An 8-year-old Chandler boy is Arizona’s first place winner in the National America 250 essay contest.
Samarthya “Sam” Kumar, a rising fourth grader at Stanfield Elementary School, wrote an essay titled “What America Means to Me.”
Sam and his parents will have an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for a guided tour of the White House and the U.S. Capitol, as well as the a chance to meet Arizona members of Congress…