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Sickness of the Sprawling City By Alex Holland11th grade, Montgomery Blair High School, MD 1st place contest winner With lines from the following Pulitzer Center reporting projects: "Glass Closet: Sex, Stigma, and HIV/AIDS in Jamaica" by Micah Fink, Gabrielle Weiss, and Lisa Biagiotti "An Uneasy

Surf By Beatrix Stone6th grade, Alice Deal Middle School, DC 2nd place contest winner With Lines from "Social Media Turned These Girls into Stars. It Also Made Them Targets." by Doug Bock Clark, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Cool wavesCall meBreathe mistUnto my naked feetThey call meFor I

When It's Gone By Isabel Brosseau Gray7th grade, French Broad River Academy for Girls, NC 3rd place contest winner With lines from "Venezuelans Suffer Deadly Scarcity of Food and Medicine" by Nadja Drost and Bruno Federico, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Mama,I want food.The pantryis empty. The

Ayúdame By Miranda Rodriguez9th grade, Staples High School, CT 3rd place contest winner With lines from "Venezuela's Days of Upheaval" by Natalie Keyssar, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Venezuelans ask, how much worse can it get? Arepas, Salto Angel y música en toda la calleThen I saw the

The Call By Dena Hill9th grade, Parkway Center City Middle College, PA With lines from "Domestic Abuse in Russia" by Nick Schifrin and Zach Fannin, a Pulitzer Center reporting project And you say call us when he kills youBut she's already deadEveryday pain – heartache – that's what she dreadsYou

Bury You By Gabriel Ticau9th grade, Santa Clara High School, CA With lines from "The Life and Death of Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Organizer in Guerrero, Mexico" by Kara Andrade, a Pulitzer Center reporting project They surrounded him pushed him to the unforgiving ground The bitter mud stains his teeth

Summer in Chicago By Emmy Song10th grade, Montgomery Blair High School, MD With lines from "A New Beginning: Ondelee Perteet" by Carlos Javier Ortiz, a Pulitzer Center reporting project this is summer in chicago and thisis how we live. roughened feet poundon burning sidewalks in pursuit ofsafety, a

I'm Invisible Sifan Kabeta4th grade, Shepherd Elementary School, DC With lines from "In California, Salinan Indians Are Trying to Reclaim Their Culture and Their Land" by Allison Herrera, a Pulitzer Center reporting project I feel like I'm invisible just like the Salinan peopleI don't know what my

WINNERS AND LOSERS By Luís Eduardo Guerreiro Pimentel9th grade, Colegio Miguel de Cervantes, Brazil With lines from "The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea" by Evan Osnos, a Pulitzer Center reporting project​ They are coming, they are coming!Threats and deaths;Winners and losers;Families running

The Run Down By Nabeeha Asim 11th grade, Dominion High School, VA With lines from "Deadly Journeys: How Despair Drives Young Ethiopians to Flee to Yemen" by Tom Gardner and Charlie Rosser, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Scattered steps taken in every direction in the place named the Run Down

The Maze By Yende Mangum10th grade, Julia R. Masterman High School, PA With lines from "The Burning Heart of Africa" by Peter Gwin and Marcus Bleasdale, a Pulitzer Center reporting project You have to navigate a mazeA constellation of electric colorsAn island home to 597 speciesBut violence still

Discovering Home By Amelia Ferrari6th grade, DC International School, DC With lines from "Inside the Lives of 4 Syrian Refugee Families" by Aryn Baker, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Where do we belong? Where do we go when the storms rage and the fires blaze And when we seek shelter Where do we

To them the story has one side By Megan Kleiner9th grade, Staples High School, CT With lines from "Guns in Chicago: 'It's the Adrenaline, Man'" by Rieke Havertz, a Pulitzer Center reporting project To them the story has one side MurdererRobberAnd most importantly Prisoner Not

Don't Push My Buttons By Charlotte Fox10th grade, Julia R. Masterman High School, PA With lines from "The Risk of Nuclear War With North Korea" by Evan Osnos, a Pulitzer Center reporting project After a long pause, a skinny boy with two medals pinned to his chest stood and asked, "Why is America

On the Same Path By Molly H. Rufus10th grade, Homeschooled, VA With lines from "Colombia: After the Violence" by Sara Reardon, Greg Kendall-Ball, and Adam Levy, a Pulitzer Center reporting project After the Violence I thought, "I'm face to face with a monster."War had positioned him to think the

My Demon, Depression By Sydney Adamske6th grade, Alice Deal Middle School, DC With lines from "A Global State of Mind" by Joanne Silberner, a Pulitzer Center reporting project The world just didn't seem to care.How am I not noticed?It asks from inside the depths of your soul.Yet you still keep it

Summit Bechtel Reserve Project Overview In early 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek embarked on a reporting mission to walk the same 21,000 mile path that modern humans took from Africa to South America over the course of roughly 50,000 years

Northern Tier Project Overview In early 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek embarked on a reporting mission to walk the same 21,000 mile path that modern humans took from Africa to South America over the course of roughly 50,000 years. The