Photo illustration of Haley Burton by Maya Kolton. Podcasts are digital audio files that users can stream or download and listen to. Popular platforms, like Spotify and Apple Podcasts, allow ...

Calling all student storytellers: NPR's Student Podcast Challenge is back for 2026. As always, we're looking to award prizes to the best middle school and high school podcasts in America — but we have ...

Today we're announcing the best student podcasts in America as part of NPR's annual Student Podcast Challenge. Our judges reviewed thousands of submissions. NPR's Janet Woojeong Lee brings us ...

NPR's College Podcast Challenge is back for its fifth year, with a $5,000 cash prize. If you have a passion project or a story you want to get off your chest, here's your chance to make it happen. And ...

NPR's Student Podcast Challenge has brought the voices of fifth- through 12th-graders to our air. But every year, we get emails from teachers asking, what about fourth-graders? We thought podcasting ...

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Entries for the Student Podcast Challenge are now due Sunday, May 25. You can read the announcement here. Ready to enter? You can fill out the submission form here. It all started ...

When three fifth-graders in Washington state sat down to make a podcast, they didn't have to look far to find a good topic. "Wildfires are a problem and they're dangerous," they say in their podcast ...

This year, for the first time, NPR's Student Podcast Challenge offered a special prize for the best student podcasts about mental health. The finalists had important things to say. This year, amid a ...