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These students take part in the Sharp Seminar, a joint initiative between the Pulitzer Center and William & Mary, supported by Anne and Barry Sharp. Students learn how to translate their academic interests into journalistic work and to communicate with audiences beyond the academic world.

By Oliver Lee 11th grade, Arrowhead Union High School, WI With lines from “ Georgia ‘Doesn’t Care About Me’: LGBTQ Struggles Worsen Under Lockdown ” by Chloé Lula, a Pulitzer Center reporting project The thing about fire is, it’s not just one color. It’s orange, yes, and yellow and white, and blue

By Kayla Maame Sarpong Kessie 11th grade, SOS-Hermann Gmeiner International College, Ghana With lines from “COVID’s Darkest Effects: How the Pandemic May Fuel Child Trafficking in Ghana” by Kira Leadholm, a Pulitzer center reporting project Fields of cassava stretch, green, bountiful, not enough

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

By Mary Roche 11th grade, Eastchester High School, NY With lines from "The Farmer Trying to Save Italy’s Ancient Olive Trees" by Agostino Petroni, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Step into the ghost forest. The unearthly woodland is not haunted, Just dead. How do you kill the unkillable? The

By Emma Lee 9th grade, Stanton College Preparatory School, FL With lines from “Finding Moments of Grace and Gold in the Midst of a Pandemic” by Naomi Marcus, a Pulitzer Center reporting project i. a lukewarm berry engorged by a sticky web of dew and tears unfurling with the sour decay of reality

By Jacklyn Vandermel 10th grade, Northern Valley Regional High School, NJ 1st place contest winner With lines from “The Victims and Those Left Behind” by Mary F. Calvert, a Pulitzer Center reporting project claim 28 uranium mine, february 2020 bits of rheum like uranium glass form around the navajo