“America’s Top Young Scientist” goes to an eighth grader from California this year. Kevin Tang, age thirteen, won the $25,000 prize for inventing a new kind of device that detects when a person takes a fall. The invention was inspired […]
It’s amazing to hear about the creative ways that people use horses to help hurting people. Horses have a way of bringing some people a lot of comfort and peace. Several months ago, a young lady in Pennsylvania named Grace […]
Financier Bill Conway announced in 2011 that he would give away $1 billion to a cause that he and his wife believed in and could create jobs for the poor. He asked the public to share ideas with him and […]
Doug Ruch, a 55 year old man from San Antonio, Texas, is on a mission that he calls the “Dying to Serve Tour.” It’s definitely a bitter/sweet story because it all started when Ruch was told by his doctors that […]
It has been almost three months now that Hurricane Helene’s damaging wind and flood waters swept through Western North Carolina. Currently, there are hundreds of people living in tents and temporary housing while they wait for repairs and new construction […]
For the first time since 2017, the National Park Service will be administering the test for becoming a guide at the Gettysburg National Military Park. Since the 1930 the Park Service has maintained around 150 guides, but currently, that number […]
Here’s a really unusual world record that you probably haven’t heard of–a quick-fingered concert pianist from Romania unofficially broke a Guinness World Record by hitting a piano key 500 times in 30 seconds. Thurzó Zoltán, a renowned concert pianist, videoed […]
Becoming a Man (BAM) is a program under the auspices of Youth Guidance (https://www.youth-guidance.org/youth-guidance-los-angeles), based out of Chicago. I was given the honor of visiting their summer session 2024 and I’d like to describe my experiences briefly. The Location Los […]
Nigel Richards has won 11 North American and world championships in Scrabble, which is eight more than anyone else. The 57 year old man from New Zealand has earned the title of the best Scrabble player of all times. David […]
In the 1930s, there were some racists laws that excluded certain people from renting places to live. At that time in Coronado, California, a man who was born into slavery in Kentucky named Gus Thompson, rented a house to the […]