What if the most meaningful conversation about America this year starts with a sketchbook and a pack of markers? 🇺🇸🎨
A doodle in the margin.
A late-night idea.
A design made at the kitchen table.
The Fly Your Flag Contest invites students in grades 5–12 to create an ORIGINAL flag design inspired by their vision, values, community, and hopes for the future.
Teachers and Parents: Have your students submitted yet?
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Learn more at: /story/news/usa250/2026/04/06/sunn-usat-contests/89286303007/
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Huge thanks to Vanderbilt University for generously sponsoring the cash prizes for our national Fly Your Flag competition. 🇺🇸
Proud to partner with an institution that believes in student voice, creativity, and the next generation of artists, thinkers, and leaders!
Have your students submitted yet?
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Check out these incredible submissions coming in from across the country!
Have your students submitted yet? We can’t wait to see more flags from every corner of America! 🇺🇸
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Learn more at: /story/news/usa250/2026/04/06/sunn-usat-contests/89286303007/
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What do you want your flag to represent? Make your submission here! 👉 /surveys/faotyq?position=1
🎨 Open to grades 5–12
🏆 Prizes up to $1,000
🗓 Submissions due June 1
📘 Learn more about the contest:
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Celebrating the incredible educators helping bring the Fly Your Flag competition to life across the country! 🇺🇸 From helping students brainstorm, to encouraging them to take creative risks, to staying late to help finish submissions, teachers are the catalyst behind it all — and it shows.
Have your students submitted yet? We can’t wait to see more flags from every corner of America! 🇺🇸
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Learn more at: /story/news/usa250/2026/04/06/sunn-usat-contests/89286303007/
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DID YOU MAKE YOUR SUBMISSION YET?
Students & Teachers: Don’t miss your chance to be featured in national media and seen by celebrity judges like Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kadir Nelson, Jasmine Jones, Sharon McMahon + more.
🎨 Open to grades 5–12
🏆 Prizes up to $1,000
🗓 Submissions due June 1
👉 Submit your design:
/surveys/faotyq?position=1
📘 Learn more about the contest:
/story/news/usa250/2026/04/06/sunn-usat-contests/89286303007/
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What does your flag symbolize? 🇺🇸✨
The Fly Your Flag Contest invites students in grades 5–12 to create an original American flag inspired by their own vision for America.
🎨 Grades 5–12
🏆 Up to $1,000
🗓 Submissions extended to June 1
👉 Submit your design:
/surveys/faotyq?position=1
📘 Learn more:
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Have you submitted your Fly Your Flag design yet? 🇺🇸🎨 Possip made it possible!
Not only does Possip help schools across the country collect meaningful feedback from students and families — they’ve also made it possible for students nationwide to submit their original flag designs for our SUNN + USA TODAY contest.
Make your submission today!
🎨 Grades 5–12
🏆 Up to $1,000
📣 Featured nationally + seen by celebrity judges
👉 Submit your design:
/surveys/faotyq?position=1
📘 Learn more:
/story/news/usa250/2026/04/06/sunn-usat-contests/89286303007/
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🚨 NEW DUE DATE! 🚨
More time. More voices. More flags. 🇺🇸🎨
Due to incredible submissions from across the country, the Fly Your Flag Contest deadline has been extended to June 1!
Will your students be part of it?
🎨 Grades 5–12
🏆 Up to $1,000
📣 Featured nationally + seen by celebrity judges
👉 Submit your design:
/surveys/faotyq?position=1
📘 Learn more:
/story/news/usa250/2026/04/06/sunn-usat-contests/89286303007/
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We want you to design YOUR American flag — and be judged by all-star civic leaders, including actress and producer Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Olympian Jasmine Jones, renowned artist Kadir Nelson, iCivics CEO Louise Dubé and teacher-influencer Sharon McMahon.
Here's what to know about USA TODAY and @sunnposts are partnering for the "Fly Your Flag" contest, open now for middle and high schoolers in grades 5 through 12.
For more details, check out the link in bio.
These original flag designs are coming in from classrooms across the country—and they are bold, personal, and impossible to ignore!
The question is… will your students be part of it?
Their work could be featured across national media—and seen by celebrity judges like Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kadir Nelson, Jasmine Jones, Louise Dube, Sharon McMahon + more.
Let’s get every corner of the country represented.
🎨 Grades 5–12
🏆 Up to $1,000
👉 Submit your design:
/surveys/faotyq?position=1
📘 Learn more:
/story/news/usa250/2026/04/06/sunn-usat-contests/89286303007/
What would your re-imagined American flag look like—if you could design it from scratch? Layer it. Remix it. Make it mean something. 🇺🇸✨
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The Fly Your Flag Contest invites students in grades 5–12 to create an original American flag—one that reflects their ideas, their identity, and their vision for the future.
🎨 Grades 5–12
🏆 Up to $1,000
🗓 Submissions due May 19
👉 Submit your design:
/surveys/faotyq?position=1
📘 Learn more:
/story/news/usa250/2026/04/06/sunn-usat-contests/89286303007/
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