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ThisWeek:
Nicholas Fala has two passions — bicycling and technology.
Bicycling is a hobby. His technology skills, on the other hand, allow the Westerville North High School junior to make a living, a very good living.
Fala said he became interested in computers when he was 10, around the time he was making money mowing lawns. His expertise […]
Morgan Hill Times:
High School senior Andre Brooks, a 2007 Staples Invention Quest Kids national semifinalist, is waiting to hear back from the United States Patent and Trademark Office on his SmartMark bookmark.
Not only does Brooks’ version of the bookmark save your page, it saves which line you were on, too. There are two components that […]
LifeHack:
Lately, I’ve been simultaneously using less and less of what I learned in school while discovering more and more skills that are vital to success which were never even offered in school!
So what are the top skills that should be taught to every man, woman, and child who enters our education system?
• How to […]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Like the other girls at Central Catholic Middle School, Sarah Buckel spent considerable energy each year decorating her school locker.
Like the others, she dreaded the possibility of being caught at the end of the school year with the gummy residue from decorative contact paper still clinging to the locker walls.
But unlike the other girls […]
Daily News:
From Florida to Massachusetts, New Mexico to Georgia, Puerto Rico to the Bahamas, Juan Casimiro is training students how to be effective entrepreneurs and in the process become change agents for a sustainable world.
Casimiro is the owner and lead trainer for Insight, an international youth entrepreneurship training company that meets the needs of youth […]
APP.com:
My name is Max Williams and I am a 15yr. old from Neptune NJ.
I am known as MAX BEATs and have been playing music and am the newest DJ for internetwebradio.net my show is on respect73.2.
I play R&B music Saturday mornings 9am-10am and Monday evenings 10p-11pm. I love writing lyrics for other artists, singing, engineering […]
Hometownannapolis:
Katie Neighoff is a busy entrepreneur and the owner of a new business in Galesville, the “Sno Shak.” At the Shak, she sells 24 regular and diet flavors of sno-balls. Katie, who is a student at Anne Arundel Community College, came up with the idea for a sno-ball stand about two years ago when the […]
Verde Magazine:
Paly junior Spencer Davis takes precautions. He confidently straps on his clear safety goggles and pulls on long, yellow rubber gloves. His finger is on the bright red switch of a compact black box, known as a coil gun.
Two wires extend from the box and their shiny metal tips glint as Davis presses them […]
USA Today:
The souring job market and rising costs of the usual teenage indulgences — a slice of pizza, a drive to the mall, the hottest new jeans — are causing teens to do something they rarely do: be thrifty.
It’s a far cry from the freewheeling spending of recent years, when teens splurged on $100 Coach […]
LA Times:
When she was 8 years old, Evelyn Espinoza sold bubble gum and other candy door-to-door in her Los Angeles neighborhood to earn money.
By sixth grade, her mom was buying the enterprising 12-year-old toys at a wholesale mart to resell at school.
Now 17, Espinoza is still hard at work. Her latest business venture, Hippie’s Candles, […]
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