For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Angelia Ysobel G. Miranda, of Kent, is the runner-up in the American Foreign Service Association’s 2014 National High School Essay Contest.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A home-schooled junior, Miranda won a full scholarship for tuition to the National Student Leadership Conference on International Diplomacy program this summer in Washington, D.C., and New York City.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n As runner-up in the contest, Miranda spent a day with AFSA staff touring the Capitol and met Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.). Both legislators took the time to take a photo with Miranda and to discuss her plans for the future. Miranda says she is inspired to continue pursuing her goals and her passion for international affairs and politics.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n AFSA’s Annual High School Essay Contest was created in 1999 for the purpose of stimulating interest in the Foreign Service and U.S. foreign relations among students nationwide in grades 9 through 12. Ultimately, it is hoped that many of the contest participants will apply for the Foreign Service or other U.S.-sponsored international careers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n This year’s topic focused on historic diplomatic events in honor of the 90th anniversary of the Foreign Service. The topic choices were: the post-World War II period\/Marshall Plan; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the 1978 Camp David Accords; the end of the Cold War; the Northern Ireland Peace Process\/Good Friday Agreement and diplomacy through development (e.g., USAID, the President’s Malaria Initiative or the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Miranda’s essay is titled “The 1978 Camp David Accords: From Divisive Wounds to Inclusive Words.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n For more information on the contest, visit www.afsa.org\/essay<\/a>. For additional information about the generous supporters of the contest, visit www.semesteratsea.org<\/a> and www.nslcleaders.org<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Angelia Ysobel G. Miranda, of Kent, is the runner-up in the American Foreign Service Association’s 2014 National High School Essay Contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":10887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10886"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}