What does college sound like? Send us your best podcasts and our judges will choose a winner from among 10 finalists

To celebrate four years of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, we highlight teachers whose students have shined.

Two Chicago-area high school podcasters say they've dreamed about tattoos since they were little. And they argue that people who have them shouldn't be judged by what's on the outside.

Chicago teens made a podcast discussing the pros and cons of getting tattoos. We check back in on them after they were named finalists in NPR's 2021 Student Podcast Challenge.

D.C. has long struggled with one of the highest rates of gun violence in the country. Three local students talked to their community about losing their loved ones and living with the grief.

As the delta variant surges, some states are mandating masks in schools, some leave it up to districts, and in states that ban mask wearing in schools, a few districts are ignoring that rule.

In the remote Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of Alaska, many families practice subsistence hunting to get food on the table. Three students reconnected with that tradition during the pandemic.

When three students in the Yukon Delta region of Alaska were sent home from school last year something unexpected happened — they reconnected with their family tradition of subsistence hunting.

When these Kentucky students needed a subject for their podcast, they looked to the bright blue office around the corner, where their school's buildings and grounds team is based.

This year's high school winner in the NPR Student Podcast Challenge tackles the complexities of her Indian-American identity.

It's that time of year! Listen to our middle school and high school finalists now.

For years, Miriam Colvin's grandfather told the story of a boxing match between a young Indiana farm boy and a 14-year-old kid from Kentucky — named Cassius Clay. But was the story true?

When Anya Steinberg learned the man she thought was her father wasn't, it cast her life in a new light. In her winning student podcast entry, she traces her journey to figure out who she is.

Two very different stories won our hearts this year.

This year's finalists in the Student Podcast Challenge, College Edition, give us a glimpse at life on, and off, campus.

Here are some of the standout entries from NPR's first-ever College Podcast Challenge.

We know you have stories to tell and we at NPR are excited to listen. The 2021 Student Podcast Challenge opens on Jan. 1, and runs through March 15.

NPR's Student Podcast Challenge: College Edition opens today! The contest closes on Feb. 15, 2021.

It's our third year, so we decided to go big or go home. This year we're opening up the contest to college students!

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is concerned Latin America won't be the first in line for a coronavirus vaccine. So he has teamed up with Argentina to produce one.