Janet W. Lee
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The annual contest for students in grades four through 12 is back for its eighth year — this time with a special prize for a podcast that marks the 250th anniversary of the United States. -
Many states and school districts now ban or restrict the use of cell phones in schools. But what do the kids think about this? Student journalists in New Jersey brought this question to their classmates and teachers.
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Forty percent of babies in the U.S. are born to unmarried mothers. Increasingly, those moms are over 30, at a time when teen pregnancy has fallen off a cliff and births are declining for younger women. -
Avani Yaltho, this year's high school winner in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, brought three generations of her family together to talk about their shared history. -
For the first time, NPR's Student Podcast Challenge has a returning champion: a California fifth grader who explored a dark chapter in U.S. history during World War II. -
With help from his brother and some creative sound effects, an 11-year-old made us smile with his podcast. It's a finalist in this year's NPR Student Podcast Challenge. -
Here are some of our favorite high school podcasts from this year's NPR Student Podcast Challenge. In its seventh year, the contest received nearly 2,000 entries from students all around the country.
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NPR's Student Podcast Challenge received nearly 2,000 entries from all around the country. Here are some of this year's best middle school submissions.
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For the 2025 NPR Student Podcast Challenge, we've listened to nearly 2,000 entries from around the U.S., and narrowed them down to 11 middle school and 10 high school finalists. -
Our winning podcaster has graduated and tells us that opening up about his mental health condition brought thousands of responses and gave him a sense of purpose.
