如果你要写一封信给要求改变的人，你会写信给谁？你会怎么说？
这就是我们第二年在学生公开信比赛中提出的挑战。我们收到了来自世界各地青少年的 9,946 份参赛作品，我们的评委从中选出了 10 名优胜者、13 名亚军、40 名荣誉奖和 139 名其他决赛入围者，我们将在下方和此 PDF 中表彰他们。
这些学生写信给他们的老师，关于重新考虑课堂参与是什么样子，写信给 ChatGPT 关于它（曾经）对他们的控制，写信给美国总统关于“使我们成为美国人的历史”，等等。
虽然他们的许多请求都是针对个人的——这使得这些信件更加有力——但它们对我们所有人都有借鉴意义。学生们告诉我们，他们希望他们的工作能够引发讨论和反思，为他们和同龄人一直在努力解决的事情发声，并为一个对他们来说非常重要的问题带来认识，并希望改变。
正如决赛选手Agasya Mukkapati在她的艺术家声明中所写的那样，这些信件与其说是在指责或赢得争论，不如说是在问：“我们是怎么走到这一步的？我们不能做得更好吗？”
在接下来的一周里，我们将发布完整的获奖信件。
学生公开信竞赛获奖者
按字母顺序，按作者的名字排序：
Top 10 Winners
Anna Xu, 15, The Webb Schools, Claremont, Calif.: “To the Teachers Who Think Louder Means Leader”
Claire Mauney, 16, Byram Hills High School, Armonk, N.Y.: “Timed Tests Don’t Measure Aptitude, They Measure Speed and Memorization”
Emma Hua, 16, Needham High School, Needham, Mass.: “8 Seconds”
Fariza Fazyl, 17, Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan: “For the Girls Who Were Never Meant to Be”
Max Yoon, 17, Yorktown High School, Arlington, Va.: “A Plea for a Petite Plate”
Michael Shin, 16, Kent School, Kent, Conn.: “The Great Subscription Trap”
Michelle Huang, 17, Olentangy Liberty High School, Powell, Ohio: “Dear Ohio State Senators: I’m a Student, Not a Substitute”
Olivia Han, 16, Newport High School, Bellevue, Wash.: “We Need to Chat(GPT)”
Peter Philpott, 16, Cherry Creek High School, Greenwood Village, Colo.: “Trump: Don’t Delete the History That Makes Us American”
Vaishnavi Ravindranath, 17, Yorktown High School, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.: “If You Were Given the Chance to Save a Life, Wouldn’t You?”
Runners-Up
Ajrin Nawaz, 16, Rock Ridge High School, Ashburn, Va.: “Pain Shouldn’t Have a Price Tag: Expand Dental Coverage Now”
Anonymous, 16, Holly Springs High School, Holly Springs, N.C.: “To the Teacher Who Lowered Their Voice When They Said My Name”
Breana Sinkfield, 16, New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle, N.Y.: “The Data Isn’t Wrong. Your Entitlement Is: A Letter to the Meritocracy Experts”
Carlie Augustin, 16, John D. O’Bryant School of Math and Science, Boston: “An Open Letter to Tech Companies: The True Cost of Your Phone”
Danny Lam, 17, Hume-Fogg Academic High School, Nashville: “A Letter to Klarna”
Didar, 16, Specialized Lyceum No. 92 Named After M. Gandhi, Almaty, Kazakhstan: “Loss of Kazakh Culture, Traditions and Values”
Ella Ricard, 13, Rumson Country Day School, Rumson, N.J.: “White Uniform Shorts? Think Again, Girls Academy.”
Lucas Di Vanna, 16, Deer Park High School, Deer Park, N.Y.: “Our Island Has a Heartbeat — Don’t Silence It.”
Nelson Cordon, 17, Abington Friends School, Jenkintown, Pa.: “American Dream?”
Samantha Wu, 16, Orange County School of the Arts, Santa Ana, Calif.: “Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Scantron, Asking for Reform”
Sragvi Basireddy, 15, Hillsborough High School, Hillsborough Township, N.J.: “Dear FDA: Your ‘Warning Label’ Is a Joke — and Teens Are the Punchline”
Stella Xulin, 17, Farmington High School, Farmington, Conn.: “Re-envisioning Women’s Healthcare in the 21st Century”
Yura Matsuya, 17, Newport High School: “Representation Matters, Even in a Pixelated World”
Honorable Mentions
Abigail Kirincich, 16, Concord Carlisle High School, Concord, Mass.: “A Much Needed Break”
Agasya Mukkapati, 16, Holly Springs High School, Holly Springs, N.C.: “To User107837 and All Who Comment”
Agnes Kardashian, 17, Woodstock Union High School, Woodstock, Vt.: “Dear Grandchildren of the World, Give Your Grandparents a Call.”
Alex Cox, 17, Holton-Arms School, Bethesda, Md.: “Let America Read: An Appeal Against Book Bans”
Alex Wright, 16, Westview High School, Portland, Ore.: “Healthcare, American Style”
Alexandra Pro, 17, Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, Pa.: “The Dangerous Side of ‘Fitspiration’”
Alistair Browning, 17, Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, Pa.: “Letter to the Democrats: I’m a Young Man. Here’s Why You Lost Us”
Anders Dewar, 14, Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y.: “Mylan, When Does Profit Turn to Greed?”
Andrew Haynes, 16, The Woodlands College Park High School, The Woodlands, Texas: “Not All Disabilities Wear Name Tags”
Andrew Seager, 15, Algonquin Regional High School, Northborough, Mass.: “An Open Letter to Elon Musk”
Angie Yuan, 13, Fay School, Southborough, Mass.: “Let Us Be Children: A Plea to Raise the Age of Consent in China”
Audrey Duffy, 16, Verona Area High School, Verona, Wis.: “When Did We Stop Listening?”
Cara Pan, 17, Penncrest High School, Media, Pa.: “Hostile Architecture: A Deep-Seated Evil”
Claire Lin, 17, Peddie School, Hightstown, N.J.: “We Teach Science. Why Not Ethics?”
Cordelia Russell, 14, Moorestown High School, Moorestown, N.J.: “A Letter From a Hopeless Best Friend”
Diep Anh Ha Vu, 17, Delta Global School, Hanoi, Vietnam: “To Fathers Who Are Needed Now More Than Ever”
Ditya Viral Dave, 15, The Indian Public School, India: “Dear Cosmetics Companies, I Am Not a Starbucks Drink”
Eunsong Kim, 17, Oakton High School, Vienna, Va.: “What We Owe the Ones We’ve Lost”
Hyowon Jang, 15, The Harker School, San Jose, Calif.: “A Pill of False Hope”
Ikeoluwa Esan, 16, Hamilton High School, Chandler, Ariz.: “Do You See What I See?”
Jeshua Johann, 16, Lake Stevens High School, Lake Stevens, Wash.: “How to Take the NBA From Silver to Emerald”
Joshua Pun, 17, Centreville High School, Clifton, Va.: “Modern Finance Demands Modern Education: An Open Letter to the Virginia Board of Education”
Justin Chen, 14, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, Calif: “The Price of Perfection: Palo Alto’s Silent Crisis”
Justin Huh, 14, Daegu International School, Daegu, South Korea: “Don’t Let A.I. Take Your Voice”
Kache Hortmann, 17, NUAMES, Layton, Utah: “Maybe the Sky Should Be the Limit”
Kailin Xuan, 17, The Bishop’s School, La Jolla, Calif.: “When Will You Teach Us How to Decode the News?”
Katie Leder, 17, William A. Shine Great Neck South High School, Lake Success, N.Y.: “To the Young Boys Chained by the Algorithm”
Lily Sun, 15, Brookfield East High School, Brookfield, Wis.: “Dear Textbook Publishers: My History Didn’t Start With Opium”
Matigan Baker, 16, Jesuit High School, Portland, Ore: “Congolese Cobalt Crisis”
Nazeefah Binte Mowla, 17, Shrewsbury High School, Shrewsbury, Mass.: “An Unfulfilled Mission Toward the Whole Truth”
Saanvi Kabra, 17, Indus International School Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India: “The Trauma Olympics — How College Essays Are a Scam”
Samuel Samouha, 17, YULA Boys High School, Los Angeles: “Devil in a New Dress”
Sara Skewes, 17, Jamesville Dewitt High School, Jamesville, N.Y.: “Deportation: The Antithesis of the American Dream”
Sarvagya Sharma, 16, KC International School Jammu, Paloura, Jammu and Kashmir: “Dear Instagram, Stop Profiting From Our Insecurities”
Sifei Xie, 14, Basis International School Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China: “A Letter to the Trump Administration”
Sohyun Mun, 17, Valor International Scholars, Anseong, South Korea: “From Behind the Counter: An Open Letter to the CEO of KFC”
Suhjung Kim, 16, Seoul International School, Seoul: “Let Us Stay a Little Foreign: A Letter to Netflix’s Subtitle Team”
Sunwoo (Summer) Kim, 14, Winchester High School, Winchester, Mass.: “Dear ‘American’ Neighbor, Here’s What You Really Didn’t Understand”
Valerie Fu, 16, Carmel High School, Carmel, Ind.: “Letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Don’t Give Up Our Black-Footed Ferrets”
Umulkhayr Abdilahi, 17, University Prep, Seattle: “Wrapped in Faith: A Story They Never Tried to Understand”
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