By ESTEBAN GUERRA, Age 12 Sports, a big audience, and countries competing from all over the world: all coming soon in the 2024 Summer Olympics, located in Paris. The slogan for this year’s Olympics is “Games Wide Open.” France has big plans for the opening ceremony, including a 3.5-mile boat parade down the Seine with …
By Luca Cantagallo, age 13 and IndyKids staff Hundreds of youths skipped school for another Youth Climate Strike on March 3, 2023, to protest against climate change. As the group grew, the chants of “People over profit!” rang through the air. This annual event originated with Greta Thunburg’s 2018 Fridays for Future (FFF) protest that …
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By Chris Ramírez, age 11 Surely just one tree could never grow a whole fruit salad? Well, it turns out one can, and it’s all thanks to Sam Van Aken, an art professor at Syracuse University in New York. The Tree of 40 Fruit does exactly what its name suggests: It grows 40 different fruits …
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By Aisha Siddiqa Hassim, age 13 Earlier this year, parts of Turkey and Syria faced two catastrophic earthquakes. The combined effects of these earthquakes were disastrous and resulted in the death of over 50,000 people. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is facing criticism over the lack of preparedness and slow response after the earthquakes. The …
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Muhammad Hasnain Hassim, age 11 and IndyKids staff The world’s governments reached an agreement on March 4, 2023, at the United Nations on the new High Seas Treaty, an international pact to protect marine life and stop pollution in the high seas. The high seas are international waters where no country’s government has rules restricting …
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By Yoremaily Maldonado, age 10 and IndyKids staff Pharmaceutical companies will no longer be required to test new drugs on animals, thanks to a new law passed earlier this year. Animal rights advocates have been petitioning for years to overturn the 85-year-old law that required companies to test new drugs on animals to see if …
By Abigail Bodden, age 10 Judy Heumann, known as “the mother” of the disability rights movement, passed away on March 5, 2023. Heumann was a lifelong advocate for disability rights internationally. In 1977, she led a 26-day sit-in in San Francisco, which paved the way for the Americans with Disabilities Act, which now protects disabled …
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Charlie Amáyá Scott is a 28-year-old transgender scholar, advocate and social media influencer who lives in Aurora, Colo. She grew up in Chinle, Ariz., in the center of the Navajo Nation. Charlie, who uses “she” and “they” pronouns, is currently working on her Ph.D. in education at the University of Denver.
To Understand the Present, We Must Look to the PastBy IndyKids staff In the 1700s and 1800s, rich and powerful European countries, such as Britain, France, Spain and the Netherlands, began to venture out in search of more land and resources that they deemed valuable. They began to establish colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and …
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By Anya Rothman-Cimino, age 11 Recently, legislatures across the country have been slowly but surely taking away trans youths’ rights. According to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, approximately 450 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced already this year. During an interview on The Daily Show, President Joe Biden spoke out against the anti-trans bills in …
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