I'm Gene Demby and you are listening to Code Switch from NPR.

I believe the children of the future.

Alright, that's enough of my singing usually.

That's the kind of thing that Shereen handles on the podcast, but it's just me today.

So you know, that's your bad luck.

Anyway, in each of the last two years, we have set aside an episode of our podcast to

bring you on some of the best podcasts from young folks around the country.

This podcast comes to us from NPR's Student Podcast Challenge.

For those of you who don't know, that challenge is where we ask young people to make a podcast

and then send it in and our judges and Shereen is one of those judges, by the way.

Pick the winners.

So our play cousins on the NPR Ed team have now heard from more than 50,000 students

from across the country, 50,000.

And from students in all 50 states, as you might guess and relevant to our interest on

quotes, which a whole lot of those young people are making podcasts about who they are,

who they want to be, and how they fit into the world.

So today, we do it again.

But this time we're also going to hear from college students, as well as the younger folks

who usually participate.

Here's a little taste.

Hi, I'm Lucille and I have an important question for you.

What do you think of when you hear the word slug?

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