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Welcome to The Playground, where anything goes. We’re Ascend Now, an EdTech startup helping students ages 8-18 pursue their passions and reach their full potential. In each episode, our bright young students showcase their remarkable articulation abilities through talks.
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Channel Z: Turning Indonesian headlines into Gen Z conversation (opens the original)
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Ever watched the news and thought, what the heck are they talking about? Channel Z is a podcast started with the aim of making Indonesia's daily news easy to digest for the Gen Z audience. It's hosted by an Indonesian high schooler, Izzie, who is passionate about economics and political current events. All the news stories are explained with witty, humorous Gen Z analogies, while still communicating valuable information for the young generation to understand and integrate into their daily lives.
A Fantastical Anthology: Inside Ant's First Book (opens the original)
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Ant is nine, and she's already published a book. In this episode she walks us through A Fantastical Anthology - the poems and short stories inside it, and the interactive games she built from them using Twine. She explains why she always starts with a character's personality before anything else, why counting syllables turned out to be the hardest part of the whole thing, and how a trip where she saw the Colosseum became a story called An Unlikely Friendship. In James's Great Chase, players pick
The Healing Note: Sanjana's story with music (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Playground , Sanjana reflects on her personal journey of using music as a means of healing . She recalls being an anxious child who lost confidence after a knee injury in sixth grade left her feeling mentally stuck. Singing became her emotional outlet - a space where she could “let it all out.” Through weekly practice, the notes of her songs transformed fear into courage, giving her a sense of power, freedom, and self-connection. Although uncertainty remains part of her st
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