A Scholastic Kid Reporter at a World Speech Day Event

Our WSD 2022 World Children’s Day event is special in more ways than one. 

For a start, we’re the only WSD chapter in the Global Network to celebrate World Children’s Day and this is our second year doing this. Better still, this year’s occasion is an in-person event and we drew a full-house. 

And this time around, a newshound came a-calling. Yes, you read it right.

We had a reporter in our midst! Twelve-year-old Jaishivan Sivanesan Paranam (left) who’s been appointed a Scholastic Kid Press reporter this year intends to write about this World Speech Day event. 

He told us that this is “an inspiring event that gives a platform for young people to speak and share on issues close to their heart” – and therefore, it is something he would love to report on. 

Just so you know, the Scholastic Kids Press is a prestigious, award-winning international journalism program. For the 2022-2023 academic year, twenty-nine Kid Reporters, ages 10–14, have been hand-picked across the globe to be part of the international editorial team, reporting to the editor based in New York, USA. Primarily, they will report “news for kids, by kids”. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These student journalists represent 15 US states and 8 countries, including China, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea, and Vietnam. 

Kid Reporters' articles will cover events in local communities and on the world stage on a range of topics, including government, entertainment, the environment, sports, and more. 

Needless to say, he was one of our 43 speakers for the said event on December 20th. Check out his speech here:

 

Jaishiven is undeniably, a good speaker!