Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
The family says correct answers were marked wrong and the Education Department would not disclose scores, fueling concerns about the televised contest.
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14-year-old Greenville girl becomes SC’s first civics bee champion
Riley Metcalfe, center, won the statewide civics championship at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C., on Thursday, July 23, 2026. (Photo by Skylar Laird/SC Daily Gazette)COLUMBIA — The room went silent as seven middle school girls considered the question: What distinguishes intellectual virtues from moral virtues in Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics”? If that sounds much more difficult than a typical middle school civics course, tha…
Meet Connecticut's Aangad Singh who could have won Presidential 1776 Award competition. His parents think they know the reason why Singh lost
US News: The Donald Trump administration set a Presidential 1776 Award competition on the occasion of America's 250th birthday which was meant to be a civic co.
'Rigged' Trump anniversary contest refuses to keep Sikh boy's score: family
A Sikh teen suspects President Donald Trump's civics competition was rigged after he gave a lot of right answers — and lost.Aangad Singh, 15, told NOTUS Wednesday he and his mom cannot understand the loss he suffered in the America's 250th anniversary Presidential 1776 Award competition for high sch...
Family fears Trump admin rigged kids trivia game show
As part of President Donald Trump's 250th celebrations, the Department of Education held a game show about American citizenship. Aangad Singh's family is concerned it may have been rigged. NOTUS reported that there appeared to be some creative counting of answers during a show that depended on points, but had no scoreboard. “It doesn’t make sense,” said Singh's mother, Ramandeep.“They just made this whole thing for show,” his uncle said. “They k…
Did Trump Officials Rig High School Contest Against Sikh Finalist?
The Presidential 1776 Award competition was set up by the Trump administration to honor the U.S.’s 250th birthday with a civics contest for high school students. But the family of Aangad Singh, 15, believes he may have been kept out of the competition’s final because of his Sikh background and visible turban, NOTUS reports. Singh, a rising high school junior who lives in Connecticut, entered the competition in February just like other high schoo…
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