Putting the Extra into Extracurriculars: How Outside of School Activities Impact Students

In this third episode, dive into the challenges and motivations behind youth voting in Kentucky with hosts Viet and Addison. They unpack what drives young Kentuckians to the polls, or keeps them away, and explore how civic engagement is evolving in the Bluegrass State. This episode is part of Beyond the Ballot: Student Stories of Civic Engagement, a collaborative journalistic package by KSVT’s storytelling team aiming to tell the complex stories of how students in our Commonwealth are engaging with civics inside and outside of the classroom.

In this episode, SVT podcast team members talk about the myriad of ways schools try to incentivize students outside of their grades — and if those incentives truly work.