Last week, rising eighth grader Rory Hu was chosen as one of the winners of the New York Times Student Podcast Contest. Her podcast was one of just 11 selected from nearly 1,100 submissions. The contest allowed teenagers to create podcasts about any topic of their choosing, “as long as they provide a complete listening experience in five minutes or less.”
Hu submitted episode 11 of her podcast, “These Little Pieces,” which explored “The Past, the Present and the Fork-ture” of one of the most widely used kitchen utensils, the fork.