A Kauai student's podcast on Filipino courtship earns an NPR mention
Kauai High School student Angela Querubin earned an honorable mention in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge for a podcast about harana, the Filipino tradition of courtship through song.
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Kauai High School student Angela Querubin earned an honorable mention in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, Hawai'i Public Radio reported. Her podcast is about harana, the Filipino practice of courtship through song.
The station spoke with Querubin and her teacher, Jonathon Medeiros, on The Conversation. The mention is a national nod for a student project made on Kauai, about a tradition carried in music.
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Angela Querubin is a student at Kauai High School in Lihue, Hawaii. She made a podcast about harana, a Filipino tradition in which someone sings love songs as a way of courting. NPR's Student Podcast Challenge gave the show an honorable mention. Hawai'i Public Radio talked with Querubin and her teacher, Jonathon Medeiros, about how the episodes came together. The honor is a national mention for a local story about music and how people say they care.
- How can a song say something a conversation might not?
- What tradition from your family would make a good podcast episode?
- What does a listener need in the first minute of a podcast?
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