{"id":364217,"date":"2022-03-16T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=364217"},"modified":"2022-03-16T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T20:00:20","slug":"ninth-circuit-extends-civics-contest-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ninth-circuit-extends-civics-contest-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninth Circuit extends civics contest deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO<\/strong>\u2014It\u2019s not too late for students to get their essay and\/or video entries submitted. Deadline has been extended to submit entries for the 2022 Ninth Circuit Civics Contest, an essay and video competition for high school students sponsored by the federal courts of the western United States. Entries must be received by 11:59pm Pacific Time on March 28, 2022. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe First Amendment and the Schoolhouse Gate: Students\u2019 Free Speech Rights\u201d is the theme of this year\u2019s contest. The contest asks students to address \u201cWhat are students\u2019 free speech rights\u2014and responsibilities\u2014on and off campus?\u201d Participants are asked to consider what rights the First Amendment provides to students engaging in free speech, both inside and outside of school. Participants also should consider the responsibilities, if any, that students, schools, or the government have with respect to speech by students, including whether it may cause harm to others. <\/p>\n<p>Students in grades 9-12 in Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington state, the U.S. territory of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands may participate in the contest. <\/p>\n<p>First-place winners of the essay and video portion of the contest at the circuit level will be invited to attend the 2022 Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in Big Sky, Montana. A total of $11,400 in cash prizes will be awarded in the circuit-wide contest. The top three finishers in both the essay and video competitions will receive a total of $3,000 for first place, $1,700 for second place and $1,000 for third place. Many students also have a chance to win cash prizes in local competitions sponsored by the individual judicial districts that will select their finalists for the circuit-wide contest. <\/p>\n<p>The contest is sponsored by the Ninth Circuit\u2019s Public Information and Community Outreach Committee, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. district and bankruptcy courts in the 15 judicial districts that comprise the Ninth Circuit. For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca9.uscourts.gov\/civicscontest\">https:\/\/www.ca9.uscourts.gov\/civicscontest<\/a>. Finalists will be announced in May and the winners in June. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO\u2014It\u2019s not too late for students to get their essay and\/or video entries submitted&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":364220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1925],"class_list":["post-364217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ninth-circuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}