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6 early entries we love from the NPR Student Podcast Challenge

Listen to these podcasts from middle and high school students, selected from entries submitted on or before March 3.

6 early entries we love from the NPR Student Podcast Challenge

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Announcing the fifth annual NPR Student Podcast Challenge
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Student Podcast Challenge

Announcing the fifth annual NPR Student Podcast Challenge

The national podcasting contest for middle and high school students is open for entries. It will close on April 28.

Announcing the fifth annual NPR Student Podcast Challenge

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Who Runs The World? Kids.

High schoolers Ethan Lincoln, Kaylee King and Jamin Crow's podcast about their experiences subsistence hunting is a finalist in the NPR Student Podcast Challenge. The students are pictured here at the KYUK radio transmitter site in Bethel, Alaska. Katie Basile/KYUK hide caption

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Who Runs The World? Kids.

OK, they're not all kids. But they're all students, they're all amazing, and frankly, we're concerned that they might be coming for our jobs. That's right — the Student Podcast Challenge is back, and this year, the stories are more powerful than ever.

Who Runs The World? Kids.

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The Kids Are All Right

Students behind the Flossy Podcast: Joshua Bovell, Jaheim Birch-Gentles, Brianna Johnson, Jamar Thompson, Ieszan McKinney, and Kamari Murdock in Canarsie, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Not pictured - Isaiah Dupuy.) Kholood Eid for NPR hide caption

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The Kids Are All Right

Adults often find it really hard to talk about race. But kids? Maybe not so much. NPR received more than 2,000 entries in this year's Student Podcast Challenge, and we heard from young people all over the country about how they're thinking about race and identity in these trying times.

The Kids Are All Right

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

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

The middle-school top prize for NPR's second annual Student Podcast Challenge goes to ... The Dragon Kids.

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

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