Teen Use of Tobacco Continues Decline, as Does Smoking by Movie Characters
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control analyzed 2000-2009 data from the National Youth Tobacco Survey on tobacco use and found a significant decline over the decade.
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13-Year-Old Raises $32,000 for School Art Supplies
When her school cut art supplies from the budget last year, Tae Tae worried that kids who could not afford their own supplies would be left out. She started writing letters to big companies asking for help. She wrote 50 in all, and heard back from 45. Donations flooding in totaling $32,000 and she started her own non-profit.
Just Walk: Boy Crosses America for Homeless
A 12-year-old philanthropist named Zach Bonner has walked from his home in Florida to the Washington, DC Capitol building, all in the name of homeless kids. Now he is walking across the country, 1900 miles so far, raising money and bringing hope to the homeless along the way.
3 Year-old Saves Dad by Walking Two Blocks to Fire Station
A toddler's father collapsed Friday in their Manteca, California, home and the three-year-old did exactly what she was taught -- walking two blocks to reach Fire Station to ask for help because her daddy was frozen.
Teens 'Repair the World' and Win Big Awards
Five honorees took home checks for $36,000 after winning the Teen Tikkun Olam Awards (Hebrew for 'repair the world') for being outstanding teen role models in California, presented by the Helen Diller Family Foundation.
Students Design Electric Car to Travel 400 Miles Per Gallon
Who said you have to be an engineer or a even a designer to come up with a car that gets 100mpg? How about a group of US high school students in Missouri who designed and built a car that could get up to 450 mpg, with an electric motor that can be plugged into any regular home AC outlet.
15-Year-Olds Plant Garden in One of the Worst Neighborhoods in Detroit
Despite her own struggles, one teen has stepped up to help revitalize Detroit. She led a group of volunteers to plant and rebuild in an abandoned lot. Eventually they will donate the food grown here.
Hometown Hero: Teen Fills Void When Youth Music Programs are Cut
When 14-year-old Larry Wang heard about the local school district cutting the fourth-grade band program, he knew he had to try to save the music. Fourth grade is the level at which Larry, as a public school student, got his first chance to learn an instrument. "Fourth grade really inspired me, and if you took […]
Ten Hero Kids Voted Most Huggable, Each Awarded $10,000
Ten youth judged as this year's Huggable Heroes were honored today for their volunteer efforts at making the world a better place -- in total, raising funds and collecting items valued at more than $22.5 million. They gathered at the Build-A-Bear Workshop company headquarters in St. Louis, after having volunteered an average of more than 650 hours each month.
Child's Lemonade Fund-Raiser Marks 10 Years, $30 Million for Cancer
More than 10,000 volunteers hosted lemonade stands over the weekend to commemorate the 10th anniversary of a 4-year-old who first raised $2,000 for pediatric cancer while she was being treated for neuroblastoma.
Bird Drawings by Young Girl Raise $60,000 for Gulf Wildlife Rescue
Saddened by what she imagined the oil spill was doing to wildlife near her family's summer home on the Gulf coast, an 11-year-old began creating pictures of birds to raise money for rescue operations, and claims to have raised $60,000 so far.
Autistic Honors Student Delivers Stirring Graduation Speech
As a poster boy for perseverance, 18-year-old Eric Duquette, who didn't speak until the age of five, but now is fluent in Spanish, inspired his high school classmates last week when he delivered a stirring commencement speech.
'Problem Kids' Show Quilting Talents at Alternative School
A tough 17 year old got kicked out of schoolbut now he knows how to make a quilt. In fact, he and other teens from an alternative school that serves students expelled from their regular campus or who ran into trouble with the law swept a youth competition at the San Mateo County Fair with their quilt-making abilities.
High School Sings Away Hate Group
When the Kansas Hate group known at the Westboro Baptist Church announced it would picket a Bay Area School and Jewish Institutions, students at Gunn High School decided they could not sit by quietly. They organized a Love-in.
Girls Getting Meaner? Myth Busted by 40-Year Positive Trend
News reports and inflamed commentary that invoke recent incidents as evidence of a modern epidemic of "mean girls" ignore real positive trends in girl crime. Every reliable measure shows that violence by girls has been plummeting for 40 years.
Adopted Russian Orphan Raises $60,000 to Build Playground Back Home
Alex Griffith, 16, was adopted as a baby from a Krasnoyarsk, Russia, hospital. Now, he's raised more than $60,000 to design and build a playground for the Krasnoyarsk orphans remaining.
Teen Turns Escape From Pain into Charity for Kids
16-year-old Mackenzie escapes from severe pain through the reading of books. Her painful disease led her to want to help others kids with their own escape from -- from childhood abuse or health problems. Her charity, Sheltering Books, which has collected and donated 38,000 books for homeless and abused kids since 2007.
NY Girl Saves Choking Friend Thanks to SpongeBob
spongebob.jpgWhen a high school student started choking, her best friend was inspired to action by a SpongeBob SquarePants episode, where she believes she saw the cartoon character use the Heimlich maneuver.
Schools Recycle More Than 48,000 Pounds of Beverage Cans to Win Awards
School kids demonstrated a "can-do" attitude in this season's Aluminum Can Recycling National School Challenge. 133 schools, representing more than 70,000 students, joined with aluminum suppliers and beverage can manufacturers in the competition. Collectively, over the 12-week period they raised over $53,000 and recycled more than 48,094 pounds of used aluminum beverage cans.
Youth Saves Hundreds of Chilean Islanders After Sounding Alarm
A 12 year-old girl saved the lives of scores of inhabitants of Juan Fernandez archipelago, 373 miles from the Chilean coastline, when she sounded the alert following an earthquake.