Chicago middle schoolers named finalists in NPR’s 2022 Student Podcast Challenge

Their podcast, “Holden Immigrant Experience,” amplifies the voices of immigrants around them.

Illustration of a book, a pencil, a TV screen and headphones
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Illustration of a book, a pencil, a TV screen and headphones
Paula Friedrich/WBEZ

Chicago middle schoolers named finalists in NPR’s 2022 Student Podcast Challenge

Their podcast, “Holden Immigrant Experience,” amplifies the voices of immigrants around them.

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Three students at Charles N. Holden Elementary School have been named finalists in NPR’s 2022 Student Podcast Challenge. In the Holden Immigrant Experience, the group of middle schoolers talk to their classmates and teachers about the challenges many people face when they make their way to the U.S.

Reset talks to the team behind the project.

GUESTS: Su Hay Thi Lin, student at Charles N. Holden Elementary School

Trefena Sumoket, student at Charles N. Holden Elementary School

Erika Flores, student at Charles N. Holden Elementary School

Mark Stickler, music teacher at Charles N. Holden Elementary School

Anna Renken, art teacher at Charles N. Holden Elementary School