Three Newton High School seniors were honored Wednesday evening in the NHS Media Center for their involvement in the second annual Harvey County Constitution essay contest.Trek Wedel (1st), Riley Ney (2nd) and Hannah Litton (3rd) were honored out of the pool of 14 students who participated in the contest earlier this semester; nine from NHS and five from Halstead High School.The group had 780 words or less to answer the following prompt: Describe the limits that the Constitution places on popular participation in elections and why we should or should not keep them.Local precinct committee person Mike Fellows worked with NHS History/Government teacher Carson Matile, and Halstead High School History/Government teacher Derek Schutte to make the contest available to high school seniors.Judges, consisting of Harvey county dignitaries, reviewed the essays without knowing who the author was.