By Aida Cepeda, age 11 Extreme heat causes problems for people—we all know that. But there’s more to heat than just dehydration and feeling hot. Extreme heat can harm human health by causing heat strokes or even death. Just last year, around 2,300 people died in the United States during the hottest summer months. In …
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I’m a first-generation Muslim American with immigrant parents: My dad was born in Damascus, Syria, and my mom was born in Milan, Italy. Growing up with immigrant parents is hard enough, since you practice a different religion and have different values than everyone around you.
How are schools going to deal with this sudden upsurge of technology use in the school day?
Phones and the ability to communicate over long distances are a pretty recent part of human history. In the last 150 years, the evolution of phones has impacted society in good ways and bad. In the last 25 years alone, there have been massive shifts in phone technology that have completely changed how we live …
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 LEAH PALAZUELOS, Age 13 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a government organization tasked with protecting human health and the environment, as stated on its website. Its mission includes ensuring that “Americans have clean air, land and water.” Eighteen young Californians are taking legal action against the EPA in a case titled Genesis B. …
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By Viviana Nadal-Villano, Age 13 Paradise in your mind Your perfect world A place where light spins and hope dances Free. But sometimes a touch of reality dims that place It becomes repressed Forgotten A fictitious dream that distracts Where has the hope gone? Why does fate seem to wield its blade with such merciless …
By Grace Stevens, AGE 13 Spring is when the leaves start to appear When the end of school is soon and near When the flowers blow in the wind passing by And there are lots of different kites in the sky Spring is when the bees buzz buzz buzz And the birds chirp chirp chirp …
By Luca Cantagallo, age 14 I had a feeling I would get in trouble when I headed to school that day. I go to a Catholic school, and this was supposedly not acceptable. I was wearing a pro-Palestine sweater, but I had no clue how far my teachers would go to get me to take …
