{"id":2221,"date":"2026-06-09T16:36:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:36:52","slug":"these-teens-are-vying-to-win-trumps-civics-contest-some-have-mixed-feelings-about-patriotism-and-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2221","title":{"rendered":"These teens are vying to win Trump\u2019s civics contest. Some have mixed feelings about patriotism and the president"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div> <div>\n<button>\n<strong>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Summary<\/span>\n<\/strong>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Twenty high school students are competing this week for as much as $150,000 in scholarship money through the Presidential 1776 Award.<\/li>\n<li>The contest is part of the Trump administration&#8217;s effort to promote patriotism for America&#8217;s 250th birthday.<\/li>\n<li>Students expressed mixed feelings about participating, with some questioning what patriotism means when they disagree with government leaders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Earlier this year, Ishant Jawali, a 16-year-old from Raleigh, North Carolina, was scrolling on Instagram when he stumbled upon a little-known way to win money for college: The Trump administration was putting on a national civics contest for America\u2019s 250th birthday.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2205\">Social Security retirement trust fund will run dry in 2032 unless Congress acts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            He signed up, becoming one of about 8,000 high school students entering for the chance to win a scholarship worth up to $150,000.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            After rounds of contests, he is one of 20 finalists for the Presidential 1776 Award competition,one of the Trump administration\u2019s main efforts to promote patriotism in young people as part of its programming for the country\u2019s big birthday.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Jawali and other contestants who spoke to CNN expressed nuanced reasons for participating, along with their feelings about the contest\u2019s connections to President DonaldTrump and the idea of patriotism itself.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI feel like it\u2019s a bit of a loaded word, at least to me, like it\u2019s hard to be patriotic,\u201d Jawali said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to really understand what that means when there\u2019s so many things that you disagree with the leaders of our government about.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The contest, which begins Tuesday at the Kennedy Center, will be broadcast on CBS at the end of the month and includes a White House visit for the top three finishers.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But the anticipatory rush has come with mixed feelings and thorny questions about what it means for young people to be patriotic in the age of Trump, at a time when Gen Z is increasingly pessimistic about the country\u2019s future.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;While some finalists in the Presidential 1776 Award competition support Donald Trump, others express mixed feelings about participating in a history contest associated with him.&lt;\/p&gt;\" class=\"wp-image-2214\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/38cb8abdd8367c1ed966c33b0cca15fb-768x432.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/38cb8abdd8367c1ed966c33b0cca15fb-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/38cb8abdd8367c1ed966c33b0cca15fb-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/38cb8abdd8367c1ed966c33b0cca15fb.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Some students in Trump&#8217;s civics contest want the scholarships, but not the politics\n                <\/div>\n<div>\n<span>\n                                        \n        \n            \n            \n        0:51\n                            <\/span>\n<span> \u2022 Source:\n                \n                    CNN\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;While some finalists in the Presidential 1776 Award competition support Donald Trump, others express mixed feelings about participating in a history contest associated with him.&lt;\/p&gt;\" class=\"wp-image-2215\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dee64743c3bb4e376f04bef31b4c1e25.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dee64743c3bb4e376f04bef31b4c1e25.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dee64743c3bb4e376f04bef31b4c1e25-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" 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making\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            The idea for the 1776 Award dates to Trump\u2019s first term, when he created an education-focused panel called the 1776 commission as an answer to The New York Times\u2019 \u201c1619 Project,\u201d which he dismissed as \u201ctoxic propaganda.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In his second term, Trump reestablished both the commission and the contest as he seeks to put an end to what he has called \u201cradical indoctrination\u201d in schools across the country.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The contest is run by his Education Department, which under Secretary Linda McMahon has bolstered the administration\u2019s ideological allies and made promoting civics a key initiative, even as much of the agency has been dismantled.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            McMahon has emphasized civic education in schools, doling out just over $150 million last fall in grant awards for nonprofits\u2019 and universities\u2019 civics and history programs.The department has also launched the America 250 Civics Education Coalition, made up of groups that promote classical Christian education, school choice and conservative policies.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The agency has touted the civics competition as a way of producing more patriotic Americans: \u201cThe Presidential 1776 Award reflects a belief central to American education: that informed students become patriotic citizens, and patriotic citizens are essential to the future of the Republic,\u201d Murray Bessette, an Education Department official and classical education proponent, wrote in a blog post earlier this year.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Trump and his administration loomed large over the contest \u2014 and in some contestants\u2019 minds.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            High school senior MaconHarrell, a finalist from Mississippi, said at first he was concerned about how history could be interpreted by the judges and that they would avoid \u201cdark parts\u201d of the nation\u2019s past. Trump has issued several executive orders that critics say attempt to rewrite history and ignore difficult questions about America\u2019s past, including about slavery and the struggles of minority groups.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Harrell decided to participate and said his concern has not been borne out. \u201cI don\u2019t think that this competition, shockingly, has sugarcoated what our nation is,\u201d the 18-year-old said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Though some aspects have been conventional \u2014 multiple-choice questions about subjects like key battles of the American Revolution or concepts in the Federalist Papers \u2014 others have been less so, according to Jawali.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            At his regional competition, contestants were given wearable cameras to make videos of one another and free hats with the year \u201c1776\u201d stitched on front \u2014 which he said reminded him of some Trump-branded merchandise.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rowan Kozminski\" class=\"wp-image-2216\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/41ffc116e5651a3fbbde589ed9a56fad.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/41ffc116e5651a3fbbde589ed9a56fad.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/41ffc116e5651a3fbbde589ed9a56fad-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Rowan Kozminski<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>CNN<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Contestants have spent hours a day over the past several weeks preparing for the final round.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Rowan Kozminski, 16, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, studied for the competition virtually with a friend in Florida who competed in the earlier rounds. Summer Brondstetter, 17, of Seattle, said she became more invested as she progressed through the contest, sometimes studying with her dad for two to three hours a day.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2203\">Longtime Epstein assistant paints late sex offender as master manipulator and denies knowing about his crimes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Many who spoke to CNN described the camaraderie they felt with other students in the competition, logging hours quizzing one another with flashcards.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        Gen Z assesses America\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            After clinching a finalist spot, Jawali wrestled with whether his peers might mistake his participation for support for the administration, he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI definitely had a thought in the back of my mind, like, \u2018OK, what does it say about me if I\u2019m doing this thing?\u2019 but I think that money, and also the sort of topic, was enough for me to overcome that,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI don\u2019t know if the competition has been super successful in selling patriotism, to be honest; it\u2019s a lot of people talking about the principles and being engaged about that, but again, like a big motivation that I saw amongst the people, and I guess amongst myself, was financial,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ishant Jawali\" class=\"wp-image-2217\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25bcfad8ed34e4008ea1afa15acfcc13.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25bcfad8ed34e4008ea1afa15acfcc13.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25bcfad8ed34e4008ea1afa15acfcc13-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Ishant Jawali<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>CNN<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Others felt no such conflict.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThis is not a political issue. This is an American issue,\u201d said Brondstetter, the student from Seattle, who said she is a supporter of the president. \u201cEveryone walking away from the competition knowing this is the greatest country of the world \u2014 why the Constitution works, why government exists \u2014 that is the most important gift in the world.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Kozminski, the student from Michigan, acknowledged that he thought Trump\u2019s Department of Education has done a lot of \u201ccontentious\u201d things, but said he thought the contest was one thing it got right.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI think that they have missed the mark on certain other policy goals, but I think this is a big success to be able to celebrate students that have this level of achievement \u2014 regardless of what president it\u2019s under,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;Students share what patriotism means to them&lt;\/p&gt;\" class=\"wp-image-2218\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5fc01b0b63af6a9484f3430eaa3a1c6c-768x432.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5fc01b0b63af6a9484f3430eaa3a1c6c-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5fc01b0b63af6a9484f3430eaa3a1c6c-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5fc01b0b63af6a9484f3430eaa3a1c6c.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Students Share Thoughts on Patriotism\n                <\/div>\n<div>\n<span>\n                                        \n        \n            \n            \n        0:47\n                            <\/span>\n<span> \u2022 Source:\n                \n                    CNN\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;Students share what patriotism means to them&lt;\/p&gt;\" class=\"wp-image-2219\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/609f6dc412210cf45e7a1f2ab009c1ec.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/609f6dc412210cf45e7a1f2ab009c1ec.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/609f6dc412210cf45e7a1f2ab009c1ec-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<svg><\/svg>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Students Share Thoughts on Patriotism<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>        \n        \n            \n            \n        0:47\n         \n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            But young people across the US are divided overwhether to feel pride in the country.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            According to a June 2025 Gallup poll, only 41% of adults who belong to Generation Z have been extremely or very proud to be Americans in recent years, compared with 58% of millennials. Many young people have been rattled by the trials of growing up during the Covid-19 pandemic, along with the high price of college education and housing.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Young people overwhelmingly take a dim view of Trump \u2014 according to a May CNN\/SSRS poll, 77% of respondents aged 18-34 disapproved of the way he is handling his job as president \u2014 and how democracy is functioning today. Only 16% of Gen Z respondents said the system is working well for young people, according to  from the Center for Information &amp; Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, or CIRCLE, at Tufts University.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThey don\u2019t dislike democracy as a system, they generally support the principles of a democratic government, but they\u2019re not seeing those principles being lived up to,\u201d said Ruby Belle Booth, a researcher at CIRCLE.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Booth said her research shows Gen Z still has a \u201cresilience\u201d around their political participation. \u201cThey are not going to give up just because they don\u2019t like the system; they\u2019re going to work to change it,\u201d she said.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        \u2018A New Patriotism\u2019\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            The 1776 Award is not the only Trump-backed contest aimed at youths. Later this year, the administration will hold a sporting event, the \u201cPatriot Games,\u201d which the president has billed as \u201can unprecedented four-day athletic event featuring the greatest high school athletes \u2014 one young man and one young woman from each state and territory.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Various nonpartisan civics initiatives to inspire youth to connect with America\u2019s founding and promote pride are taking place. America Gives, a program to encourage young people to volunteer, and America\u2019s Field Trip, a contest for schoolchildren, both run by America 250, a congressionally overseen nonprofit, have drawn 9 million and over 10,000 participants, respectively.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Macon&lt;strong&gt; &lt;\/strong&gt;Harrell\" class=\"wp-image-2220\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5d26208b39b7483f0085d2c4b1bec2bd.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5d26208b39b7483f0085d2c4b1bec2bd.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5d26208b39b7483f0085d2c4b1bec2bd-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>MaconHarrell<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>CNN<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Made By Us, a youth-led civics coalition backed by major cultural institutions like the Smithsonian, has launched \u201cCivic Season\u201d and is expected to reach over 20,000 people with 300 in-person events happening in 43 states.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Another Made by Us project, calledLetters to America, asks Gen Z to reflect on what the country means to them.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In the dozens of letters posted so far, high school students and young people in their 20s grapple with the promise of America and their complicated feelings about the country\u2019s past.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Like Jawali and Singh, 16-year-old Annalise Huang is the child of immigrants. She was drawn to the Letters to America campaign to express her complicated feelings about the country that became a flashpoint between her and her grandfather, who immigrated from China to Ecuador before settling in the United States.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In her letter, \u201cA New Patriotism,\u201d she described a very different kind of patriotism from what Trump has touted. The president has called for teaching children to \u201clove our country, honor our history and always respect our great American flag.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI am a patriot not for my unwavering support of America\u2019s actions,\u201d Huang wrote, \u201cbut rather my relentless devotion to make this country better.\u201d\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2201\">Rare footage of Mediterranean great white shark captured by ghost diver<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Ishant Jawali, a 16-year-old from Raleigh, North Carolina, was scrolling on Instagram when he stumbled upon a little-known way to win money for college: The Trump administration was putting on a national civics contest for America\u2019s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>These teens are vying to win Trump\u2019s civics contest. 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