This week on the Best of Dayton Youth Radio we have a story from Daylan McKinney from Ponitz Career Technology Center in Dayton. McKinney was a senior when this story first aired two years ago. He wanted to deal with a topic that a lot of our high school kids are grappling with, the effect of divorce on a family. I’m 17 years old and a former athlete. I used to play basketball for Ponitz, and I played from freshman to junior year. Then I stopped playing. One thing that was cool about playing

Area high school students are at home now - since classes have been suspended. Today on our series, the Best of Dayton Youth Radio, we hear from a student who learned to appreciate old vinyl records from her younger brother and her dad.

Area high school students are at home now - since classes have been suspended. Today on our series, the Best of Dayton Youth Radio, we hear from a student who learned to appreciate old vinyl records from her younger brother and her dad. I'm Zoe. I'm a senior at Stivers School for the Arts, and I'm also slightly obsessed with JD Salinger. Ever notice how kids these days are into old stuff? We post pictures of polaroids on social media; we pride ourselves for listening to the Beatles. Even our

All this month, on Dayton Youth Radio, we’ve been dipping into the archives and bringing you some teen voices from years past. We call it the Best of Dayton Youth Radio. Today we turn the clock back three years and hear a story from Maya Smith Custer at Stivers School for the Arts. For her story, Maya wanted to interview her best friend, her grandfather, William Smith.

All this month, on Dayton Youth Radio, we’ve been dipping into the archives and bringing you some teen voices from years past. We call it the Best of Dayton Youth Radio. Today we turn the clock back three years and hear a story from Maya Smith Custer at Stivers School for the Arts. For her story, Maya wanted to interview her best friend, her grandfather, William Smith. Alzheimer's is a disease. It's a progressive memory loss. There are more than three million cases in the U.S. a year and it can

It's been about 40 years since the first hip hop records came out, and now rap music is American mainstream. Today's Best of Dayton Youth Radio story was produced by Demetrius Oglesby in 2017 who says he was an academic scholar until he got to high school and became infatuated with Hip-Hop. When we met Demetrius during his senior year of high school, his grades and his household chores had taken a backseat to his dreams of becoming a rap music star.

It's been about 40 years since the first hip hop records came out, and now rap music is American mainstream. Today's Best of Dayton Youth Radio story was produced by Demetrius Oglesby in 2017 who says he was an academic scholar until he got to high school and became infatuated with Hip-Hop. When we met Demetrius during his senior year of high school, his grades and his household chores had taken a backseat to his dreams of becoming a rap music star. I have a passion for rap music, and I just can

Today on the Best of Dayton Youth Radio, we revisit a story from Jack Long about finding his father. Jack produced this story in 2018 when he was a senior at Bellbrook High School.

Today on the Best of Dayton Youth Radio, we revisit a story from Jack Long about finding his father. Jack produced this story in 2018 when he was a senior at Bellbrook High School. All high school seniors go through a discovery period. We’re about to leave the home we grew up in and the people that surrounded us for eighteen years. So, we instinctively reflect back on our family and our parents. We want to know those crazy stories. We want to know those details that make our parents unique. You

Today on the Best of Dayton Youth Radio, a story produced at the You Media Center in Springfield in 2016. It was the first Dayton Youth Story produced by twin sisters. Dosjinee and Odyssee are from a close knit family, and when they produced this story, they had pretty much done everything together, birthday parties, vacations, sharing the same toys. In fact, the 17 year olds had never been apart from each other for more than four hours. Transcript: Odyssee: I remember when we were younger, we