Welcome to Week Two of our 13th Annual Summer Reading Contest.
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 24 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.
Responses must be 1,500 characters — about 250 words — or fewer.
What should you choose? Well, as you know from the rules we’ve posted, you can pick anything published on nytimes.com in 2022, including articles, essays, videos, photos, podcasts or infographics.
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 …
Dozens of White Supremacists Arrested in Idaho Had Planned to Riot, Authorities Say
Bear Market Sends Grim Signal of Economic Fears
Brutal Beating of Women in China Highlights Risk of Saying ‘No’
Fed Takes Aggressive Action in Inflation Fight
U.S. and Allies Pledge Additional Arms for Ukraine, but Kyiv Wants More
F.D.A. Panel Recommends Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines for Youngest Children
Flooding Chaos in Yellowstone, a Sign of Crises to Come
Raft by Raft, a Rainforest Loses Its Trees
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 …
Helping Very Hungry Caterpillars Become Butterflies — It’s Complicated
Why Strangers Are Good for Us
‘I Ache for Change’: Students on School Shootings After Uvalde
11 Small Ways You Can Help Mend the World
Civil Rights Activists Fought for America’s Democracy. They Should Be Honored as Veterans.
This Company Knows How to Increase Students’ Test Scores
My Father Makes Me So Angry. I Take Care of Him Anyway.
‘I Feel Proud, and I Feel Mad as Hell’: Gloria Steinem on Ms. Magazine and Feminism Today
After the Jan. 6 Hearings, Will Trump Face Criminal Charges?
Five Blunt Truths About the War in Ukraine
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. Please note that winners from this week will be announced on Wednesday, July 6, instead of Tuesday, because of the Independence Day holiday that week.
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.
