There were over 11,000 submissions to the New York Times' 3rd annual personal narrative contest. Of those, 202 were selected as finalists. GCISD student Kayla Tran's narrative, "Lost in Wonderland" was selected as one of those finalists. You can read Kayla's full piece here. The Times' article about the contest and complete list of finalists were published in January 2022. 

New York Times: Coming of Age in 2020

There were 5,500 submissions nationwide to the New York Times' contest, Coming of Age in 2020. Of those, 245 were selected as finalists, and GCISD ASPIRE freshmen made up six of those finalists. One GCISD student, Anisha, was then selected as one of the 35 "Featured Finalists" published in the newspaper in March 2021. Below is a list of all GCISD finalists, as well as links to their pieces.

• Anisha Menezes - Freshman Year at Corona Highschool and artist's statement

• Rondale Carridine - Year Reset and artist's statement

• Evie Garcia - 2:38 PM and artist's statement

• Ryan Hamilton - Wait and artist's statement

• Olivia Nevin - Reunited and artist's statement

• Eric Tong - Life Simulator and artist's statement

New York Times: Student Editorial

There were 11,202 submissions worldwide to the The New York Times's 2021 editorial contest. Of those, there were 10 winners, 16 runners-up and 26 honorable mentions. GCISD student Mary Schnautz's editorial "The Adverse Pitfalls of AP Classes" was selected as one of the 16 runners-up. You can read her work here. The piece was published here.