Camp Our Time focuses on the performing arts. Campers aged 8 to 19, are boys and girls, racially and socially diverse, with two common bonds: an unshakable stuttering problem and the courage to go on stage anyway.
17 year old Mike Perham was greeted to a hero's welcome when he arrived in Portsmouth, England after a nine month trip around the world.
Zach Bonner finally made it Thursday, climbing the steps of the U.S. Capitol and completing his walk from Tampa, Florida - a 1,225 mile trek - on behalf of homeless children.
16 year-old Zac Sunderland set off from California 13 months ago in his 36-foot sloop, Intrepid, before he even had a drivers license and became the first person under the age of 18 to sail solo-circumnavigating around the globe.
Katherine Cornthwaite's Grade 10 class went silent when she read aloud a small story about a garbage collector's kindness, from the newspaper. Then they earned a pizza party for filling a board with their own kindness stories written on sticky notes...
5-year-old Phoebe became sad after seeing a hunger person holding a cardboard sign on the street. She decided she wanted to help feed these people and knew that she could raise money by recycling cans, because her dad would bring her to trade cans for cash on the weekends. Collecting a nickel per can she wildly exceeded her goal of raising one thousand dollars and donated much more to the San Francisco food bank.
The youngest person to ever discover a supernova - a 14-year-old girl - found one of the most peculiar and interesting supernovae ever.
She is known as the "smart girl". . . the girl who landed at Jefferson High School only 18 months ago. What her friends did not know is that she has been homeless for years. But not anymore. Her plane left for Harvard the day after graduation.
Chase Abrams started taking college classes at the same time he began high school. The next thing he knew, he was renting two caps and two gowns. Abrams was involved in the Accelerated College Enrollment and Pre-Accelerated College Enrollment program at Cal Sate Los Angeles.
In a city where dropout rates are always among New Jersey's highest and test scores are among the lowest, one experimental school, Camden's MetEast High School, opened in 2005, had zero drop-outs among its first graduating class this year, and a college acceptance letter in each of their hands.
At 17-years-old, Calif. native Johnny Strange is the youngest person ever to conquer the tallest summits on each of the seven continents.
A school will reward students who perform random acts of kindness after an ex-homeless man gave $10,000 to thank students who helped him.
When Eric Ensey traveled to India this year, he shook the hand of a man who was freed from bonded labor by the money his teenage students had raised in the Seattle area.
Zach Bonner has already walked farther and done more for charity than many grown-ups. Now he's about to make good on his vow to walk more than 1,200 miles from Tampa to Washington to bring attention to and raise money for the plight of homeless kids in the United States with his 'My House to the White House' trip.
Thirteen-year-old Kavya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kan., has claimed the title of the nation's top speller. Kavya aced the word 'Laodicean' Thursday night to win the 82nd Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Two years ago 5-year-old Annie suffered a massive seizure caused by undiagnosed Addison's Disease. Inspired by the call to "act as if what you do makes a difference," Bothell High senior Jenn Lund, 18, organized an auction this year that yeilded $14,000 to help pay for treatment of the child's brain damage.
An 11 year old girl has shaved her head to raise money to build a school in Uganda. Her goal is to raise donations of $10,000 through her family's website, DivinePurposUnleashed.com. Watch her talk about her hopes and her hair on YouTube:
A precocious 11-year-old in the 5th grade, Ben Berrafato, is challenging one of America's most endearing and widely held beliefs, eloquently arguing against the need for homework. He may be right, say experts like the author of "The Case Against Homework."
Even though his Scoutmaster said it couldn't be done in the time remaining, a Lond Island teen managed to earn all 121 merit badges offered by the Boy Scouts of America. His inspiration came from his grandmother who was dying and said, "Why don't you try to earn every one?"
A group of students at Atlanta's Ron Clark Academy thought they'd just be performing their song 'Dear Obama' at a news conference on Wednesday. But after finishing the song, the kids got a big surprise.
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