Max Benning ’18 Wins Writing Award
Congratulations to Max Benning ’18 who recently won a runner-up prize for his entry in the News-Decoder Reporting and Writing Contest. Max submitted an excerpt from his MIT Inspire research competition paper titled “A Hot Topic: Examining the Incendiary Language of Media Coverage of California Wildfires” to News-Decoder, a nonprofit news service and global forum for millennials to learn about international affairs and engage in a borderless conversation.
In his article, “Wildfires: Sensationalist Media Can Miss the Mark,” Max examined media coverage of two wildfires in California in 2015. He shares, “The negative media portrayal [of wildfire] is detrimental in terms of public understanding of wildfire, in that it fails to acknowledge essential ecological effects that are beneficial for forest health.”
Entries were submitted by students in 14 academic institutions around the nation. The judges “were especially impressed with the originality and organization of [his] article, and with [his] effort to capture opposing viewpoints.” Click here to read more about the contest.
Additionally, Max was one of 12 students in San Diego County to be awarded the Sunflower Scholarship through Chelsea’s Light Foundation. The Sunflower Scholarship Fund’s purpose is “to find resilient and bright students who tower over others in uniqueness and splendor, who stand out from a crowd, just as a sunflower does.” Through the Sunflower Scholarship, Chelsea’s parents Kelly and Brent King have awarded over $650,000 to 87 deserving students. Click here to read more about the Sunflower Scholarship.
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