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Our 2024-25 Student Contest Calendar
Ten challenges that invite teenagers to engage, experiment, reflect and create — via writing, photography, audio, video and more.
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Teachers, How Do You Handle Classroom Conversations About Hot-Button Issues?
What has worked? What has been difficult? We’d love to hear from educators at all levels and across subject areas.
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Summer Reading Contest, Week 7: What Got Your Attention in The Times This Week?
To participate, submit your response here by July 26 at 9 a.m. Eastern. This week’s winners will be announced by Aug. 7.
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Our 15th Annual Summer Reading Contest
Students are invited to tell us what they’re reading in The Times and why, this year in writing OR via a 90-second video. Contest dates: June 7 to Aug. 16.
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‘A Voice Can Change You’: The Week 5 Winner of Our Summer Reading Contest
In her 90-second video, Annie Ma, 14, explains how an essay by the singer Dessa hit home for her.
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CreditThea Traff for The New York Times ContestsWe are honoring the Top 9 winners of our Student Open Letter Contest by publishing their entries. This one is by Anya Wang, age 16.
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When we ran our new Open Letters Contest, we never imagined that a teenager would choose us as the recipient. Here is our response.
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: haptic
This word has appeared in five articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: defector
This word has appeared in 38 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: exacting
This word has appeared in 265 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: revue
This word has appeared in 52 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: futile
This word has appeared in 184 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: credo
This word has appeared in 45 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: imperceptibly
This word has appeared in 14 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: presumptuous
This word has appeared in 25 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Winner of Student Open Letter ContestGrass Lawns: Lavish and Lamentable
We are honoring the Top 9 winners of our Student Open Letter Contest by publishing their entries. This one is by Lucy Robb, age 17.
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Contests‘As a Muslim, Those Words Pierce My Soul’: The Week 4 Winner of Our Summer Reading Contest
Jawaher Korichi, 17, writes about how the two sides of her family experience the Hajj differently.
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