Update, July 2: Winners have been announced!
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Our Tenth Annual Summer Reading Contest begins!
To participate, just post a comment here by 9 a.m. Eastern on June 21 that answers the questions “What interested you most in The Times this week? Why?”
What should you choose? Well, as you know from the rules we’ve posted, you can pick anything published on NYTimes.com in 2019, including articles, essays, Op-Eds, videos, photos, podcasts or infographics.
So what did you read, watch or listen to this week? Maybe you were consumed by front-page headlines about the protests in Hong Kong — or maybe you were more taken with the Women’s World Cup or the Tony Awards.
We hope you’ll click around NYTimes.com and find your own great articles, features and multimedia, but we know that not everyone who participates has a Times subscription. Because all links to Times content from the student features on our site are free, every week we’ll try to help by posting interesting pieces from a variety of sections.
For example, this week you may have read front-page news articles like …
U.S. Takes Apart Thailand and the Record Book at the Women’s World Cup
How the Raptors Won Their First N.B.A. Championship
National Spelling Bee, at a Loss for Words, Crowns 8 Co-Champions
Extradition Protesters in Hong Kong Face Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets
Former Stanford Coach Gets No Prison Time in College Admissions Scandal
Pompeo Says Intelligence Points to Iran in Tanker Attack in Gulf of Oman
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Leaving White House at the End of the Month
‘Why Are So Many of Our Girls Dying?’ Canada Grapples With Violence Against Indigenous Women
Want to Buy a Ticket to the Space Station? NASA Says Soon You Can
Deputy Who Stayed Outside During Parkland School Shooting Faces Criminal Charges
St. Louis Blues Claim the Stanley Cup, Ending a 52-Year Wait
Who Won and What Happened at the 2019 Tony Awards
Or, maybe you discovered stories in the Style, International, Sports, Magazine, Arts, U.S., Travel, Science or Smarter Living sections like …
‘Booksmart’ and How Hollywood Stopped Fearing Lesbian Teens
A Financial Checklist for Your Newly Minted High School Graduate
Few Talked About Race at This School. Then a Student Posted a Racist Slur.
When Social Media Is Really Problematic for Adolescents
Ali Stroker Makes History as First Wheelchair User to Win a Tony
30 Years After Tiananmen, a Chinese Military Insider Warns: Never Forget
Practical Ways to Improve Your Confidence (and Why You Should)
These Girls’ Soccer Players Joined Boys’ Leagues. And Dominated.
The Queen of Eating Shellfish Online
Birthright Trips, a Rite of Passage for Many Jews, Are Now a Target of Protests
The Central Park Five: ‘We Were Just Baby Boys’
What if Instagram Got Rid of Likes?
So You’ve Made a Huge Mistake. What Now?
The Vampire Birds of the Galápagos Have Fascinating Inner Lives
Overlooked No More: Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary
The Making of a YouTube Radical
Wherever You Are, There’s a State Park Nearby
16-Year-Olds Want a Vote. Fifty Years Ago, So Did 18-Year-Olds.
Teenage Girls and Dating Violence: Why We Should Be Paying Attention
Modern Love College Essay Contest 2019
If photos, videos, interactives, graphics or podcasts are more your style, maybe these got your attention …
Buildings Can Be Designed to Withstand Earthquakes. Why Doesn’t the U.S. Build More of Them?
Who Threw the First Brick at Stonewall? Let’s Argue About It
108 Women’s World Cup Players on Their Jobs, Money and Sacrificing Everything
Spelling Bee Quiz: Do You Know the Meanings of the Winning Words?
D-Day in Photos: Heroes of a More Certain Time
Goodbye Muddah, Goodbye Fadduh
New York City’s Evolving Skyline
The Book Review Podcast: What to Read This Summer
Or, maybe you came across an interesting essay in the Opinion section, like …
‘We Either Buy Insulin or We Die’
The Anti-College Is on the Rise
We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster.
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Whatever caught your eye, tell us about it in the comments.
Need more details? The contest rules are all here, and you can read the work of last year’s winners here. A quick overview, though:
• You can choose from anything published in the print paper or on NYTimes.com in 2019, including videos, podcasts, graphics and photographs. (In your response, please include the URL or headline of the piece you pick.)
• We’ll post this question each Friday from today through Aug. 16, and you’ll have until the next Friday morning to respond with your picks. Then we’ll close that post and open a new one with the same question.
• We’ll choose at least one favorite answer to feature on our site each week. Winners from this week will be announced on July 2.
• Feel free to participate each week, but we allow only one submission per person per week.
• The contest is open to students ages 13 to 19 from anywhere in the world.
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While this is the only Student Opinion question we’ll be asking this summer, here is our section that features hundreds of writing prompts still open to comment.
