Calling all student storytellers: NPR's Student Podcast Challenge is back for 2026. As always, we're looking to award prizes to the best middle school and high school podcasts in America — but we have ...

It's before school on a crisp Friday morning in Carlsbad, Calif. Andrew Luria is rallying the kids in his newsroom. "How many of you guys didn't do your homework?" Luria asks the 10- and 11-year-old ...

Hollister High School students are using a podcast to help their peers cope with anxiety over immigration raids. "'Are they going to take me away? Am I going to go to school one day and come back and ...

From Hawaii to Maryland and from Illinois to Texas, from investigative reporting to in-depth interviews, thousands of young people have once again turned their thoughts and ideas into audio, and NPR's ...