By Steve Collins | Board president
Youth Journalism International students have been covering presidential campaigns for two decades. But there's never been one quite like this year's version.
Last winter, one of our students in Iowa, Garret Reich, managed to catch appearances by a host of candidates: Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton. She probably deserves a medal for her efforts.
A Connecticut teen, Max Turgeon, has written a couple of opinion pieces weighing in on the race from a Republican perspective. His most recent says that Trump is in trouble, but still deserves GOP support
But perhaps the most dramatic is a first-person essay that Ruth Onyirimba wrote in August after going to a Trump rally with the intention of protesting the Republican nominee. You can read her piece here or, in a first for YJI, you can listen to her read it here.
There are many, many other stories that have nothing to do with the election, of course. YJI students span the globe, writing about an astonishing range of issues, taking pictures and providing a glimpse into the world that young people are going to create. Thank you for helping to make it all possible.
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