The pint-sized Darth Vader who appeared in a Volkswagen commercial is now a big star after his Super Bowl debut. But, just when you thought the little guy couldn't endear himself anymore, he takes his mask off and reveals he is overcoming a congenital heart condition.
It's not every day that a 13-year-old boy gets a chance to address the United Nations General Assembly. But Felix Finkbeiner is no ordinary teenager. Finkbeiner had one item on his agenda: taking adults to task for their lack of action on planting trees.
While rest of the world was thinking about the gifts they would get from Santa, a 15 year-old boy in San Jose was dreaming of giving his time to suffering or hungry families. While all his friends were busy preparing for Finals, Raghav Sehtia was busy baking cookies and pastries to sell in his fundraising effort for Second Harvest Food Bank.
For amateur astronomers, discovering a supernova is a significant and rare feat. For a 10-year-old amateur to do it — well, that's astronomical. Kathryn Aurora Gray of Fredericton, N.B. is basking in the spotlight after noticing what was later determined to be a magnitude 17 supernova on New Year's Eve.
At age ten, Jai Mehra took a tour of the local homeless shelter with his parents and was told that because of budget cuts, their homework program was being cut. This preyed on his mind until he decided to become a fundraiser.
15-year-old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz kid in Sierra Leone who has invented or manufactured his own batteries, generators and transmitters for radio broadcasting using spare parts he gathered from trash bins. Completely self-taught, the boy was invited by MIT to visit America recently to expand his horizons.
If you felt too lazy to take out the trash this morning or do your taxes on time, check out this Russian prodigy and see what determination can do.
This college student mows lawns for free to help out the elderly and disabled and in the process, is teaching values to teens.
Watch these high school students host nursing home residents to a prom complete with flowers, photos, a king and queen, and dancing.
A young singer who slept outside during a talent competition was so inspired by the homeless men he met that he donated his winnings to a shelter.
A teenager who posted pictures of a dress online so she could sell it, had to defend herself against some faceless cyber-bullies calling her ugly and fat. But the Tennessee Facebook community came to her defense, not only by posting sweet compliments on her beauty, but donating thousands of dollars for a new spring dress for her senior prom.
Instead of holding up his phone to capture dramatic images of a fire on Mission Street in San Francisco, which displaced 54 people in apartments above small businesses, 26-year-old Zack Crockett found a way to help the distraught fire victims.
When their mother Mary died during childbirth in a Charlotte, North Carolina hospital there was no one left to raise her nine children. The only realistic option appeared to be to divide up the siblings and ship them off to relatives or foster parents, but 19-year-old Kayle Mingo decided to fight to keep their family together. 35 years later a reunion showed how successful they were.
These teens didn't waste a moment, springing into action when they saw a 5-year-old boy slip off of a cliff and into a fast-moving river.
The city of Detroit is making sure that their local youths are given valuable work experience over the summer.
This Oakland Raiders player is making sure that 2,000 kids will be able to splash around in the heat this summer totally free of charge.
Julian Rubenfein's biology project was so impressive, it topped 200 other student submissions and is scheduled to travel to the International Space Station.
Jake Sirriani has always wanted to work for the "Tonight Show" – and after submitting this jaw-dropping job application, he made it happen.
Shekeb Neda threw his mother on his back and rushed down the steps in Grenfell Tower as fast as he could during the recent fire disaster to save her life.
Told by doctors he would never walk like a "normal child", he still felt a passion for breakdancing and now teaches his award-winning moves to students.
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