I’m the director of an essay contest for local high school students, and as I prepared this year’s prompt, I couldn’t resist the urge to let ChatGPT take a shot at it. The results highlight several of ...

Here are the second- and third-place high school essays in the 2023 Arkansas Peace Week contest. These essays represent the opinions of their authors, not that of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. A few ...

The theme of this year’s high school essay contest was “Filling the Water Workforce Reservoir,” which challenged students to address the pressing workforce crisis in the water industry and propose ...

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