What does America mean to you?

Two Sacramento-area students won a national competition for their answers to that question as part of the build-up to next year’s celebrations of the nation’s 250th anniversary.

Mélanie Golé, who just finished fourth grade in Rancho Cordova, and Evelyn Bravo, who completed tenth grade in Sacramento, were among the 75 first-place winners of the “America’s Field Trip” contest, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, known as America250, announced on Wednesday .

Each of the contest participants — who numbered in the thousands, according to the commission — submitted art or writing in the spring. Now, each winner will travel to one place on a menu of national landmarks, ranging from Mount Rushmore to the Angel Island Immigration Station in Marin County.

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