Kush Kalra, a fifth-grader in Bellaire, TX, has been selected to join the award-winning Scholastic Kids Press program, an international team of 28 Kid Reporters that reports “news for kids, by kids.”
During the 2023-24 school year, Kush will interview leaders and experts in the community about the topics that matter most to young people. Kush’s stories will be published on the Scholastic Kids Press website, and featured in select issues of Scholastic Magazines+, which reach more than 13 million students in U.S. classrooms.
Over the past two decades, Kid Reporters have covered local, national and world events—just this past year, those topics have included the G7 summit in Japan, San Diego Comic-Con, National History Day, hotly contested runoff elections in the U.S., and much more.
Since 2000, Kid Reporters have interviewed a variety of notable figures, including Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafzai; CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper; Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Lin-Manuel Miranda; conservationist Jane Goodall; former First Lady and President of the United States, Michelle and Barack Obama; Captain Underpants and Dog Man creator Dav Pilkey; and more.
