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America 250 Writing Contest
Essay Theme: A part of/Apart from
This year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America,
and the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the CNMI Covenant. Locally, the CNMI sits at a
crossroads where Pacific, Asian, and Western cultures move, mix, and sometimes merge
together, all while living under the umbrella of the American political system. For this contest,
the NMI Humanities Council asks high school students across all private and public schools to
write a personal narrative essay where they describe a specific experience that captures
what it means to be from the CNMI. They should also dedicate some portion of their essay to
describing the nuanced ways this experience makes them feel a part of and/or apart from the
United States. The students should also describe what they want to see happen for the
CNMI’s political relationship with the United States in the next 50 years.
The experience represented in the essay can be a large community event or an annual
island-wide tradition; it can also be something more intimate, such as a daily cultural or social
practice that makes the CNMI unique. The point of the essay is to capture the student’s idea of
the values the CNMI holds at its core. Somewhere in the essay the student should describe how
the experience they write about either makes the CNMI distinct from the overall American
experience or is an integral part of being in the United States.
Submission guidelines:
Use size 12 Times New Roman or similar font
Double space
Three pages minimum, five pages maximum
Submit essays in PDF format to info@nmhcouncil.org
File name should be in the following format: Essay tittle Student Name. An essay entitled “The Grind of Life” by Andrew Roberto will look like: The Grind of Life Andrew Roberto.
The essay title should also appear at the top of the first page of the essay. However,
students should not put their own name in the essay. The only place a student’s name
should appear in the submission is on the PDF title.
Deadline for submission is 5:00 p.m. on April 17, 2026
All submissions must include the publishing consent form available on the Council’s
website.
CONSENT FORM
RUBRIC
