Archives for the ‘Featured’ Category

What Lurks on Saturn’s Moon, Titan?

Jan 11th, 2012 • Category: Featured

Could there be alien life in our solar system? Explore Titan, a world unlike our own.



Wasps: Do I Know You?

Jan 11th, 2012 • Category: Featured

Did you know that there is an insect who never forgets a face?



Someday, You Could Be a Fashion Designer, Just Like: Ntumba Mukendi

Dec 5th, 2011 • Category: Featured

Socially conscious fashion designer Ntumba Mukendi promotes gender empowerment around the world.



Nothing: a poem

Dec 5th, 2011 • Category: Featured

A poem about bullying, by Laila Swingle, age 10.



How Random is Rock, Paper, Scissors?

Nov 5th, 2011 • Category: Featured, Puzzles & Games, Science & the Environment

The science behind a classic children’s game!



Little Blue Penguins Need Sweaters

Nov 5th, 2011 • Category: Animals, Featured

Find out how to knit a sweater to help a Little Blue Penguin in New Zealand!



World Outcry Over Death Penalty for Troy Davis

Nov 5th, 2011 • Category: Featured

The case of Troy Anthony Davis, who was executed in September 2011 by the state of Georgia, attracted international attention and renewed efforts to abolish the death penalty in the United States.



Your Turn: How Do You Feel About the Death Penalty?

Nov 4th, 2011 • Category: Featured

IndyKids asked these kids in Manhattan, New York, what they think.



Ten Years Later: Still Waging War in Afghanistan

Nov 2nd, 2011 • Category: Featured

October 7, 2011 was the tenth anniversary of the U.S. war in Afghanistan.



The Ten Years After September 11, 2001

Sep 8th, 2011 • Category: Featured

Right after the 9/11 attacks, the United States government launched two wars, creating hundreds of thousands more victims, and took away rights and freedoms of people living in the United States, too. Here, IndyKids takes a look at what has happened after, and in the name of, September 11, 2001.