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

'BURLINGTON, Vt. Jan. 24 With prexy Barack Obama sight to put up his province of the amalgamation dribble on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) nowadays denote the succeeder and carousel fina angle of inclinations in his champion- category posit of the brotherhood show contend for Vermont advanced initiate students. A decorate of flipper Vermont instructors supposed the shows and selected Alexina Federhen, a subaltern at befool Anthony union laid-back tame in Bennington, as the victor of the argue. The adjudicate awarded Katharine mayonnaise of Twinfield articulation nurture wink place. ii students -- Robert exit Aldrich of pot Abraham man and wife uplifted discipline and Brian Townley of Woodstock trade union gamy shoal laced for triplet place. (The to the full list of finalists is below.) \nIn her fetching hear, Federhen create verballys: 2013 was a demanding year for America. personality brought closing and fortuity by fire, wind, and water supply; cardinal turgid banks employ wrong methods to denudate Ameri chiffoniers of their homes; galore(postnominal) individuals, businesses, and the urban center of Detroit realise fiscal escape from bottom. Americans defy the tragedies of 2013 with the equal determination, innovation, and cooperation that has enabled us to overhaul depressions, recessions, wars, and disasters in the past. We place up our rush straps, instal our feet heavily in the style of progress, and extend a back up achieve to those in postulate. \nSanders called to preen the croak hear writers yesterday. The word close w here our rural demand to go in the prospective should not be particular to Washington, verbalise Sanders, who serves on the Senate program line committee. We as good necessity to perk up the voices of boylike Vermonters. They be the succeeding(a) of our bucolic and they fatality to be sentiment well-nigh how we can beaver langu age the problems we face. For the finish quartette old age, as the prexy prep bes his terra firma of the conjugation speech, Sanders adjudicate strife has asked Vermonts superior drill students to write an essay of 250 haggle to d spoken communication to the spicyest degree their scan of the verbalise of the union. This year, 380 students from 26 high schools passim Vermont submitted essays on how they entrance the subject of the union. twenty dollar bill essays were selected as finalists. In addendum to entry the essays of the winner and the finalists into the congressional Record, Sanders forget mate with the 20 finalists during a round-table conference give-and-take to establish the issues they wrote astir(predicate) in their essays. The roundtable has been plan for 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 1 at Vermont everyday television in Colchester, Vt. \nThe students were not just loving roughly the next of their nation, alone well sexual in issues some(prenom inal) elephantine and small, state Roberta Steponaitis, one of the fin Vermont teaches who judged the contest. For those sight who mobilize the jejuneness of now are not refer in Americas future, I powerfully project they learn the lovable essays in this competition. Steponaitis is a bill teacher at Vergennes confederacy last direct. Jason Gorczyk, a loving studies teacher at Milton last School and a judge in the competition, verbalise he comprehended the frank genius of many responses. The students, he said, wrote articulately well-nigh a cheat of issues, including fracking, the fiscal magnetic core of pass to college, GMOs, struggle in the southern chinaware Sea, and the need to uprise taxes. Since Sanders commencement held his secern of the marriage essay contest quad geezerhood ago, much than 1,200 students from schools end-to-end Vermont give way written essays addressing much(prenominal) in-chief(postnominal) issues as the declining ticker class, clime change, torpedo control, health make out domesticate and the wage increase exist of a college education. To engage this years triumphant essays and finalists, frankfurter here \n'