Janet W. Lee

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.

For its seventh year, our national podcasting competition will invite students from all around the country, in grades four through 12, to bring us their best audio stories.

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.

NPR's national podcasting contest for college students is now open for entries. Submit for a chance to win the $5,000 grand prize. Deadline is January 10.

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

For the first time this year, NPR's Student Podcast Challenge handed the mic over to fourth graders. Here's two of our judges' favorite entries.

In its sixth year, our contest handed over the mic to fourth graders for the very first time. We received nearly 2,000 entries from all around the country — and we've narrowed it down to 10 middle school and 10 high school finalists.

A new report finds college enrollment numbers, which plummeted during the pandemic, are slowly but steadily ticking back up.

This year's winning entry is an emotional account of living with schizoaffective disorder, from a student at Miami Dade College.