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The Rye Riptides pictured on board the Corwith Cramer before launching in October 2020. Nearly 18 months later, the mini boat was retrieved from an uninhabited Norwegian island with its messages and gifts intact. Sheila Adams hide caption

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Ishana Kumar, 12, a 7th grader from Chappaqua, N.Y., on Wednesday won a top science award for a project on perception of imaginary colors. Society Communications Team hide caption

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Ishana Kumar, 12, Wins Top Award For Research Into 'Imaginary Colors'

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PS 126/Manhattan Academy of Technology students Angelo Chen, Nicole Zheng, Kristi Jiang, Becky Liu, Leo Yu, Si Chen Xu and Zoe Jiang on a school field trip. Courtesy of Karin Patterson hide caption

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Coronavirus, Racism And Kindness: How NYC Middle-Schoolers Built A Winning Podcast

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Maya Erskine (left) is co-creator and co-star of Hulu's PEN15 with Anna Konkle. Hulu hide caption

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And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School, by Judith Warner Crown hide caption

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Judith Warner's New Book On Middle School Suggests It Doesn't Have To Be All Bad

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A growing number of pediatric sports medicine groups warn that when a child focuses on a single sport before age 15 or 16, they increase their risk of injury and burnout — and don't boost their overall success in that sport. Hero Images/Getty Images hide caption

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Student Athletes Who Specialize Early Are Injured More Often, Study Finds

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Teaching Middle-Schoolers Climate Change Without Terrifying Them

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Want To Address Teachers' Biases? First, Talk About Race

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