A one-act play written and performed by teenagers, via Zoom. These are just a few of the winners from our third annual Student Podcast Contest, in which we invited teenagers to create an original audio program, five minutes or less, about anything they wanted. Well, this year’s podcast submissions showed us how teenagers think about social media, climate change, family, migration, music and race. And throughout all of the podcast submissions, there was one recurring theme: the ways in which teenagers have been affected by, and are learning from, the coronavirus pandemic. Some students leaned into that reality and interviewed their family members, while others spoke directly to what stay-at-home orders had meant for them.

Source: New York Times June 25, 2020 22:18 UTC