Macon Harrell and Summer Brondstetter will follow two very different paths after high school, but a common passion led them both to the nation’s capital: civics.
Harrell, a senior at Mississippi’s Oxford High School, has visited all 50 states, stopping at national historic sites to supplement what he’d already learned in school, read about on his own, or observed in documentaries.
Brondstetter, a junior from suburban Seattle, took up multiple foreign languages, guitar lessons, Russian literature, and just about every type of art she could try—anything to foster curiosity and new ways of learning.
Both public school students advanced through two rounds of the Presidential 1776 Awards national civics competition to reach the finals planned for June 9 at the Trump Kennedy Center in Washington….
Reaching the National Stage for America’s 250th Birthday
