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.
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.
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.
For years, a high school in downtown Los Angeles has made doing good deeds a part of the school's curriculum. Now social services agencies are counting on the students' help.
Englewood's Urban Prep Academy for Young Men in Chicago has fulfilled its lofty mission within four years: 100 percent of its first senior class has been accepted to four-year colleges.
From doing extra chores to collecting from the Tooth Fairy, Top of the World Elementary students spent the last month getting creative about fundraising. The $4,520 collected isn't going to a school program, though. Teachers asked students to look beyond their needs and support the Free Wheelchair Mission, an Irvine-based nonprofit organization that sends specialized wheelchairs to countries around the world.
According to a national survey released by the Girl Scouts on the eve of New York City's legendary Fashion Week, most girls are happy with their bodies and reject thin fashion models as unrealistic.
A 3 year-old girl was watching the news on TV in New Mexico when she heard there were children who lost their limbs. She ran to her bedroom closet to fetch her own prosthetic limb -- one that she had outgrown -- and told her mom she wanted to give it to a child in Haiti.
For the past 2 weeks, 7-year-old kids in an Alabama elementary school have has been obsessed with shoes, frantically collecting as many as they can for donation to the victims of Haiti's earthquake.
Jessica was only a sixth grader when she learned that most girls in Rwanda are orphans, and they don't have the money or materials to attend school. Over the next several years, she rallied her classmates to raise money for rural Rwandan girls through bake sales, tee shirt sales and donation drives.
Seven-year-old Charlie Simpson from London has raised more than £136,000 ($220,000) for Haitian earthquake survivors.
A 12 year-old girl who had beaten cancer when she was younger, annually designs holiday cards to help raise money for pediatric cancer research. The card she created this year was given to the two men who haul trash, who later returned inspired, to give a donation.
Elizabeth, an 18-day-old infant, rests in a tent hospital after spending eight days trapped in her home before being rescued during earthquake relief efforts. - U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daniel Barker (Jan. 20, Jacmel, Haiti)
11 year-old Tanner asks everyone he meets to consider what life would be like without socks. Launching a holiday sock drive to benefit needy children in Orlando, so far, he's collected more than 500 pairs -- and he's hoping for more by his Dec. 14 deadline.
Efren Peñaflorida grew up in a Filipino slum near the city dump but vowed to better his life through education. In 1999, while in high school, he recruited friends to reach out to slum kids as an alternative to gang membership, always rampant on-campus.
After two years of surgery and chemotherapy for a brain tumor, a nine-year-old girl wanted other kids with cancer to have a gentle companion like her dog, Coco. So she embarked on a fundraising campaign of her own invention to pay for feeding and training companion dogs for kids like her.
On July 22 1941, before her family had gone into hiding, Anne Frank is captured on film during the next door neighbor's wedding festivities. She is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom.
A team at West Philadelphia High School is hoping to win the top prize of $10 million in the prestigious Automotive X Prize competition, even though they are the only high school competitor in a field of about 90 teams from the U.S. and overseas.
Four-year-old Heather Bailey saw an interview with a grandma and her grandchildren about their difficulties obtaining clean water and decided she wanted to help. When she learned it would cost more than $1,000, she said she wanted to build the whole well and began fundraised with a lemonade stand and selling cupcakes and her own artwork.
The Encouragement Foundation, sponsor of this year's National Day of Encouragement, launched its "7 Days Across America" campaign to showcase the impressive actions of today's youth. The tour, which began September 5 in San Francisco, will conclude in New York City honoring a $5,000 college scholarship winner on its third annual National Day of Encouragement, September 12.
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