Welcome to the tenth and last week of our 14th Annual Summer time Studying Contest.

This contest is open to college students 13-19 from anyplace on this planet. To take part, submit a response by 9 a.m. Japanese on Aug. 18 that solutions the questions “What received your consideration in The New York Instances this week? Why?”

In case you are 13 or older and dwell in the USA, or 16 or older from anyplace else on this planet, submit your response within the remark part. In case you are a instructor, mother or father or guardian of a scholar or youngster who’s 13-15 and lives outdoors the USA, see the underside of this submit for particulars on submit.

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

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

So what did you learn, watch or take heed to this week? Perhaps you had been consumed by front-page headlines concerning the wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui or “Barbie” reaching $1 billion on the field workplace — or possibly you had been extra taken with tales a few summer season camp selling physique positivity, how cooking movies took over the world, why ladies’s sports activities are ditching white shorts or whether or not canine parks are literally good for canine.

We don’t care what you select, we simply wish to hear why you selected it.

We hope you’ll click on round nytimes.com and discover your individual nice articles, options and multimedia. However we additionally know that not everybody who participates has a Instances subscription. As a result of all hyperlinks to Instances content material from the scholar options on our website are free, each week we’ll attempt to assist by posting attention-grabbing items from quite a lot of sections.

For instance, this week you might have learn front-page information articles like …

What We Lose to Shoplifting

No matter caught your eye, inform us about it.

Want extra particulars? The competition guidelines are all right here, and you may learn the work of final yr’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 pictures. (In your response, please embrace the URL or headline of the piece you decide.)

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

• We’ll select a minimum of one favourite reply to characteristic on our website every week. Winners from this week will probably be introduced on Aug. 29.

• Be happy to take part every week, however we permit just one submission per particular person per week.

• The competition is open to college students ages 13 to 19 from anyplace on this planet. In case you are 13 or older and dwell in the USA, or 16 or older from anyplace else on this planet, submit your response within the feedback part. In case you are a instructor, mother or father or guardian of a scholar or youngster who’s between the ages of 13 and 15 and lives outdoors of the USA, then you have to submit an entry on the scholar’s behalf utilizing the shape under. All entries from the feedback part and the shape under will probably be judged collectively.