在本次大赛中，我们鼓励他们就自己关心的问题撰写面向公众的信件。
我们的评委——包括《纽约时报》的记者、学习网络的员工以及来自全美各地的教育工作者——阅读了来自世界各地青少年的11185份投稿。他们选出了七封获奖信件，此外还有数十封入围和荣誉提名作品。
感谢所有参与的学生。
学生公开信竞赛获奖者
按字母顺序，按作者的名字排序：
Winners
Chan-Yul Kim, 16, McNeil High School, Austin, Texas: “Mourning the Silence of Civic Education”
Isabelle Kim, 15, Holton-Arms School, Bethesda, Md.: “Could You Patent the Sun?”
Katheryn Chan, 15, Hamilton High School, Chandler, Ariz.: “Error 404: Humanity Not Found”
Mindy Lux, 16, Sierra Vista High School, Baldwin Park, Calif.: “Why Students Are Forced to Fight Hunger Themselves”
Orly Kochinski, 16, Northwood High School, Irvine, Calif.: “‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’: The Cost of Fictionalizing the Holocaust”
Vihaan Miriyala, 15, John F. Kennedy High School, Fremont, Calif.: “The Anti-Social Media”
Violet S. Tran, 15, Stuyvesant High School, New York City: “A Bench Is Not a Barrier”
Runners-Up
Audrey Li, 17, Seven Lakes High School, Katy, Texas: “Whose Classroom Is This?”
Camryn Banafsheha, 17, Milken Community School, Los Angeles: “A Call to Live, Truly”
Iqra Asghar, 16, Burlington County Institute of Technology - Westampton, Westampton Township, N.J.: “Lunch Lines and Country Borders”
Isabel Cooper, 18, The Kinkaid School, Houston: “Safety Isn’t Optional: Holding Texas Camps Accountable”
Janna Akira Mikaela D. Rodriguez, 17, Philippine Science High School - Main Campus, Quezon City, Philippines: “If My Face Is Not My Own, Whose Is It?”
Kayley Dunn, 17, Verona Area High School, Verona, Wis.: “The Cost of Being Dismissed”
Logan Hana Higase-Chen, 17, U.S. Performance Academy: “Confession of a Teenage Shopaholic”
Mehreen Ziaee, 13, Thornton Middle School, Fremont, Calif.: “An Open Letter to President Trump”
Naomi Manglos, 16, Cheltenham High School, Wyncote, Pa.: “Menstruation: Why Taboo?”
Rusty MacKenzie, 17, Franklin High School, Portland, Ore.: “An Open Letter to Archbishop Alexander Sample”
Sharika Anuj, 17, Archbishop Mitty High School, San Jose, Calif.: “The List”
Sophie Halper, 17, Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest, Demarest, N.J.: “Sometimes You Just Can’t Wait”
Steven Jiang, 16, Walter Payton College Preparatory High School, Chicago: “Dear Savannah Guthrie, We Are Sorry”
Honorable Mentions
Adrian Montenegro, 17, P-TECH Norwalk High School, Norwalk, Conn.: “The Great Equalizer Is Already Here”
Angel Zhang, 17, Stevenson School, Pebble Beach, Calif.: “What Education Means”
Bhavya Uppalapati, 13, Rachel Carson Middle School, Herndon, Va.: “Dear ChatGPT: I Can See You From My School Bus”
Cadence Ann Carson, 18, Abington Friends School, Jenkintown, Pa.: “No Escape From the Camera”
Desra Sonnek-Schmelz, 17, Westfield High School, Westfield, N.J.: “When Help Is ‘Right Next Door,’ It’s Already Late”
Devan Upadhyay, 15, Brookline High School, Brookline, Mass.: “When the Fight Against Cancer Becomes the Fight Against the White House”
Devon Tang, 14, Interlake High School, Bellevue, Wash.: “This Is NOT A.I.-Generated”
Eli Werling, 18, New Trier High School, Winnetka, Ill.: “A Future Without Needles and Numbers”
Haibei Gao, 17, The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: “Sharenting and the Cost of Being Seen”
Isaac Hong, 16, Tenafly High School, Tenafly, N.J.: “1 out of 377”
Nadia Reddy, 16, Harriton High School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.: “More Than a Reflection”
Niko Dalton, 17, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Mo.: “Dear U.S. Lawmakers: I Am Not a Transgender Activist. I Just Want a Normal Life.”
Ollie Chun, 13, Chadwick International School, Incheon, South Korea: “When a Disorder Becomes a Label”
Ritsuki Tanaka, 17, Oshukan Secondary School, Tokyo: “When They Knock”
Sharika Dhar, 17, Academy for Allied Health Sciences, Scotch Plains, N.J.: “Women, Cardiac Arrest, But the Simple Fix That Could Save Lives”
Valentina Fuentes Jimenez, 18, New Canaan High School, New Canaan, Conn.: “A Window on America”
