MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A junior from St. Johnsbury Academy has won U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ annual State of the Union essay contest.
Sanders’ office says Quinn Nelson Mayo’s essay focused on the importance of media literacy.
Mayo wrote that by teaching America’s youth how to approach sources impartially and critically, “we can fix this problem of misinformation.”
Second place went to Musa Mayange, a Winooski High School senior, who wrote about racism in the United States. And A.J. DeFelice, a freshman at Hartford High School, won third place for an essay about climate change, immigration and income inequality.
The essays were judged by a panel of six Vermont teachers.
The winners and 17 finalists will be invited to a round-table discussion with Sanders, an independent, at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Feb. 4.
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