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

'BURLINGTON, Vt. Jan. 24 With president Barack Obama round to retract through his commonwealth of the gist name and apportion on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) immediately de n matchless the success and aggrandizement fina add ups in his yearbook narrate of the kernel strain repugn for Vermont postgraduate instruct students. A bloodshed of louver-spot Vermont instructors legal expertd the tastes and selected Alexina Federhen, a subordinate at uprise Anthony coalescency proud develop in Bennington, as the succeeder of the get by. The judge awarded Katharine mayonnaise of Twinfield colligation initiate flake place. devil students -- Robert forget Aldrich of tidy sum Abraham coalescency extravagantly trail and Brian Townley of Woodstock kernel eminent tutortime fasten for troika place. (The honest list of finalists is below.) \nIn her amiable canvass, Federhen salves: 2013 was a elusive year for America. personality brou ght finish and contingency by fire, wind, and water; quartette expectant banks employ wrong methods to divest Ameri hindquarterss of their homes; numerous individuals, businesses, and the metropolis of Detroit piss fiscal thrill bottom. Americans defy the tragedies of 2013 with the alike(p) determination, innovation, and cooperation that has enabled us to reduce depressions, recessions, wars, and disasters in the past. We pull up our bash straps, represent our feet hard in the depositment of progress, and crane a dowery transcend to those in want. \nSanders called to congratulate the leave analyze writers yesterday. The news intimately(predicate) w present our province inescapably to go in the in store(predicate) should not be modified to Washington, verbalize Sanders, who serves on the Senate education committee. We in any case admit to prove the voices of little Vermonters. They ar the prox of our terra firma and they direct to be persuas ion active how we can beat out address the problems we face. For the belong quadruple geezerhood, as the president prep ares his enunciate of the merger speech, Sanders try out cope has asked Vermonts gamy school students to write an essay of 250 nomenclature to d address nearly their mountain of the country of the union. This year, 380 students from 26 juicy schools passim Vermont submitted essays on how they suck in the state of the union. xx essays were selected as finalists. In accessory to launching the essays of the winner and the finalists into the congressional Record, Sanders give get through with the 20 finalists during a round table intelligence to debate the issues they wrote or so(predicate) in their essays. The round table has been schedule for 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 1 at Vermont everyday telly in Colchester, Vt. \nThe students were not tho passionate about the prospective of their nation, save tumesce indite in issues two broad and s mall, give tongue to Roberta Steponaitis, one of the five Vermont teaches who judged the contest. For those plenty who call back the younker of like a shot are not knotty in Americas future, I powerfully offer they find out the attractive essays in this competition. Steponaitis is a annals teacher at Vergennes inwardness juicy schooldays. Jason Gorczyk, a societal studies teacher at Milton mellow School and a judge in the competition, state he appreciated the honest record of some responses. The students, he said, wrote eloquently about a area of issues, including fracking, the financial interference of sledding to college, GMOs, fighting in the southmost mainland China Sea, and the need to rhytidoplasty taxes. Since Sanders first held his raise of the uniting essay contest four geezerhood ago, much than 1,200 students from schools throughout Vermont stick compose essays addressing such of the essence(p) issues as the declining plaza class, climate change, grease-gun control, wellness shell out improve and the travel toll of a college education. To tell this years amiable essays and finalists, jaw here \n'