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When Beyond Magenta hit shelves in 2014, little had been written or said publicly about transgender and nonbinary teens. The book received positive reviews. By 2015, it was being challenged.
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The trucking industry projects it will need to hire over a million drivers over the next decade. One idea that's gained some traction: Bring in younger drivers, starting in high school.
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Sharing Indigenous Oklahoma stories at Field Museum exhibit ‘really inspiring’ for Stilwell studentsStateImpact is on a listening tour with Oklahoma’s youth, and they've brought along their microphones. Reagan and Jimma are students at Stilwell High School. Earlier this year, the pair, along with their classmate Tyla, got to share some of the poetry they worked on at the Field Museum in Chicago as part of the Native Truths exhibit.
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About 200 young people used Florida law to successfully petition the state to adopt renewable energy faster. One of them, Levi Draheim, is a veteran at suing the government to act on climate change.
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As the landscape of social media changes, teens are spending more time online.
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For his Eagle Scout project, teenager Dominique Claseman built a veterans memorial in Olivia, Minnesota. With help from his community, he raised more than $77,000 to complete it.
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'Will you accept me as I am?': Tulsa teens discuss race, gender and interacting with peers at schoolStateImpact continues its listening tour with Oklahoma's youth. This time, we talked to a couple of Tulsa high school students about race, gender and how they interact with their peers at school.
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When 14-year-old Hudson Rowan drew his spider-robot-humanoid character for an "I Voted" sticker competition, he didn't realize just how far the illustration would travel.
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Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz told a crowd in Tampa that "nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb," launching him into an online battle with a teenage activist.
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After finding she had ten bereaved kids in her class, one Florida teacher created a teen grief group. It's a place where kids can support each other and feel they're not alone.