This 12 months, we’ve obtained an enormous new change: Because the starting, the competition has been open for college students in grades 5 by way of 12. However every year, we’ve heard from elementary lecturers asking, what about my youthful children?
This 12 months, in response to that well-liked demand, from elementary lecturers, we’re introducing our first-ever fourth grade contest! So in case you educate or work with fourth graders – please take into account podcasting together with your college students and coming into our contest!
The sixth annual Scholar Podcast Problem is now open for entries beginning Feb. 2, 2024 and can shut on Could 3, 2024. Our judges will select winners in three classes: grade 4, grades 5 by way of eight, and grades 9 by way of 12.
As up to now, entries have to be submitted by a trainer, educator, or mentor who’s 18 years or older. And don’t neglect all the ideas, recommendation and lesson plans we’ve compiled over time – extra on that under. Particularly the principles across the most size of eight minutes, and about using music. (You can find the contest rules here.) After years of listening to scholar podcasts, we’ve realized that shorter is healthier.
And, for our school podcasters, we’ll be saying finalists and the winner of the 2023 Faculty Podcast Problem within the subsequent month. So please preserve a watch out! The faculty version will return this fall with a $5,000 grand prize and $500 prizes for finalists.
The competition guidelines stay just about the identical: College students can create a podcast about any subject they want to discover. To offer you an concept, we’ve listened to tales on every little thing from social media, tattoos to even fictional tales. Some themes we’ve seen time and again embody questions on race and identity and the way younger individuals do, or don’t, fit in. Your podcast can be in many alternative codecs: an interview, narrative story and even investigative reporting. You are able to do it by your self or together with your whole class.
That can assist you get began, we’ve obtained a slew of podcasting sources on how to tell a good story, how to warm up your voice and how to use music in your podcast, amongst different matters. Even, and we’re severe about this: how making a pillow fort could make you sound higher!
You will discover extra ideas and methods on The Students’ Podcast, our podcast on tips on how to make a superb podcast. We additionally encourage you to get a really feel for what we’re searching for by listening to final 12 months’s high school winner and middle school winners. And former years’ winners’ here.
For extra ideas, recommendation and the most recent updates on this 12 months’s contest, make certain to sign up for our newsletter. College students, we will’t wait to listen to your tales. Good luck!
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