模因和心理健康、禁书和骑自行车：年轻人告诉我们对他们最重要的问题。
。。。伊戈尔·巴斯蒂达斯
如果您一直在关注我们举办学生社论大赛的九年，您就会知道，每年春天，我们都会邀请世界各地的初中和高中学生就他们喜欢的任何主题撰写意见文章——只要他们能用 450 字或更少的字数提出论点。
感谢许多接受这一挑战的老师，每年我们都会收到数千篇论文。然而，今年是记录簿上的一年：收到了16，664份提交，比以往任何时候都多了约5，000份。为了考虑所有这些，我们招募了68名评委，他们工作了两个多月和六轮阅读，以选择我们在下面和通过这个列出所有决赛入围者的PDF来表彰的200多名学生。
与往常一样，这些文章提供了一个窗口，让我们了解一代人对他们最关心的问题的看法——无论是影响我们所有人的气候变化和政治功能失调等问题，还是学校着装要求和在当今互联网文化中成长的青少年特定现实。
但是，与往常一样，它们也向我们介绍了新的想法和解决方案。今年的获奖者解释了多代人生活的好处，为什么Z世代应该将农业视为职业，模因如何让年轻人加入全球对话，以及为什么学校需要更加关注数百万混血学生进入课堂。
我们将在下周的专栏中发布最高获奖者和亚军的作品，每个上学日三件。我们希望他们能帮助您以新的方式看待世界。请通过留下您的评论让这些学生知道您的想法。
感谢所有参与的人——我们希望您能参加我们的夏季阅读比赛，该比赛从现在开始一直持续到 8 月 19 日。
（学生注意：我们已经公布了我们获得许可的学生的姓名、年龄和学校。如果您希望发表您的文章，请写信给我们 LNFeedback@nytimes.com。
学生社论比赛获奖者
按字母顺序排列，按作者的姓氏排列。
Winners
Aria Capelli, age 16, The Athenian School, Danville, Calif.: “Bunking With Grandma: Lessons From My Multi-Generational Pandemic Bubble”
Aimee Choi, age 17, Seoul International School, Seongnam, South Korea: “Planting the Next Chapter of Farming”
Lucas Cohen-d’Arbeloff, age 17, Harvard-Westlake School, Los Angeles: “How ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Diminishes Same-Sex Parents and Their Children”
Kate-Yeonjae Jeong, age 17, Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston: “To Meme or Not to Meme”
Ketong Li, age 17, Miss Porter’s School, Farmington, Conn.: “High on Helping: The Dangers of Voluntourism”
Serena Liu, age 15, Parkway West High School, Chesterfield, Mo.: “Stolen Art: Why We Need Repatriation”
Emerson Riter, age 15, The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: “After Treatment Comes a New Battle, and Cancer Patients Aren’t Prepared”
Louisa Rosenberg-Chiriboga, age 15, Francis Parker School, San Diego: “Black, White and Somewhere in Between”
Katherine Shao, age 16, Mercer Island High School, Mercer Island, Wash.: “Megaconstellations: ‘Stars’ You Don’t Want to See in the Sky”
Evelyn Wang, age 17, Naperville North High School, Naperville, Ill.: “How Fast Fashion Became Faster — and Worse for the Earth”
Zoe Yu, age 17, The Woodlands College Park High School, The Woodlands, Texas: “Endangered Languages Are Worth Saving”
亚军
Anika Ajgaonkar, age 15, Biotechnology High School, Freehold, N.J.: “Learning With Mother Tongues Helps Us Find Home”
Soa Andriamananjara, age 15, Holton Arms School, Bethesda, Md.: “Madagascar: The Country”
Sydney Black, age 16, Byram Hills High School, Armonk, N.Y.: “It Is High Time We Give 16-Year-Olds the Vote”
Srikruthi Godavarthi, age 16, Olentangy High School, Lewis Center, Ohio: “The Silent Sobs of Asian Americans”
Isabella Heilig, age 16, Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Buxton, N.C.: “Rape Culture Dressed Up as Protection”
Ruby Jewett, age 16, Jesuit High School, Portland, Ore.: “Schools Need to Build More Bike Racks”
Zhi Feng Etan Kiang, age 14, Harvard-Westlake School, Los Angeles: “A Real American Military Calls for All Americans”
Catherine Latimer, age 16, Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School, Portland, Ore.: “Back It Up Shakespeare — Skills-Based Learning Has Come to College”
Kit Man Simon Law, age 16, QSI International School of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China: “I’m a Man Who Has Long Hair — So What?”
Fayte Le, age 16, Vista Ridge High School, Cedar Park, Texas: “I Am [REDACTED]”
Wendy Lu, age 17, Oakton High School, Vienna, Va.: “Ethnic Aisles: Segregation Within Grocery Stores”
Rachel Pakan, age 16, Hunter College High School, New York, N.Y.: “The Epidemic of Performative Social Media Activism”
Sunghyun Park, age 16, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.: “It’s Time to Lose the Obsolete Tradition of Classroom Animal Dissections”
Zizhou Peng, age 18, St. George’s School, Middletown, R.I.: “China’s After-School Tutoring Ban Offers No Reprieve From School Stress. Here’s What Beijing Should Do.”
Bea Reichman, age 17, Penfield High School, Penfield, N.Y.: “School or Services? Public Districts Need More Holidays.”
Shane Stesner, age 17, Regis High School, New York, N.Y.: “Natural Resource Robber Barons: The Case for Environmental Personhood”
Yael Wellisch, age 18, Georgetown Day School, Washington, D.C.: “Technology and the Shaping of News Consumption”
Owen Yu, age 17, The Haverford School, Haverford, Pa.: “Crying: It’s a Human Thing”
荣誉奖
Shreya Arukil, age 17, Lenape High School, Medford, N.J.: “Redefining Americanism”
James Biglan, age 17, Cheltenham High School, Wyncote, Pa.: “Moving Forward, Together”
Elsa Bishop, age 15, Exeter High School, Exeter, N.H.: “Respect the Pandemonium”
Martha Castro, age 16, The Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles: “Unattainable Living: Effects of Gentrification on Culture and Heritage”
Emily Chen, age 15, University Transition Program, Vancouver: “The Plight of the Tiger Mothers”
Jialu Chen, age 16, University of Toronto Schools, Toronto: “Shakespeare: In Complete Honesty”
Ricky Chen, age 16, Shenzhen College of International Education, Shenzhen, China: “A Tip for the U.S.A.”
Yuan Cheng, age 14, Marlborough School, Los Angeles: “The Silver Screen Closet: Confronting Queerbaiting in Films”
Joseph Coyle, age 17, Penfield High School, Penfield, N.Y.: “Video Games Could Be the Key to Youth Cognitive Development”
William Dai, age 17, Plano West Senior High School, Plano, Texas: “How to Save the News”
Grace DeLossa, age 17, The Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles: “Gay-Related Information Deficiency, or GRID”
Tara Dixit, age 16, Chantilly High School, Chantilly, Va.: “Teen Mental Health in the United States”
Keira Doshi, age 15, Francis Parker School, San Diego: “Standing Tall at 4’11”: Why I Can’t”
Adam Gottesdiener, age 17, Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn, N.Y.: “The Cycling Generation: A Vision for a Greener New York City”
Qianying Gu, age 15, YK Pao School, Shanghai: “An Out-of-Pocket Proposal”
Eddie Guan, age 16, Northfield Mount Hermon School, Gill, Mass.: “Free of Covid or Freedom During Covid”
Michelle Hernandez-Torres, age 16, South Lyon High School, South Lyon, Mich.: “The Deceitful Glamour of Narcos”
Mia Huybrechts, age 16, Oakton High School, Vienna, Va.: “Period Poverty Is More Costly Than You’d Think”
Adrien Ibsen, age 17, Roosevelt High School, Des Moines, Iowa: “America’s Dystopian Schools: The Consequence of Censorship in Education”
Jiaqi Jiang, age 17, JSerra Catholic High School, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.: “The Necessity of Keeping Speech Free”
Miaya Jones, age 15, West Geauga High School, Chesterland, Ohio: “Why Pencils Are Better Than Pens”
Kristie Kang, age 16, SMIC Private School Shanghai International Division, Shanghai: “It’s Time to Take Some Time”
Eliana Kim, age 16, International Gateway Academy, Istanbul: “Shoes Off, Please”
Rhea Kohli, age 15, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, Middlesex County, N.J.: “No Pockets, No Deal”
Jack Lakis, age 16, Harrison High School, Kennesaw, Ga.: “We Raised a Politically Illiterate Generation”
Megan Lane, age 17, Socastee High School, Myrtle Beach, S.C.: “Why Now Is the Time to Read ‘Don Quixote’”
Tanner Langeveld, age 16, Green Valley High School, Henderson, Nev.: “Free the Page”
Joshua Levinson, age 14, Murray Avenue Middle School, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: “Do What’s Right: Make Our Future Bright”
Ann Li, age 16, International Community School, Kirkland, Wash.: “Women-Only Isn’t Women-Inclusive”
Raphael Li, age 16, Henry M. Gunn High School, Palo Alto, Calif.: “ADX Florence: An Insidious Stab at Human Rights”
Yaning Liu, age 16, Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va.: “We Can Never Erase History, So Let’s Add More to the Story”
Sarah Josefine Lonser, age 18, Columbus School for Girls, Columbus, Ohio: “Where’s My _________ Teenage Dream?”
Alan Ma, age 17, Jesuit High School, Portland, Ore.: “More Than Just a Ball”
Benjamin Mast, age 17, Verona Area High School, Verona, Wis.: “The Parasite in Your Pocket”
David Moore, age 18, Olentangy High School, Lewis Center, Ohio: “The Pedagogue’s Pitfall”
Sara Nimz, age 16, Oak Park River Forest High School, Oak Park, Ill.: “We Have Failed to Properly Educate Our Children on the Holocaust”
Minha Oh, age 15, Sage Hill School, Newport Beach, Calif.: “The Primrose Path to Predictive Text”
Pooja Patel, age 16, Herricks High School, New Hyde Park, N.Y.: “Hidden in Her Pocket”
Ryan Pearlman, age 16, Buffalo Grove High School, Buffalo Grove, Ill.: “Schools and the Technological Takeover”
Aanya Raghavan, age 13, Timberline Middle School, Redmond, Wash.: “Cinderella Isn’t So Bad: A Modern Feminist’s Take on Disney Princesses”
June Ritzman, age 15, Albany High School, Albany, Calif.: “It’s They/Them, Not a Phase”
Cora Shao, age 14, University Transition Program, Vancouver: “Just Because I Read Y.A. Doesn’t Mean I Have a Vampire Boyfriend”
Ella Sleutaris, age 17, Penncrest High School, Media, Pa.: “School: A Barrier to Childhood”
Kai-Ping Su, age 16, Shanghai American School, Shanghai: “The Negatives of ‘Body Positivity’”
Erin Sweeny, age 12, Menlo School, Atherton, Calif.: “The Truth Inside Gendered Pockets”
Allison M. Vardi, age 15, Ramsey High School, Ramsey, N.J.: “Let Us Pee”
Maeve: “Toilet Talk: Bathrooms Should Be a Right Not a Privilege in Public School”
Isabella Winters, age 17, Notre Dame de Sion High School, Kansas City, Mo.: “Don’t Drop the Soap: Why You Shouldn’t Laugh”
Yichen Wu, age 15, APP-ARK Education, Shanghai: “Appropriate or Appropriated? Navigating Cultural Fusion in a Global Age”
Victor Xu, age 14, The Crescent School, Toronto: “Our Educational System Should Better Serve Introverted Students”
Sanjana Yasna, age 16, Stuyvesant High School, New York, N.Y.: “Let’s End the Period of Shame”
Sarah Yee, age 15, Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay, Calif.: “Open Your Eyes to See Mine Are Not Your Trend”
Hanna Zhao, age 14, John Jay High School, South Salem, N.Y.: “Makeup’s Skeleton in the Closet: Mica Mining”
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