The topic…is very pertinent to the present and future…I can't wait to see how it affected those in the past. We have Edison with electricity, Einstein and Oppenheimer with atomic, and so many more…” – Matt Tomkins, Georgia

This new topic sounds extremely interesting and is so pertinent to the past, present, and future. Good luck to all the contestants! This is such an amazing opportunity! I wish I could do it again!” – Sara Medjhi, Texas

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– Nyx Robey, California

Scholarship winner Philip Hayes of Lindale, TX was invited to speak at the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Scholarship winner Malik Neal of Philadelphia, PA was invited to be a keynote speaker at the prestigious 2008 Lincoln Symposium at Gettysburg college, which was featured on CSPAN.

Scholarship winner Sari Radecke of Sammamish, WA is producing and plans to sell a music video of a song she wrote for Now Debate This: “You’ve Got Me Thinking.”

Scholarship winner Alexis Wallace of Phoenix, AZ wrote an essay selected for publication in the Abraham Lincoln Association’s Lincoln in Illinois, a 2009 book commemorating the bicentennial of President Lincoln’s birth.