It's a wrap! The fourth annual received nearly 300 entries from students in more than 30 states and the District of Columbia.
Back in March, , and last month, , grand prize winner of the 2024 contest.
Beyond these entries, though, we also received 11 podcasts that that our judges thought had a strong story to tell. Here are the honorable mentions:
by Emily Cowherd
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.
by Lauren Tran-Muchowski, Sabrina Taing and Lindsay Lazarski
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
by Alejandra Quiroz
Miami Dade College, Miami, Fla.
by Violet Mendelsund, Pippa Tsuki Carlson and Adrien Wheaton-Schopp
Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
by Aidan Keen
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Ill.
by Malcolm Bamba and LaRob K. Rafael
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio
by Isabel Jacobson, Maya Mukherjee, Theo Wells-Spackman and Vitus Larrieu
Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
by Lia Portillo, Isabel Juarez Rubio, Natalie Mathews, Atziary Perez, Valentina Puac, Allison Florez Bermudez and Juliana Nobles
Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, La.
by Arundathi Nair
Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
by Samantha Neiss
Minnesota State University, Mankato, Mankato, Minn.
by Juliana Mills, Jeffery Salinas, Kristine Mendoza, Kari Can, Evan Laurino and Victoria Mills
San Diego City College, San Diego, Calif.
Congratulations everyone! Thanks again for sharing your stories with us. We loved listening to every minute of them, and we hope to hear from you again this fall.
NPR's College Podcast Challenge will return Fall of 2025. for the latest updates. You can reach us at studentpodcastchallenge@npr.org.
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