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How You Can Help Stray Cats in New York City
By Jade Vasquez, Age 10 Some cats don’t have homes anywhere right now. There are approximately 500,000 stray cats in New York City, according to Brooklyn Paper. I don’t want cats to suffer like this anymore. But many animal shelters are overcrowded. If the shelters get any more animals, they will not be able to …
All About Chess: Is Succeeding in This Popular Game Nature or Nurture?
By Remi Kou, age 10 Did you know that on Chess.com, an online chess app where you can play chess against others, there are 90-100,000 people playing at any given time? Before chess was this popular, it originated in India in the 600s A.D. from the game chaturanga. After that, chess progressed extremely slowly until …
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Personal Report: My Life in Ethiopia
By Markan Zelalem, age 14 I was born in Hawassa, a sunny town with a lake, in south-central Ethiopia. Ethiopia is a country in East Africa and has many special things about it. The first is that it has its own calendar, with special names of months and an extra five-day month. The calendar is …
Someday You Could Be… a Civil Rights Lawyer Like Lauren Carbajal!
By IndyKids Reporters IndyKids: Can you please tell us your name and what you do? Lauren Carbajal: My name is Lauren, and I am a civil rights lawyer. I currently work as an assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), primarily on education, criminal justice, and voting rights cases. LDF was founded by …
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Skateboarding for Beginners
By Enzo McLellan Rosman, age 11 If you’re new to skateboarding, you should know that it is very inclusive, and you don’t have to feel scared or intimidated, although it is very natural to feel intimidated by the skaters doing impressive tricks! There are two main types of skateboarding. One is called vert skating and …
What Is SNAP, and Why Is Trump Cutting It?
By IndyKids Staff and Jade Rodriguez, age 11 Today, many families are having to decide whether to pay for food or pay their rent, because they don’t have enough money to pay for both. This issue is going to get worse because of huge cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Access Program, or SNAP, because of …
How Chatbots Put Kids Like Me at Risk
By Zoe Sophia Carrillo, age 13 Recently, I have noticed that people surrounding me are becoming heavily reliant on AI. For example, my math teacher always assigns me homework generated by ChatGPT. Some of my classmates use Gauth AI for “homework help,” although they’re obviously cheating, and some of my friends message chatbots on Character …
