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A 12-year-old girl in blue jeans probably isn’t the first thing you picture when you hear the word paleontologist. But in 1979, young India Wood di...
- Added: Mar 31, 2016
- Length: 58:59
High School Senior, Eavan Burke, had a life changing experience on the tea plantations of Kenya, Africa. She decided to aid to the workers by creat...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 04:52
- Purchases: 1
Within Taylor's 16 years, she has lived in eight places all over the country. Taylor explains the impact moving has had on her life and how each pl...
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 03:03
At the mere age of 16, Jihana Mendu went on the adventure of a lifetime to Peru. While there to pursue her ambition of working in the medical field...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 1
Olivia was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2010. Three years later, her best friend, Allison, was diagnosed with the same disease. They talk to e...
Bought by KSKA
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
Steffi’s passion, dedication, and strength contributed to achieving her goal of playing softball at a collegiate level.
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 04:24
It may seem obvious that the academic demands on an 11th grader are more intense than a 2nd grader. However, what may be surprising is the number o...
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 03:43
This high school student has travelled to all 7 continents within the last 4 years. At only 16 years old, she feels like her view on life has been...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 03:38
Having fallen in love with the piano as a toddler, now as a teenager, Leila Mohaddes is composing her own music and transposing her songs for strin...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 05:06
Even after 13 years, Olivia remembers the influence her preschool teacher, Miss Joanne, had on her in Room 1. Wanting to know more about Miss Joann...
- Added: Dec 11, 2014
- Length: 03:50
In Aroostook County, life still revolves around the potato harvest even though few family potato farms are left.
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 06:16
Dejon Lewis was 11 years old when child protective services arrived to take him and his twin sister away from their mother, whom he says is a drug ...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 08:47
Is playing basketball worth the sacrifices this high school student he has to make?
- Added: Apr 08, 2014
- Length: 04:45
What conclusions about parenthood will teenagers come to after participating in their AP Psychology class’ flour baby project? Listen as they share...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Apr 01, 2014
- Length: 05:24
- Purchases: 2
Up until she was a teenager, she lived in comfort. What she didn’t see coming was the moment when she lost everything. Find out why her world turne...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 16, 2014
- Length: 07:31
- Purchases: 3
Training to become a professional hockey player doesn't come without a price for this teenager. Will countless hours of practice and perseverance p...
- Added: Nov 20, 2013
- Length: 05:09
Why would students at ivy league universities choose to be part of the military Reserve Officer Training Program (ROTC)? Listen to find out how and...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2013
- Length: 09:32
- Purchases: 1
This one-hour documentary takes an intimate look at the high school dropout crisis through the lives of three young people from California's Centra...
- Added: Oct 25, 2013
- Length: 54:04
- Purchases: 7
Follow Rachel as she progressively interviews kids ages 5-18 and asks them a simple, yet thought-provoking question. This is the first of four epis...
- Added: Oct 02, 2013
- Length: 04:16
Meet Annika, a 16 year old actress who appeared in the movie JOBS as Steve Jobs' (Ashton Kutcher's) daughter. Annika shares many behind-the-scenes ...
- Added: Sep 19, 2013
- Length: 07:34
Follow Sierra on her progressive college journey as she realizes that finding the right college is as difficult as Goldilocks finding the right bo...
- Added: Aug 26, 2013
- Length: 03:00
Kimmy couldn't believe that she was getting college info packs in the mail as a 9th grader. Having just transitioned to high school from middle sch...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 26, 2013
- Length: 08:16
- Purchases: 1
Teenagers of the modern United States focus primarily on their own society's music and traditions. Brandon decided to deviate from this social norm...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 1
From the outside, it seemed like Michael had it all - parents who loved him, a supportive brother, an affluent home, and good grades. But, wanting...
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 15:08
At overcrowded and underfunded public schools across the country high suspension rates are exacerbating existing achievement gaps. Often, chaos in ...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Nov 23, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
