Replace, Aug. 4: You possibly can submit your response for Week 9 right here.

Welcome to Week Eight of our 14th Annual Summer season Studying Contest.

This contest is open to college students 13-19 from wherever on the earth. To take part, submit a response by 9 a.m. Japanese on Aug. 4 that solutions the questions “What acquired your consideration in The New York Instances this week? Why?”

In case you are 13 or older and reside in the US, or 16 or older from wherever else on the earth, publish your response within the remark part. In case you are a instructor, mother or father or guardian of a scholar or baby who’s 13-15 and lives exterior the US, see the underside of this publish for particulars on how one can submit.

Responses have to be 1,500 characters — about 250 phrases — or fewer.

What do you have to select? Properly, as you realize from the guidelines we’ve posted, you’ll be able to choose something printed on nytimes.com in 2023, together with articles, essays, movies, pictures, podcasts or graphics.

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Or, possibly you found tales within the Model, Worldwide, Sports activities, Enterprise, Journal, Arts, U.S., Journey, Science, Well being or Smarter Dwelling sections like …

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No matter caught your eye, inform us about it.

Want extra particulars? The competition guidelines are all right here, and you’ll learn the work of final 12 months’s winners right here. A fast overview, although:

• You possibly can select from something printed within the print paper or on nytimes.com in 2023, together with movies, podcasts, graphics and images. (In your response, please embody the URL or headline of the piece you choose.)

• We’ll publish this query every Friday from at present by Aug. 11, and also you’ll have till the following Friday morning to reply along with your picks. Then we’ll shut that publish and open a brand new one with the identical query.

• We’ll select no less than one favourite reply to characteristic on our website every week. Winners from this week will likely be introduced on Aug. 15.

• Be at liberty to take part every week, however we enable just one submission per particular person per week.

• The competition is open to college students ages 13 to 19 from wherever on the earth. In case you are 13 or older and reside in the US, or 16 or older from wherever else on the earth, publish your response within the feedback part. In case you are a instructor, mother or father or guardian of a scholar or baby who’s between the ages of 13 and 15 and lives exterior of the US, then you need to submit an entry on the scholar’s behalf utilizing the shape beneath. All entries from the feedback part and the shape beneath will likely be judged collectively.