Zoe Goor, a student at California's Harvard-Westlake School, who wrote a persuasive and well-informed opinion piece for her school paper explaining why private schools like hers should follow the California mandate to start all high schools no earlier than 8:30 a.m. The project was praised for its clear, concise writing colorful illustrations and well-sourced evidence and arguments and call to action.

Teagyn Ager, an 8th grader at Michigan's Wyoming Junior High, for her project 'Schools Should Start at a Later Time,' which won first place in her school's inaugural Argument Fair. Hallie Dong, a student at North Allegheny High School, whose featured commentary in Western Pennsylvania's TribLive made a well-researched, compelling argument for later school start times. start times for the next school year at Grants Pass High School. Richard Izquierdo Health & Science Charter, who created a podcast for Chalkbeat New York by interviewing sleep experts, fellow students, and the head of his school on the pressing need to start school at times that allow students to get enough sleep.Īnika LaFrance-Hernandez, an Oregon high school student, who used research grounding California's statewide 'start school later' law to instigate a change to 8:30 a.m.

Jose Santana, a junior at the Bronx's Dr.

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