Baking cookies and selling brownies don't seem like solutions that could end childhood hunger, yet, thanks to the Great American Bake Sale Campaign, 5.3 million nutritious meals and snacks were served to low-income children paid for by proceeds from bakes sales all across the country.
"In a campaign to raise money for the people of Darfur, two high school students, using social networking sites Facebook and MySpace, have raised more than $300,000 from students at 2,000 high schools, showing the strength of banding together over the Internet."
141 Presidential Scholars were being honored recently at the White House, when they handed him a letter signed by close to 50 of the students that urged an end to torture and detainee rendition.
Fifteen-year-old Jacob Komar rebuilds old computers that are destined for the landfill and gives them to needy families -- 1,500 since he was nine years old.
"A two-year-old girl saved her mother after she collapsed by telling the emergency operator their name and address and tending to the woman as they waited for an ambulance."
Silicon Valley gaming startup executive, a precocious 13-year old founder and CEO of Elementeo, is injecting fun into education...
"At one point, he slept in a trash bin to stay warm outside of Jackson, Miss. Today this eleven-year-old is student of the year"
"A Queensland schoolgirl who police say may have saved the lives of a busload of students with her quick wits and steely nerve has shrugged off her bravery, saying it was just common sense."
Ben Underwood had cancer in his eyes at age two and lost his sight. But, he doesn't "see" himself as blind. He plays just like other kids and he uses echo-location to see.
With $10,000 he saved from doing odd jobs, a 17 year-old boy from Truman, Minnesota is stocking the empty grocery shelves on Main Street to try to revitalize the dying town.
Alpha Achievers are celebrating 10 years of encouraging academic excellence among ethnic minority male high school students in Howard County, Maryland.
For the 4th year in a row, a British School teacher has inspired her students to raise thousands of dollars -- this year, more than $7,000 -- to provide a merry Christmas to less fortunate families in the Houston area.