Your submission should indirectly reply to our focus query: What are you able to present or inform us that may assist clarify what it’s wish to be an educator or a pupil in a secondary college proper now?

Please word: Your accompanying artist’s assertion will give you a spot to elucidate how your work connects to a number of of those questions, even when the piece itself doesn’t make that apparent.

You’ll be able to work alone or with others. You’ll be able to work with folks your personal age, or throughout ages, roles and even faculties. For instance, a trainer and college students may work collectively on a submission, as may college students collaborating in a membership with chapters throughout faculties. Nonetheless, your identify may be on just one submission.

You’ll be able to submit something you’ll be able to add to our system digitally. Please see the “What to Submit” part for extra element. Please additionally just be sure you have set your permissions in order that YouTube and SoundCloud hyperlinks aren’t personal.

You might submit an artifact you’ve gotten already created, akin to a picture or screenshot out of your digicam roll, or you may make one thing new.

Your submission may be humorous or unhappy, uncooked or polished. It may be deeply private or, with their permission, can replicate the experiences of others.

It’s as much as you what to specific, so long as you deal with a number of of our focus questions. Our associated information — coming quickly! — can have many examples to encourage you.

Whenever you submit your entry, it’s essential to fill out an artist’s assertion of as much as 400 phrases telling us when, the place, how and why you created the piece, and the way it pertains to our theme of secondary college in 2023.

As our rubric exhibits, this assertion is a vital a part of the submission, so we hope you’ll craft it rigorously. See extra data within the F.A.Q. under.

If you’re submitting writing, whatever the style, it should not be greater than 450 phrases. Our kind means that you can use line breaks and spacing as you select. (This doesn’t embrace the accompanying artist’s assertion, the place you’ll have an extra 400 phrases to explain your challenge and its relevance to our themes.)

Movies and audio recordings may be not than two minutes. (Video ought to be uploaded to YouTube, and audio ought to be uploaded to SoundCloud. You’ll want to supply the URL and ensure you haven’t set your add to “personal.”)

All submissions have to be authentic and embrace solely your personal work. For instance, in the event you create a collage, not one of the photographs can come from the work of others. Equally, you can not submit a screenshot or picture of another person’s social media submit or art work. You might, nevertheless, take a screenshot of a textual content dialog you had or a Google search you carried out.

Please make sure to use non-copyrighted sound results or music for any video or audio items. You can not use copyrighted sound results or music for the only objective of creating your podcast sound higher. As an alternative, you will discover royalty-free music and sound results on Freesound and SoundBible, or by doing an internet seek for royalty-free information. It’s also possible to use audio enhancing software program to create your personal music or sound results.

You can not submit something you’ve gotten already revealed elsewhere, together with in a faculty newspaper. You’ll be able to, nevertheless, ship in work you’ve gotten posted on social media, so long as the work is your personal. (Please don’t ship a hyperlink to the social media submit itself; simply ship the work.)

We perceive that a few of what you wish to specific is likely to be delicate. Although we’d like your full identify and particulars whenever you submit, if we publish your piece we will work with you to maintain some figuring out particulars personal. As well as, please maintain the privateness of others in thoughts. It’s essential to get hold of permission in the event you {photograph} or videotape different folks, or use their full names.

Please additionally remember that The New York Instances is a household newspaper, so your submission ought to be acceptable for a broad viewers. (For example, please keep away from cursing.)

You have to be an grownup working in a secondary or highschool in any capability, or a pupil age 13 to 19 attending a secondary or highschool, to take part. Homeschooled college students who’re between 13 and 19 and participate in organized studying or extracurricular actions with others are additionally welcome to submit. All college students should have mother or father or guardian permission to enter. Please see the F.A.Q. part for extra eligibility particulars.

All entries have to be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on Oct. 4, 2023, utilizing the competition entry kind under.

Our unit plan on documenting and reflecting on teenage lives

The successful work from the 2020, 2021, and 2022 Coming of Age contest, a lot of which addresses life at school

An version of our Mentor Textual content collection that makes use of pupil work to point out learn how to discover artifacts or create new items that say one thing distinctive

A step-by-step information we created for the Coming of Age contest

A reader-submitted piece known as “‘The Discovered Venture’: How We Constructed Neighborhood With the Coming of Age Unit,” which features a full curriculum and pupil work to point out you ways a unit like this may look within the classroom

Our guide, “Coming of Age in 2020,” which options almost 200 works by youngsters — together with images, comics, diary entries, work, charts, texts, recipes and rants — to doc that unforgettable yr