In just one week, 22 high school and college students will be named the winners of the 1ForAll campaign’s #FreetoTweet competition – and receive $5,000 to continue their education. More than 17,000 tweets with the #FreetoTweet hashtag flooded Twitter on Dec. 15, sent by people sharing how they enjoy their right to free expression. Students ages 14 to 22 who creatively tweeted their appreciation for the First Amendment using the hashtag were automatically entered into a nationwide scholarship competition. Knight Foundation funded the 22 scholarships – one for every decade since the Bill of Rights’ ratification. The campaign, which took place on the Bill of Rights’ 220th birthday, complemented a recent Knight study that found that as social media use grew amongst high school students, so did appreciation for the First Amendment.  The results suggests that Twitter, Facebook and other social media can play an important, supplemental role in the classroom. On that day too, 1ForAll released a teacher’s guide for using social media to teach about the First Amendment. To see the winning tweets, stay tuned next Friday March 16 to 1ForAll.us, and follow @knightfdn, @1forallus and the hashtag #FreeToTweet.