A 17 year-old Michigan teen won the top award and $100,000 in the Intel Science Talent Search for his research on breast cancer, which could lead to more direct, targeted, and less toxic treatments.
High school basketball player Landus Anderson is one of the top players in the state of Florida averaging an impressive 19 points-per-game. And he does it all with the use of only one arm. His parents placed a basketball in his hand when he was only three, and saw the determination that would show up in all areas of his life -- academics, community service, and sports.
Since Boston Magazine published an article naming Lawrence, Massachusetts the City of the Dammed" and calling the residents godforsaken, an outraged community has been working to prove there are more positive things in the city than the label Nation's Stolen Car Capital would suggest. Taking matters into their own hands, a group of high school students have printed five issues of a newsletter, called What's Good In the Hood?, hand-delivering the positive news stories around town.
Who says science can't be fun? At the second annual White House Science Fair last week, President Obama got the chance to shoot a marshmallow across the State Dining Room using 14-year-old inventor Joey Hudy's "Extreme Marshmallow Cannon." (Video)
Gabe Marsh was raised to believe he is no different than anybody else. Now the athlete is inspiring more people as a finalist in America Inspired, a national contest sponsored by Examiner.com. His story was featured in the Huntsville Times, here.
Giselle Osborn was among a handful of youth chosen to travel to Haiti this past August as part of a delegation to build eco-friendly homes. Working side-by-side with the local villagers, they not only had to contend with oppressive heat, humidity and mosquitoes, but also the torrential rains of Hurricane Irene. Despite the miserable conditions, the Georgia teen is headed back again in mid-January to help a group of girls orphaned by the catastrophic earthquake of 2010.
A marine biology student at a NY high school learned she was named a finalist for the $100K Intel Science prize just days after her family moved into a homeless shelter.
Harli Jordean found his true passion before most other entrepreneurs -- at eight years old. While his friends are playing computer games, he is busy liaising with suppliers, buying stock and handling orders for his internet marble empire.
Angela Zhang won a $100,000 scholarship as winner of the 2011 Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology last week for her microscopic nanoparticle cancer treatment.
A 17 year-old became a model of coolness under fire following an August 20 attack on an Israeli town. Using knowledge gained from a book she'd read when she was 12, she saved the life of a man left for dead by utilizing scraps of material found in the wreckage.
A superfan of all things art in Los Angeles, Cooper Berella, wanted one thing only for his 12th birthday -- to be able to curate an art show for his favorite cause.
TV cameras were focused on two boys who tried to catch the same ball at an Arizona Diamondbacks game. The gesture of kindness displayed afterward surprised the broadcast announcers in the booth. The boy's generosity was paid back tenfold, as the baseball club rewarded him for his good deed.
One month before she was fatally injured in a car crash last week, Rachel had made it known that all she wanted for her 12th birthday was donations toward her goal of raising $300 to bring clean water to African villagers. After she died, the donations poured in beyond any expectation.
A small Catholic school was presented with a check for one hundred thousand dollars during an an unforgettable assembly celebrating recycling. The 150 students at St. Pascal School performed beyond expectations collecting more than 300,000 containers of recyclables during a 3 month period. They beat out every other school in the country to win the title and generous check.
A boy of nine has become the youngest trained pilot to fly solo in a hot-air balloon. The New Mexico boy floated for 29 minutes, landing perfectly after two years of training, showing maturity well beyond his years.
A Connecticut high school headmaster has reversed her decision to ban a student from the prom after he broke school rules by hanging his prospective date's invitation at the school entrance in big cardboard letters.
Forty finalists were chosen in the 'Doodle 4 Google' contest from more than 107,000 entries, and when public voting concluded, a 7-year-old took home the top prize with his drawing, 'Space Life'.
Jeffrey Hanson is a talented young artist who has plowed profits from the sale of color-splashed canvases into the stock market. Not only that, Jeffrey is a visually-impaired artist who has helped raise more than $275,000 for charities through sales of his paintings.
A math and social studies teacher at Camp David Gonzales, a juvenile probation camp in California, worked tirelessly with a group of incarcerated young men to turn a kit of wooden planks into a solar-powered boat, able to compete against vessels built by high school students from across Southern California.
While most students learn about Nazi Germany through books and movies, Naperville, Ill. middle schoolers have done real detective work to reunite two Holocaust survivors after 73 years. Madison Junior High eighth graders used Google, Facebook and databases of newspapers to bring together Edith Westerfeld of Skokie, Ill. and Gerda Katz of Seattle.
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