The Sunday Story: The kids have something to say

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🗓️ 16 July 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

What can middle and high school students teach us? What do they care about? And how do they observe their communities and themselves?

NPR's Student Podcast Challenge results are in. It's time to hear what the kids have to say.

Today on The Sunday Story, Ayesha Rascoe sits down with producers Janet Woojeong Lee and Lauren Migaki, who run the contest, to discuss the 2023 edition. We hear from Dylan McDonald of Massachusetts who's in the midst of a gender transition and from Jiah Hwang on the heartbreaking moment that reinvigorated her relationship with her sister. Amelia Hankinson brings us an ode to growing taller, and undocumented students talk about the way they see their lives now.

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0:00.0	We talk a lot about what's going on with young people these days, but kids rarely have
0:08.6	a chance to step in front of the microphone themselves to tell their own stories in whatever
0:13.7	way they want.
0:15.0	What zombie scares you the most?
0:17.3	How on earth could a hot dog qualify as a sandwich?
0:19.8	I mean look at the thing.
0:21.7	Hi, little one on farms.
0:25.0	So those sounds are my background music.
0:28.6	Every year, MPR's education desk gives kids the chance to be heard through the student
0:34.2	podcast challenge.
0:36.2	Middle schoolers and high schoolers from around the country take part and their stories
0:41.0	can teach us a lot about what it's like to be a kid today.
0:44.8	I had a long journey that changed my life forever.
0:47.6	It started when the todo one came back to power in August, 2021 and we had to leave over
0:53.4	school in the middle of the final exam.
0:57.2	I'm Ayasarasko and this is the Sunday story.
1:00.3	Today I'm joined by MPR's Janet Ujung Lee.
1:03.5	She heads up the contest with help from producer Lauren McGocchi.
1:07.8	They comb through all the entries and are here to share the highlights.
1:14.0	Welcome to you both.
1:15.0	Hello.
1:16.0	Hello, hello.
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