Williamsport Area High School Library

The New York Times is hosting its third annual Summer Reading Contest. You can see the full details at The Learning Network but the condensed version is, read news articles on their website, write in 350 words or less why an article interested you and you’ll be entered to win prizes and the chance for your writing to be featured on their blog. Anyone age 13-25 is eligible.

What Are the Rules?

— We’ll post the same Student Opinion question for every Friday, starting June 15. Each will ask, “What Interested You Most in The Times This Week?” That’s where you should post your picks (and reasons) any time until the next Friday. Then we’ll close that post and open a new one with the same question.

As soon as the contest starts, we’ll also make sure to keep an up-to-date link to at the top of this page leading you to that week’s question. If you bookmark this page, you can always find the link to the place to post your answer.

— You can choose from anything published in the print paper or on NYTimes.com in 2012. And yes, videos, graphics, slide shows and podcasts count.

— Feel free to participate each week, but we allow only one submission per person per week.

— The contest is open to students ages 13 to 25.

— Each response should be 350 words or fewer. (To check, you can paste yours into an online word-count tool like this one before you submit it.)

— Give us your first name only, in accordance with our privacy rules. No last names, but please also post your age and hometown.

— Make sure to provide us with a full headline (For example, “Lessons in the Art of Pillow Fort Construction”) or the URL(s), or Web address(es), of the Times material you choose so others can find them easily. To find a URL, just copy and paste what comes up at the top of the page in your browser. This post’s URL, for example, is http://www.wahslibrary.info/wp-admin/post.php?post=272.