The moment you've been waiting for: America's best student podcasts
The moment you've been waiting for: America's best student podcasts September 30, 20265:00 AM ET By Kadin Mills , Janet W. Lee NPR What do Americans really know about their country? When a father dies, what lessons does he leave for his son?
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- ▪Lee NPR What do Americans really know about their country?
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| Original publisher | NPR Topics: News |
| Canonical URL | https://www.npr.org/2026/09/30/nx-s1-5930430/student-podcast-challenge-2026-finalists |
| Publication time | Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:00:00 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-30T17:21:12.586Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-30T17:21:12.586Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Summary source text | contentText |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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The moment you've been waiting for: America's best student podcasts September 30, 20265:00 AM ET By Kadin Mills , Janet W. Lee NPR What do Americans really know about their country? What do we mean when we think of "home"? When a father dies, what lessons does he leave for his son? And, was Andy Warhol a woman named Patricia? Student Podcast Challenge Announcing the NPR Student Podcast Challenge for 2026 — and a very special prize! These topics – from fifth graders in Hewlett, N.Y., a high school student in Ann Arbor, Mich., an 11th grader in Cicero, Ill., and a middle schooler in Brooklyn – make up just a few of the many questions that students around the country turned into audio stories and sent us this year.
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