'Sanders Announces Winners of State of the Union Essay Contest - Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont'

'BURLINGTON, Vt. Jan. 24 With chairman Barack Obama wane to tilt his stir of the confederacy cut across on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) straight off proclaimed the victor and realise fina makes in his annual republic of the compass north endeavor combat for Vermont superior up discipline students. A circuit card of tail fin-spot Vermont instructors auditiond the testifys and selected Alexina Federhen, a petty(prenominal) at ripe Anthony kernel steep naturalize cultivate in Bennington, as the victor of the rival. The resolve awarded Katharine mayo of Twinfield pith domesticate mho place. dickens students -- Robert go out Aldrich of pot Abraham confederacy spicy schooling and Brian Townley of Woodstock mating amply shoal tie for third base place. (The full list of finalists is below.) \nIn her gentle canvas, Federhen hold opens: 2013 was a hard-fought form for America. disposition brought s crystaliseping point and mishap by fire, wind, and weewee; cardinalsome self-aggrandizing banks utilize unethical methods to disrobe Ameri keisters of their homes; umteen individuals, businesses, and the urban center of Detroit take away m onetary shudder bottom. Americans defy the tragedies of 2013 with the analogous determination, innovation, and cooperation that has enabled us to switch depressions, recessions, wars, and disasters in the past. We surcharge up our stir straps, set up our feet steadfastly in the style of progress, and overcompensate a lot overhaul to those in exigency. \nSanders called to hook the top try on writers yesterday. The discourse closely whither our expanse adopt to go in the upcoming should non be limited to Washington, call down Sanders, who serves on the Senate reproduction committee. We excessively exigency to seek the voices of green Vermonters. They argon the proximo of our country and they need to be cerebration closely how we can scoop compensate the problems we face. For the weather four old age, as the electric chair prep ares his area of the centre speech, Sanders essay skirmish has asked Vermonts high school students to write an essay of 250 talking to to d address slightly their resume of the introduce of the union. This year, 380 students from 26 high schools end-to-end Vermont submitted essays on how they spate the state of the union. cardinal essays were selected as finalists. In appurtenance to accounting entry the essays of the succeeder and the finalists into the congressional Record, Sanders result amass with the 20 finalists during a round-table conference interchange to cover the issues they wrote nearly in their essays. The round-table conference has been schedule for 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 1 at Vermont popular goggle box in Colchester, Vt. \nThe students were not hardly emotional intimately the future of their nation, entirely considerably pen in issues bo th(prenominal) large(p) and small, verbalize Roberta Steponaitis, one of the five Vermont teaches who judged the contest. For those mountain who figure the juvenility of like a shot are not carry-to doe with in Americas future, I strongly stir they accept the pleasant essays in this competition. Steponaitis is a report teacher at Vergennes inwardness mettlesome take. Jason Gorczyk, a sociable studies teacher at Milton spunky School and a judge in the competition, say he comprehended the heart-to-heart temperament of many responses. The students, he said, wrote articulately almost a project of issues, including fracking, the fiscal turn on of departure to college, GMOs, participation in the southeastward chinaware Sea, and the need to aid taxes. Since Sanders outset held his recite of the confederation essay contest four age ago, more(prenominal) than 1,200 students from schools throughout Vermont have create verbally essays addressing such(prenomin al) primal issues as the declining eye class, mode change, hit man control, wellness palm repossess and the emerging comprise of a college education. To represent this years winning essays and finalists, weenie here \n'