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Girl Wins Top Prize Inventing Ebola Test That’s Cheaper, Better, Faster
A 16-year-old Connecticut girl has won this year’s Google Science Fair by creating a revolutionary new test to detect Ebola.
Oliva Hallisey’s test kits are...
Microsoft Invests $75Mil to Encourage Aspiring Engineers in High School
Public school computer science is getting expensive. Fortunately, this tech giant has promised to help sponsor a new generation of engineers.
Microsoft has announced plans...
Lawyer Gives Full Backpacks To Every Elementary School Kid in Detroit
Many of the students in Detroit, Michigan’s schools show up to class with used or secondhand school supplies, making it harder for them to...
Billionaire Fed Up With Low Salaries Raises Math Teachers’ Pay By $15K
After taking a look at teacher salaries across America, a hedge fund billionaire decided that something just wasn’t adding up.
Jim Simons, who made his...
Egyptian Billionaire Now In Talks to Buy Two Entire Islands for Refugees
An Egyptian billionaire is one step closer to buying a homeland for refugees who are fleeing war and flowing into the EU.
Naguib Sawiris is...
Best Class in Chicago Invites Dogs to Read With Kids
Dog really has always been man’s best friend – and apparently best teacher too.
10 different elementary schools in Chicago are being visited by some...
Billionaire Offers to Buy Island for Refugees Pouring into Europe
While Europeans are offering up houses to refugees, an Egyptian billionaire wants to buy an island where tens of thousands of refugees can live...
Amy Poehler Online Community, Smart Girls, Urges Teens to Be Themselves
Amy Poehler loves “weird and wonderful” more than Leslie Knope loves waffles.
Which is why she started Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, an online community for...
Church Installs 6 Colorful Micro Homes in First Nashville Village for Homeless
Six brightly painted “micro houses” now populate the first Micro-home Village in Nashville, thanks to a church community’s relentless leader.
The shelters are only 60...
Bike Bells Are Ringing: Librarians Pedal Books to Kids In “Book Deserts”
Librarians around the U.S. have found a new way to peddle books to kids by literally pedaling the books on bikes.
Public libraries and schools...
High School Of Entrepreneurship: All Students Prepared to Start Businesses
This is not your typical high school — there are very few lectures, students write on walls, and the first class doesn’t start until...
LeBron James Pays for College Scholarships For 1,100 Students
Thousands of school kids will score a full, four-year college scholarship with an assist from basketball superstar LeBron James.
James announced he’s giving the academic...
Town Installs Outdoor Refrigerator so Locals Can Feed the Hungry in Spain
People in the Basque town of Galdakao, Spain, put their leftovers in the fridge — not just the ones in their homes, but the...
Mountain Gorilla Population Bounces Back, Quadruples to 1000
The largest population of mountain gorillas in the world has grown to four times the size of its once-dwindling number, as poaching has become...
Frozen In Time: Chalkboard Drawings From 1917 Discovered During School Remodeling
Chalkboards may be meant for temporary messages, but the illustrations adorning the blackboards at this Oklahoma school haven’t been erased in nearly one hundred years.
Construction workers...
Teacher at “Preschool of Rock” Makes Music Videos That Amp Up Learning
This preschool is all about snacks, naps and rock and roll.
The kids are learning everything from geography to shapes through the head-bobbing music videos...
15 Big Companies Launch Plan to Hire 100K Youth from Poor Neighborhoods
Young people in poor neighborhoods are looking at 100,000 new job opportunities and a chance to undergo the right training to help them land...
Anonymous Donor Gives $34 Million to One of California’s Poorest Cities
How does someone give a “transformative” gift to preschoolers and African-American students, low-income renters and ex-prisoners, all at once with the stroke of a...
New U.S. Plan for Solar Power Will Light Up Low-Income Homes
The White House has unveiled a new solar power initiative that promises to expand solar energy to slow-income communities, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and...
Strangers Drive for Hours to Attend Party for Rural Boy Without Friends (WATCH)
Wayne Eubanks was very confused when he opened the front door and found dozens of packages stacked on the porch.
It was the day of...