Emma Yang is a computer scientist who is passionate about empowering girls and women to pursue careers in male-dominated fields. She believes the world would benefit greatly from the groundbreaking ideas of the uncharted demographic. In 2015, Emma claimed second place in the Technovation Challenge, a technology entrepreneurship competition that encourages girls to practice code. After winning the competition, Emma went on to develop an app called ‘Timeless’.
Timeless helps Alzheimer’s patients and their loved ones to reestablish a sense of control and connectedness at times they feel most powerless. When addressing the matter of stimulating creativity and innovation she had the following to say: “There’s so many opportunities and possibilities. It’s really a time for you to experiment and see what you’re interested in.”
An ‘Army of 16-Year-Olds’ Takes On the Democrats
Young progressives are an unpredictable new factor in Massachusetts elections. They’re ardent, and organized, and they don’t take orders. By Ellen Barry May 19, 2021Updated 4:50 p.m. ET BOSTON — Dana Depelteau, a hotel manager, had just gone public with a...
Look for youth leadership after Covid 19
As societies open up again as the pandemic recedes, there will be an opening for creativity, for new ideas and innovations. For all of us who perceive and honor the capacities of youths to invent, create, and lead, this will be a time for us to recognize new...
The inner teacher is alive and well in youth
Give your youth as much freedom as possible to live out her inner teacher’s guidance while providing your youth with love, safety, and individually-appropriate boundaries.
Shubham Banerjee, 16
It all started with a school science project when then 12-year-old Shubham Banerjee used his Lego bricks to build a braille printer. With this inventive creation, he made computing more affordable for millions of people with vision problems and Braigo — a blend of...
Haile Thomas, 16
Haile Thomas has been an advocate for proper diet and nutrition from a young age. At the start of last year, Haile became the youngest certified health coach in the United States after graduating from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. In 2012, she founded HAPPY...
Taft Foley III, 18
At only 18, Taft Foley III is on the road to making his dreams come true. Foley III has taken it upon himself to create a mobile COVID-19 testing lab that gets people COVID-19 test results within minutes. And, he’s doing it while he's still in high school. Taft is...
Anika Chebrolu, 14
Anika Chebrolu, 14, won the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge. Anika's winning invention uses in-silico methodology to discover a lead molecule that can selectively bind to the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. "The last two days, I saw that there is a lot of...
Youth in Chile stated a national movement that has led to a vote on drafting a new Constitution
Students from the National Institute, Chile's oldest and most famous public high school, in October 2019 started a movement that spread across the nation, a rebellion against the inequities embedded in Chilean society as a result of the Pincohet era Constitution. This...
Haile Thomas, 16
Haile Thomas has been an advocate for proper diet and nutrition from a young age. At the start of last year, Haile became the youngest certified health coach in the United States after graduating from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. In 2012, she founded HAPPY...
Izzy Raj-Seppings, 13
"As Australia burned from tragic bushfires, on Thursday I joined hundreds of others to demand action from our prime minister outside his Kirribilli residence. It was a whirlwind of emotions and action. The drastic change from motivational speeches, to a peaceful sea...
