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On June 30, 2026, 1.63 million Americans tuned in to CBS to watch something that would have been unthinkable a decade ago: a prime-time civics competition. A 17-year-old homeschooler from Lander, Wyoming, named Miriam Washut outlasted more than 8,000 students from every state and U.S. territory to win the first-ever Presidential 1776 Award — a $150,000 scholarship and a Presidential Challenge Coin from the Oval Office. Summer Brondstetter of Washington took second and $75,000