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is pleased to announce that 60 students have been selected as winners of the 2017 Many Languages, One World? international essay contest. 2017 is the fourth year ELS Educational Services and the United Nations Academic Impact (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵAI) have sponsored Many Languages, One World. This year ELS and the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵAI also welcome Northeastern University as the host of the Many Languages, One World Global Youth Forum and the sponsor and organizer of the Northeastern University Global Youth Symposium.

The event includes an all-expense-paid trip to Boston and New York City and the opportunity to speak in the General Assembly Hall at the United Nations. Students will present action plans related to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The Many Languages, One World contest challenged college and university students around the globe to write an essay in one of the six official languages of the United Nations: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. More than 6,000 individuals from 170 countries and over 1,950 universities participated in the initial phase of the contest. Participants attend many prestigious universities including Jiangsu University, The University of Cambridge, Columbia University, The University of Edinburgh, Universit¨¦ Paris 1 Panth¨¦on-Sorbonne, McGill University, Clemson University, Indiana University¨CPurdue University Fort Wayne, Universiti Putra Malaysia, The University of British Columbia, New York University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Tecnol¨®gico de Monterrey, SRM University, and Bowling Green State University.

ELS congratulates the 60 winners of the Many Languages, One World 2017 student essay contest.

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The winners are as follows: