2025 Essay Topic: Youth Civic Engagement
Essays should explore and provide solutions to questions like: How can youth use their voices, skills, and time as mechanisms for positive change in their neighborhoods, schools, and cities? What are some of the challenges to civic participation for young people? What are some ways that youth can scale those hurdles to achieve collective impact and better their communities?
Group 1
Essays must be a minimum of 1,500 words. The winning essays will be judged on how the student articulates impact, examines challenges, proposed solutions, and presentation (i.e. sentence structure and source citation).
Question 1a
Write an essay exploring how youth can use their voices, skills, and time as mechanisms for positive change in their neighborhoods, schools, and cities. Discuss the challenges to civic participation for young people and propose solutions for overcoming these hurdles to achieve collective impact and better their communities.
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