By Tamar Coon Urban Health Media Project Before March of 2020, everything was normal: I was in 8th grade at Columbia Heights Educational Campus. We were reading a book that I loved. Then, my homeroom teacher started talking about a plague, and I heard about a virus and lockdowns happening in China. All of a sudden we were out of school and learning from home. Tamar Coon At first I was stressed because I was totally confused about how to navigate the new technology and platfor

By Olivia Fendrich and Radiah Jamil On a fall day outside Francis Scott Key High School in Carroll County, Md., a circle of chairs was arranged in the grass, where about 50 members of Sources of Strength took turns trading truths and seats. From the center of the circle, junior Sarah Myers introduced herself to the other students and told them: she’d hugged a cow. She bolted to an open chair as other students who had also embraced the farm animal rushed to find a new seat. Fo