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What We Heard From NPR's First Student Podcast Challenge

Our first-ever Student Podcast Challenge saw nearly 25,000 students around the country participate, from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. But two podcast submissions stood out.
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This year, NPR's Education Team challenged teachers and students around the country to turn their classrooms into production studios, their assignments into scripts, and their ideas into sound.

The first-ever exceeded all of our expectations: All told about participated, from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. We received

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