Student Reporting Labs (SRL) is pleased to announce its first Student Journalism Challenge. Students aged 13 to 18 years old from across the United States are invited to contribute written, video and audio pieces on key issues in education throughout the fall semester of the new school year. Expert judges will select the best of each format and stories will be shared widely on local and national public media platforms.
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona recognized 297 schools as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2022, including six schools in Georgia. The recognition is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups. Secretary Cardona made the announcement during his Road to Success Back to School bus tour.
Student documentarians become changemakers in this year's competition: If you were a newly elected member of Congress, which issue would you address and why?
McInstosh High School's drone team, McIntosh Aeronautics, returned to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, this summer to compete at the national drone competition hosted by the Academy of Model Aeronautics at the EAA AirVenture Airshow. Out of the many teams that qualified through their region, the top eight were invited to compete at the national competition. The teams have to present their drone’s engineering design process, complete an impromptu programming, and end with a 30 minute challenge task.
Hope Givers, an Emmy® Award-winning youth mental wellness series on Georgia Public Broadcasting and PBS LearningMedia, received a $50,000 grant from Born This Way Foundation's Kindness in Community Fund. The fund provides a $1,000,000 commitment to support local organizations and their community-led mental health work in coordination with Lady Gaga’s The Chromatica Ball Summer Stadium Tour.
New animated PBS KIDS show introduces young bilingual Mexican-American, Rosie Fuentes, and her multicultural blended family, teaching children about their community and the world.