By AVA GOETZ, Age 9 THIS YEAR! This year is special. Why? The answer may surprise you. This summer, more than a trillion cicadas will emerge in some areas of the country. The two main categories of cicadas are annual cicadas (also known as dog-day cicadas) and periodical cicadas, found in the central and eastern …
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By NIKHIL SABNIS, Age 10 When you think of New York City, you generally do not think of clean air and places with lush greenery and rich biodiversity. One may think of polluted air, cramped apartments, and no growing space for trees or plants. This could change quite soon thanks to the development of the …
By GRACE STEVENS, Age 13 “Why is no one talking about this anymore?” That’s a common question asked by news consumers everywhere! Sometimes when reading or watching media, it can seem like every channel or every news publication is talking about one thing for a while, and then they all switch to another—kind of like …
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By AVA GOETZ, Age 9 The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst by Jaclyn Moriarty is a fantasy book that follows an adventurous, curious and “normal” girl named Esther Mettlestone-Staranise. Esther, an often-ignored middle child enrolled in boarding school, discovers a number of strange and unsettling changes upon her return to school. Her best friends are missing, …
By GIBRAN FREILLA-WILLIAMS, Age 13, and IndyKids Staff In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. launched his final campaign, which was referred to as the Poor People’s Campaign. The campaign was a multiracial group effort of people who fought for economic justice for all Americans through lobbying and direct action protest. The original Poor People’s …
By Terra Morrison, Age 12 There was a time when young people in the United States protested in songs and on the streets until they changed the Constitution. As far back as the Revolutionary War, conscription systems were in place in the United States. A mandatory draft was used in the American Civil War, World …
They Were Forced to Fight, But They Couldn’t Vote Read More »
By LEAH PALAZUELOS, Age 13 With the Trump vs. Biden election approaching in November, voting is on the forefront of everyone’s minds. Voting is the process of making a decision on not just what presidential candidate you prefer, but also local officials, laws (in the form of ballot measures), members of Congress and more. There …
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By NIKHIL SABNIS, Age 10 Knowing how political systems within the United States and around the globe work is crucial to gaining a deeper understanding of our world. There are several different types of elections and branches of government in the United States that will be explained in detail in this article: primary, general and …
By AISHA SIDDIQA HASSIM, Age 15 Palestine, the land of the olive trees, is facing an agricultural crisis. Since Oct. 7, Israel has started a series of bombings, with white phosphorus and other ammunition, that have severely affected the climate and land in Palestine. Temperatures have risen, dry summers have become rainy, and the land …
By AIDA EL-HAJJAR, Age 15 Our smartphones, computers and electronic vehicles seem necessary in our modern world. However, if we look behind the curtain at the mining of metals used to make our devices, the truth isn’t as pretty. Egregious human rights violations are common in the industrial cobalt and copper mining operations in the …
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