NPR Hosts 'Student Podcast Challenge'

Starts In January

NPR will offer a new podcast competition for students in grades 5 through 12.  The NPR  Student Podcast Challenge will begin on JANUARY 1st and will encourage teachers and students to produce short (between three and twelve minutes) podcasts, with the network offering training materials and resources, to submit to the competition.  Two winners will be chosen, one from grades five through eight and the other from grades nine through eleven, and will be featured in segments on MORNING EDITION and ALL THINGS CONSIDERED in the SPRING.

NPR ED and CODE SWITCH Exec. Producer STEVE DRUMMOND said, "Public media belongs to everyone. We need to hear the concerns, ideas, and perspectives of young people, and what better way than to give space for them tell their own stories, in their own voices.

"Our education reporting tells us project based learning works. Now we want to put that into practice and engage students around audio."

Entries will be due by MARCH 31st, and winners will be notified in APRIL.

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