle School, Germantown, Md.: “‘Everfair’ Makes Its Mark in the World of Steampunk Afrofuturism”

Jeremiah Chung, 18, Hunter College High School, New York, N.Y.: “Novel Tradition: Gaonurri’s Fresh Take on Classic Cuisine”

Kyo Lee, 15, Laurel Heights Secondary School, Ontario, Canada: “‘Jigsaw’: An Ingenious Mélange of Comedy and Commentary”

Lucy Nelson, 16, Glen Ridge High School, Glen Ridge, N.J.: “Rated One Star(buck)”

Mahika Bhatt, 18, Woodgrove High School, Purcellville, Va.: “‘Never Have I Ever,’ and No One Ever Should”

Miller Roberts, 16, Westlake High School, Austin, Texas: “‘Rise’: A Recipe for Scoring in Basketball — Mix Love With Hope and Determination”

Natalie Houlton, 16, Guilford High School, Guilford, Conn.: “Lizzy McAlpine Will Grab Your Attention in ‘Five Seconds Flat’”

Nicola Pak, 15, United World College of South East Asia, Singapore: “The Liar and the Lover: Why ‘These Violent Delights’ Should Be on Your Bookshelf”

Trisha Iyer, 16, The Harker School, Cupertino, Calif.: “In ‘Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy,’ Enter the World of a Fashion Star”

Sophie Zhou, 15, Stuyvesant High School, New York, N.Y.: “New World Mall Food Court: A Chaotic Wonderland of East Asian Comfort Food”

Rajeshwari Rawal, 16, Middleton High School, Middleton, Wis.: “Madeline Miller’s ‘Circe’: A Bewitching Spin on One of Literature’s Most Iconic Tales”

Ryan Choe, 16, Jupiter Community High School, Jupiter, Fla.: “The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and a Fiona Apple Re-Listen Will Greatly Service You”

Savina Williams, 17, Coronado High School, Scottsdale, Ariz.: “Insatiable? I’d Rather Be Satisfied.”

Sylvie Schrader, 17, Port Huron Northern High School, Port Huron, Mich.: “‘A Place of Greater Safety’: Six Feet Under, With Your Head in a Basket”

Tara Isabel Dee Lago, 17, Staten Island Technical High School, Staten Island, N.Y.: “‘Koisenu Futari’: An Aromantic Asexual Take on a Happy Family”

William Schreiber, 17, Kirkwood High School, Kirkwood, Mo.: “‘Wednesday’ Is Bizarre Gen Z Bliss”

Yoonsa Lee, 15, Deerfield Academy, Amherst, Mass.: “‘Whisper of the Heart’: Studio Ghibli’s Ode to the Artistic Process”

Yuanheng Yue, 16, The World Foreign Language Academy, Shanghai: “Love Is a Silent Expression”

Yutong Wu, The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, Beijing: “Forget Me Not Café: Memories May Be Forgotten But Warmth Not”

Orion Elfant Rea, 15, Morro Bay High School, Morro Bay, Calif.

Felix Kammerer, center, in “All Quiet on the Western Front,” a film that “aims to immerse the viewer in war itself,” writes Orion Elfant Rea, 15.Credit...Reiner Bajo/Netflix

“We have so much to say, and we shall never say it.” — Erich Maria Remarque

“All Quiet on the Western Front” is a film that aims to immerse the viewer in war itself. It is a battle just to keep watching, to continue breathing as each horrible moment unfolds. The soundtrack from Volker Bertelmann, thumping yet somber, mirrors war’s every mood, scream and sneeze. The cinematography, production design, and makeup paint a portrait lined with dull hues and wretched substances: blood, pus, excrement, snot … and then, there is the dirt. An endless supply of every shade and every nationality that never washes away. The viewer must sit there, covered with the stuff, and watch death persevere.

But Edward Berger, a German filmmaker with a fittingly barren filmography, does not simply seek to show the horrific nature of combat, as so many directors have done before him. Instead, he aims to engross the audience with a distinct air of futility. Generals spit in the face of peace, discarding onto porcelain plates delicacies their men haven’t eaten for years. They prolong a war that has no meaning or purpose. Political evils are worse, Berger tells the audience. They control all, they endure nothing; they send a boy where his mother will never see him again.

Berger’s storytelling is not flawless. In tackling these regimes, he tries to capture the cyclical nature of it all, that war will be waged forever and peace will never come. But at some point, a fraction of the on-screen fatalities become gratuitous, and I wonder why Berger did not utilize the unseen to hammer home his message about scheming men, who promote fear yet label it as glory. A commander steals a soldier’s life who dared to question why he must battle again, after suffering for so long. The men never reach that promised glory. They die meaningless deaths, their bodies lying slumped and frozen along the Western Front.

Felix Kammerer and Albrecht Schuch play men who fight not for their country, but for their lives, for the right not to feel the bottom of a grave by day’s end. They convey sorrowful brotherhood, showing respites from these horrors: laughter, color. Their faces are as expressive as clay. Their eyes show more anguish than any words could, flattened by a lust for blood that only man can possess. How glorious would it be, if we could spill a few more drops? Buckets? Monsoons of the stuff, pouring down from the heavens as if God himself has been silenced? Because sometimes, the Western Front can silence even Him. And then, it really is true.

All is quiet.