Kids Standard is a new newspaper that is the first of its kind. Children are the primary authors of our Newspaper. Anyone from Toddlers and up  will contribute their own articles, creative writing, and artwork to show the community their talent. Our Newspaper is distributed for free throughout our community.

Our mission is to create a community that empowers you to read and write more, and most importantly to see that you can make a difference by Contributing to our newspaper will help other children get creative and find their Strengths and interests, and is fun too!   We want you children to be seen, heard, and recognized for your work and achievements. We want your peers, educators, parents, scientists, and other professionals in our community to be an integral part of our mission to make it fun for you to learn from each other.

We will spotlight a special story in each issue that will win the contributor a prize at the end of the season.

We are a newspaper by young people for young people.  We encourage and welcome your submissions from related topics. To make our newspaper exciting and stimulating, we welcome tips, advice and ideas from you, your parents, friends and teachers.

	Please submit any material by email to kids@kidsstandard.com or call (315) 699-5884.  We will be presenting prizes and awards for those that are chosen to  be published in our newspaper. By submitting your work, you get  a chance to enter to our Sweepstake drawing at the end of each year. Prizes can be anywhere from laptop, Xbox, iPod, a ticket for 2 Darien Lake or Disney World®. Also, If we choose your story to be the cover story, then you will win a prize (Gift certificate or T- shirt).