Runners-Up
Alyse Wicentowski, “Heart”
Angel Zhao and Fiona Xing, “teenage homage”
Bobby Goldyn, 14, “Lost Voices”
Cassie Garrett, 14, “Kindness in the Pandemic”
Dorothy Du, 16, “The Sound of Rain”
Eliana Robin, 15, “Warning: The World is Crumbling”
Eveleen Jiang, 17, “Out of Touch”
Hailey Jones, 15, “Growing Up in 2021”
Hiewon Ahn, “A Cutlery Awakening”
Ilona Lebron, 18, “Painting Something New”
James Kim, 17, “Life was rough.”
Jingyi Yang, 17, “Daydream in Heatwave”
Kalina May, 15, “Shame of Experimenting (in highschool)”
Kasie Leung, 15, “neurons and wings and other fleeting things”
Kevin Park, 16, “The March of Nature”
Kia Brazhnikova, 15, “Impassive”
Leona Su, 15, “Chinatown”
Phoebe Han, 16, “Burdened Puppet”
Selina Zhan, 13; Mia Kang, 14, “Diving into the Device”
Sena Chang, “Triptych: INFODEMIC”
Stella Turowsky-Ganci, 15, “what’s inside my head”
Surya Newa, 17, “To Each Their Own”
Xinyi Zhang, 16, “Me in the Mirror”
Ziqi, “Nest”
Zoey Lestyk, 14, “Just Do It”
Honorable Mentions
Find the full list of students whose submissions received an honorable mention here.
Thank You to Our Judges
The team that helped choose these finalists included educators, Learning Network staff and Times journalists, as well as teenagers who have won previous Learning Network contests. In alphabetical order they were:
Adee Braun, Amanda Brown, William Chesney, Nicole Daniels, Shannon Doyne, Jeremy Engle, Nora Fellas, Ross Flatt, Annissa Hambouz, Henry Hsiao, Michael Gonchar, Karen Hanley, Callie Holtermann, Susan Josephs, Isabel Hui, Isabel Hwang, Phoebe Lett, Simon Levien, Rachel Manley, Sue Mermelstein, John Otis, Natalie Proulx, Katherine Schulten, Ana Sosa, Ananya Udaygiri, Emma Weber, and Clare Zhang
