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Virtual and in-person workshops led by our staff and journalists introduce techniques for integrating journalism skills and global news into multidisciplinary curricula. https://youtu.be/4S2WmxCBxic Our paid, virtual Fellowships invite educators to collaborate with award-winning journalists, the

The Pulitzer Center offers two annual writing contests for students and year-round workshops that engage students in journalism skills, media literacy, civic engagement, and creative writing projects. STUDENT CONTESTS We invite K–12 students worldwide to participate in our annual contests: the

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The Pulitzer Center's Behind the Story series serves as a valuable resource about our grantees and their stories, offering insights into why these underreported topics are important and how the journalists reported them. 'Behind the Story' Videos View All Q&As with Pulitzer Center Grantees Pulitzer

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The Pulitzer Center is committed to building global awareness through education. We work with elementary schools, high schools, and universities to bring pressing international issues, and the journalists who cover them, into the classroom. K-12 Programs and Resources Want to inspire your students

By Beatrix Stone 9th grade, Allendale Junior High School, Canada With lines from “Lives Frozen By Conflict” by Paula Bronstein, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Walk along the contact line, Walk the line of life, Walk the bones of human toll, Those pitiful, alive. Watch their weary desperate eyes

By Shelby Merriman 11th grade, Bear Creek High School, CO With lines from “How Texas’s Zombie Oil Wells Are Creating an Environmental Disaster Zone” by Clayton Aldern, Christopher Collins, and Naveena Sadasivam, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Before my siblings and I were born, My mother was

By Taeyeon Han 11th grade, Arnold O. Beckman High School, CA With lines from "Living Planet: Capturing Carbon in Costa Rica" by Daniel Grossman and Dado Galdieri, a Pulitzer Center reporting project i. self-destruction They’re standing on the banks of a river — in a gully – cutting through a wall of

By Penelope Garfunkle 6th grade, St. Paul's Episcopal School, CA With lines from “The Farmer Trying to Save Italy’s Ancient Olive Trees” by Agostino Petroni, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Once bejeweled with pale green leaves, blanketing branches laden with olive-fruit, Now bearing grey bark

By Kiara Imani Adams 12th grade, Silverado High School, NV With lines from "How the Rise of Social Justice in Athletics is Transforming the Identity of Black Athletes in America" by Eric Thompson Jr., a Pulitzer Center reporting project The identity of the Black athlete in America. Someone to be

By Dylan Ragas 11th grade, Germantown Friends School, PA With lines from "Unbroken Courage” by Ingrid Olivia Norrmén-Smith, a Pulitzer Center reporting project They may be in a hibernation state at the moment, like the frog in the dry season. Like the bear resting snug in the winter, or the bats

By Muna Agwa 10th grade, Hathaway Brown School, OH With lines from "For an Agricultural Worker, Supporting His Family Means Being Separated from Them" by Ingrid Holmquist and Sana Malik, a Pulitzer Center reporting project The story of a father and a daughter, of a husband and a wife. Of two nations

By Savannah Powell 12th grade, Herriman High School, UT With lines from “‘Look After My Babies’: in Ethiopia, a Tigray Families Quest” by Cara Anna and Nariman El-Mofty When blood of Tigrayan red became a crime, We learned to paint our faces Our children are re-taught to introduce themselves

By Kavana Anklekar 12th grade, The Orbis School, India With lines from “‘Look After My Babies': In Ethiopia, A TigrayFamily's Quest” by Cara Anna and Nariman El-Mofty, a Pulitzer Center reporting project In Ethiopia, the cradle of humanity, Abraha gently caresses his wife’s pregnant belly. “Tell me

By Shirzad Mustafa 11th grade, Westfield High School, NJ With lines from “Indigenous in São Paulo: Erased by a Colonial Curriculum” by Jennifer Ann Thomas, a Pulitzer Center reporting project You would have us vanish, yet we are here, to prove that we exist incarnation of ancestral ways etched

By Zina Parker 8th grade, North Branch School, VA With lines from "Ballet and Bullets: Dancing out of the Favela" by Frederick Bernas and Rayan Hindi, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Bullets in the atmosphere, cutting short a flourishing career. Without letting her head drop, she continues on

By Emma Karn 12th grade, Sacred Heart Academy, PA 2nd place contest winner With lines from “‘Buzz of a Mosquito...But With the Sound of Grief’: The Lives of India’s Women Prisoners” by Jahnavi Sen, a Pulitzer Center reporting project A callous optimization problem: to fit 45 women in a room so small