Fall 2024, Issue 88
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Month: September 2024
Getting Wild With…Oysters!
By AMELIA GONZALEZ GINES, age 10 Did you know that oysters have lived for about 15 million years? Wow! For humans, we become adults in 18 years, but oysters become adults in one year, and they can live for up to 20 years. Oysters are a type of mollusc. Snails and octopuses are also molluscs. …
Someday You Could Be…Yumi Rodriguez!
By ARTHUR ALCOFF, age 13 “Yumi has enough hope and imagination and creativity to get us out. Holding on to hope is really important,” says Soledad Aguilar-Colon, a staff member at IndyKids. Yumi Rodriguez works within climate science and performative and visual arts. She is also a community organizer at the Climate Imaginarium, which is …
Meet IndyKids Reporter: 9-Year-Old Noel Fernandez!
Meet Noel Fernandez, a 9-year-old IndyKids reporter from Yonkers, N.Y. Noel’s favorite hobby is playing baseball, but he also enjoys gardening and taking care of plants, and playing with his dog. He also likes going to the beach. Besides being a baseball player, when he grows up, he wants to do something related to technology, …
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Olympics Hijab Ban: Building Barriers, Not Bridges
By AISHA SIDDIQA HASSIM, age 15 Hijab is a representation of who I am. It is a message to the world that I am a Muslim woman and I am proud of it. France took away a Muslim woman’s right to represent herself and her people at the Olympics. The 2024 Paris Olympics was supposed …
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Tight, a Book about Peer Pressure
By AYAAN SOORMA, age 10 One of my favorite books is Tight by Torrey Maldonado. Books that I like are adventurous and teach an important lesson. Tight teaches an extremely important lesson, especially for kids and teenagers. Tight focuses on peer pressure. The main character of Tight is Bryan. Bryan is a normal sixth grader …
Randoseru: More Than Just a Bag
By NIKHIL SABNIS, age 11 Many students and their families went shopping over summer break to find a backpack that fit them for the new school year — perhaps because their old one tore last year, or perhaps just to start the school year with something new. Maybe you were one of them. Not in …
NYC Climate Writers Collective Imagines a Better Future
By LEE CLARK, age 12 In order to have a brighter, more positive future, we have to imagine it first. The NYC Climate Writers Collective was founded by a group of storytellers to draw attention to the climate crisis. The individuals in the group were feeling “really lousy about the way that the climate crisis …
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The Crisis of the Imagination
By: ARTHUR ALCOFF age 13 “The climate crisis is a crisis of imagination,” says social scientist and performance artist Yumi Rodriguez when talking about the Climate Imaginarium, where she works as a community organizer. The Climate Imaginarium is a cozy house on Governors Island with haikus and art about climate change on the walls. In …
Bringing Oysters Back to NY Harbor
By ESTEBAN GUERRA, age 12 Billion Oyster Project is an organization that is trying to return the oysters back to their natural habitat and prevent them from extinction by creating more oyster reefs in New York Harbor. The reason why they might go extinct is because people continue to harvest and eat them too quickly, …
