A team of tenacious robotics students have changed the life of a little boy with mobility issues after his parents found they could not afford a wheelchair.
This teenager from Nevada has just set a new standard for what it means to go above and beyond the call of duty for your family.
This new survey asked 2,000 Americans when it was appropriate to use slang and which words might be the most irksome to hear.
Joshua Caraway could have spent his spring break partying with his friends, but instead, he spent his vacation picking up leftover trash.
If she wins the prize, this 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl would become the youngest person to ever be a Nobel laureate.
This 23-year-old artist has come up with the most adorable way to recycle discarded tires cluttering up his city streets.
For almost 30 years, youngsters have been able to use this special hotline for help with anything from failing grades to coping with their home life.
Over the course of his youth, this 19-year-old has built several prosthetic arms out of LEGOs – and he one day hopes to do something similar for other kids.
The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, which opened in January 2007 in South Africa to provide educational opportunities for gifted girls from impoverished backgrounds, celebrated its first graduating class Saturday. 72 girls of graduating age filed onto the stage, all wearing white dresses, to cheers and tears from Oprah herself, who'd invested $40 million to give them a safe haven and opportunities undreamed of before.
Pop star Lady Gaga launched her new foundation with some powerful friends at Harvard Wednesday, a non-profit charity whose mission is to "foster a more accepting society and help youth challenge meanness and cruelty.
"The Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela's poor has been wowing the world, and arrives next week at the New England Conservatory."
While some people were recovering from last night's festivities, these youngsters took to the streets to clean up the aftermath.
This opera singer went from being locked in solitary confinement as a child to enchanting audiences on a Broadway stage.
This new survey suggests that – despite what crotchety seniors might say about young whippersnappers – the future is in good hands.
A Menominee, Michigan teenager is being called a life-saving hero after preventing a woman from jumping off a bridge.
On December 6, a group of 10th-graders from Hashmonaim and Beit Shemesh arrived in New York to help in the ongoing clean-up and fix-up efforts after Hurricane Sandy.
Pushpa Basnet, a Nepalese woman who runs a home for children so they don't have to live behind bars with their incarcerated parents, was named the 2012 CNN Hero of the Year on Sunday night. She was in her twenties when she started a home in Kathmandu where children can receive education, food, medical care and a chance to live a more normal life.
In what is a 'rags to riches' story, Chanda Zaveri fled from the pressures of getting married at 17 and returned home 30 years later as a millionaire. Born in a conservative Marwari family, her mother wanted to force her into a marriage that she did not want and a life that she did not choose.
For the past 12 years, the Akshaya Patra Foundation has served cooked food to nearly 1.4 million children in government schools across the India. And now, it has reached an important milestone serving its billionth meal in August.
A large scale study in Britain suggests eight-year-olds who were fed on demand as infants had higher IQs -- and did better in school -- than did children who were fed on a schedule.
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