Update, June 17: Week 2 has now started.
Our 13th Annual Summer Reading Contest begins!
This contest is open to students 11-19 from anywhere in the world. To participate, submit a response by 9 a.m. Eastern on June 17 that answers the questions “What got your attention in The New York Times this week? Why?”
If you are 13 or older and live in the United States, or 16 or older from anywhere else in the world, post your response in the comment section. If you are a teacher, parent or guardian and your kids or students are 11-12 years old and live in the United States, or 11-15 and live in another country, see the bottom of this post for details on how to submit.
So what did you read, watch or listen to this week? Maybe you were consumed by front-page headlines about Uvalde or Ukraine — or maybe you were more taken with stories about sustainable fashion, a teenage race-car driver, the lifeguard shortage or whether Swedish people feed their guests. We don’t care what you choose, we just want to hear why you chose it.
We hope you’ll click around nytimes.com and find your own great articles, features and multimedia. But we also know that not everyone who participates has a Times subscription. Because all links to Times content from the student features on our site are free, every week we’ll try to help by posting interesting pieces from a variety of sections.
For example, this week you may have read front-page news articles like …
The Pandemic Crushed Teachers. After Uvalde, They Wonder ‘What More?’
White House Struggles to Talk About the ‘Problem From Hell’
Nassar Victims Suing F.B.I. for Early Investigative Failures
After Doping Scandal, Figure Skating Will Raise Age Limit to 17
British Journalist and Indigenous Expert Are Missing in Amazon After Threats
6 Takeaways From Tuesday’s Elections
As Survivors Demand Action, House Passes Gun Bill Doomed in the Senate
What to Know About the Assault Lawsuits Against Deshaun Watson
Or, maybe you discovered stories in the Style, International, Sports, Business, Magazine, Arts, U.S., Travel, Science, Health or Smarter Living sections like …
If photos, videos, graphics, illustrations, quizzes or podcasts are more your style, maybe these got your attention …
Or, maybe you came across an interesting essay in the Opinion section, like …
Whatever caught your eye, tell us about it.
Need more details? The contest rules are all here, and you can read the work of last year’s winners here. A quick overview, though:
You can choose from anything published in the print paper or on nytimes.com in 2022, including videos, podcasts, graphics and photographs. (In your response, please include the URL or headline of the piece you pick.)
We’ll post this question each Friday from today through Aug. 12, and you’ll have until the next Friday morning to respond with your picks. Then we’ll close that post and open a new one with the same question.
We’ll choose at least one favorite answer to feature on our site each week. Winners from this week will be announced on June 28.
Feel free to participate each week, but we allow only one submission per person per week.
The contest is open to students ages 11 to 19 from anywhere in the world. If you are 13 or older and live in the United States, or 16 or older from anywhere else in the world, post your response in the comments section. If you are a teacher, parent or guardian of a student or child who is between the ages of 11 and 12 and live in the United States, or 11 and 15 and live in another country, then you must submit an entry on the student’s behalf using the form below. All entries from the comments section and the form below will be judged together.
