Janet W. Lee

From hundreds of entries, our judges chose one student's intimate telling of the value of lifelong friendships and being single as the grand-prize winner of the NPR College Podcast Challenge.

A school district in Skowhegan, Maine, is reeling from newly announced cuts for federally funded mental health services, which are especially difficult to access in rural areas.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks college seniors Bobby McAlpine, Alyssa Johnson, and Liam Powell how they've changed their post-graduation plans in light of the upheaval caused by the Trump administration.

For NPR's College Podcast Challenge, one student discusses her complicated relationship with her Catholic faith, and shares advice for other young people asking the same big questions in life. Here's Given A Miracle by Ashley Blum.

For NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, Ameya Desai interviewed her grandfather, who was forced out of Uganda before moving to the U.S. The California fourth grader is one of our 2024 contest winners.

Students in an elementary school broadcasting club in California are among the youngest winners of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge.

Cian Lawlor's father was dispatched to the Palisades Fire just over a week ago and he's been working it ever since. The 11-year-old had some questions for his dad.

"It's wild. There's people out here that have just created a chain," said one woman who showed up to volunteer at a YMCA in Los Angeles' Koreatown neighborhood.

Eden Alonso-Rivera of Grandville, Mich. is the high school winner of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge. Her winning entry, "A Relationship Behind Bars," is about her father's incarceration.

The middle school winner of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge tells how her golden retriever, Lopez, changed her life.