The National Italian American Foundation is now accepting submissions for the annual NIAF NCCA Christopher Columbus Essay Contest, a national essay contest on a topic related to Christopher Columbus for high school students of all ethnic backgrounds throughout the United States.<\/p>\n
Three outstanding essays are chosen from amongst the submissions to win a cash prize ranging from $300-$1,200. The first-place winner receives a $1,200 prize and an all-expense-paid trip to Washington to read the essay at the Columbus Day event in Washington. CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> for more information regarding the specific criteria of the essay and how to submit your entry.<\/p>\n Deadline to submit an essay is March 15, 2024.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Italian American Foundation is now accepting submissions for the annual NIAF NCCA Christopher Columbus Essay Contest, a national essay contest on a topic related to Christopher Columbus for high school students of all ethnic backgrounds throughout the United States. Three outstanding essays are chosen from amongst the submissions to win a cash prize […]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-6084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6120,"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6084\/revisions\/6120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}