The inner monologue of an anxious teenager. A fictional radio story about a robot takeover. An investigative report about teenage climate activists. A personal narrative about what it’s like to have a baby at 15.
These are just a few of the winning pieces from our Second Annual Student Podcast Contest, in which we invited teenagers to create an original audio program about anything they wanted in five minutes or less.
We received nearly 900 submissions — including interviews, conversations, reviews, investigations, personal stories and fictional tales — from students all over the world.
But there were 39 entries — 12 winners, 15 runners-up and 12 honorable mentions — that stood above the rest. These podcasts pulled us in right from the start and kept our attention to the end. They brought their topics to life with music, environmental noise, media clips and the human voice. They were entertaining, informative and emotionally gripping.
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