Carnegie Council Announces Winners of its 2017 International Student/Teacher Essay Contest on the World's Greatest Ethical Challenge
(PRWEB) February 27, 2018 -- Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is delighted to announce the winners of its 2017 International Student/Teacher Essay Contest.
To read these essays, go to: https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/news/announcements/2018-02-23-winners-of-the-2017-international-student-teacher-essay-contest-on-the-worlds-greatest-ethical-challenge
ESSAY TOPIC: "In your opinion, what is the greatest ethical challenge facing the world today?"
The five winning essays address sexual exploitation, geoengineering, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and the universal right to education. (There were no winners in the graduate/teacher category this year.)
Many thanks to all of those who submitted essays. The Council received entries from 31 countries: Algeria, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, China, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe.
And the winners are:
HIGH SCHOOL
First Prize
Sexual Exploitation: The Dynamics of Gender and Power
Katherine Yoon, age 16, Yongsan International School of Seoul (YISS), South Korea
Second Prize
International Regulation of Genetic Engineering: Ethical Considerations in the 21st Century
Soo Hyun Kim, age 18, St. Paul's School, New Hampshire, USA
Third Prize
Education: A Last Chance
Andrew Sunghyun Yoon, age 15, Seoul International School (SIS), South Korea
UNDERGRADUATE
Joint First Prize
Errors of Omission, Commission, and Emission: Moral Culpability in Climate Change and Considerations of Solar Radiation Management
Katherine Culbertson, age 21, Harvard College, Massachusetts, USA
Joint First Prize
Artificial Intelligence's Ethical Challenges
Lily Zacharias, age 21, Bard College, New York, USA
ABOUT CARNEGIE COUNCIL
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Madeleine Lynn, Carnegie Council for Ethics, http://www.cceia.org, +1 212-838-4120 Ext: 219, [email protected]
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