Our winner this week, our 10th and final week of the contest, does so exceptionally well. Before you read Ava’s essay, we want to share some reflections from a few student participants and judges about their experiences with the 2020 Summer Reading Contest. Reflections From Student ParticipantsThis year, we put a call out to students to tell us about what it was like to participate in the Summer Reading Contest. I cannot emphasize how reading articles of people helping others in this strange time kept restoring my faith in humanity. Ava wrote that the contest helped her feel connected in this time of social isolation:This year’s summer reading contest has helped me learn not only about the world around me, but about myself.

Source: New York Times September 01, 2020 14:03 UTC