Elegance Magazine Volume 3

To me, education is more then attending a school – it is all about educating the student to the best of their ability. It is all about finding their passions, fueling their dreams, making them excited to want to learn and grow!

There is no distinction between what a male or female can do – look below at what I have found – it will blow your mind – but it will also show you what our youth is absolutely capable of – this is the reason we need to revamp our learning centers and grab those 1.2 million high school dropouts each year and keep them in school!

Education comes in all forms, public, private, home schooled, technical, internships, self taught, online, the list goes on. Find the right modality that will capture your child’s curiosity and help them move forward to a future of compassion, caring and development!

•Malala Yusafzai age 17 -Nobel Peac Prize Winner – advocate for education for girls – Pakistan.

Nobel Peace Prize

•Jack Adraka age 16 – Medical entrepreneur winner of $75,000 - 2012 Gordon E. Moore Award, in winner the category of Medicine and Health Sciences – Pancreatic Cancer Diagnostic Test •Peyton Robertson age 11 – Invention Sandless Sandbags – Peyton’s sandbags are lighter, making them easier to carry. That’s because they are filled with chemicals and salt and only expand when doused with water.

•Cassandra Lin – age 15 – from Westerly, Rhode Island and co-founder of Project TGIF – Turn Grease Into Fuel – Project TGIF is a sustainable system that collects used cooking oil from restaurants and residents, has it converted into environmentally friendly biofuel to heat the homes of financially stressed families.

•Kiran Sridhar age 16 – first visited a soup kitchen when he was 11, and he never quite got over the sight of that long line of people waiting for a hot meal. Founder of the nonprofit ‘Waste No Food’ created a mobile app – any time a food donor has excess food, they can post a donation in under a minute. Tarries within a 20-mile radius get an email and text message alerts and can claim the food – goal – 1,000,000 meals within a year through mobile app.

•Meet Ben Simon, a senior at the University of Maryland College Park and Founder and Executive Director of Food Recovery Network. I was with some friends in the dining hall. It was near closing time. We talked to the dining hall manager. We were like, “Whoa, is that food that looks like it’s going to waste?” And they’re like, “Yeah, it is.” And we were like, “Can we donate that instead of throwing it away?” And they were like, “Yeah, you can.” Ever since then, it was like “Dude, what if this was at every college?”

•Snap Caps invented by 5th grade student! Maddie Bradshaw – now she is going to college – a millionaire – Snap Caps® - the original interchangeable magnetic bottle cap necklace – Snap Caps can be worn as necklaces, bracelets, in hairpins, on ribbons and picture frames.

•What if you needed an important medical check-up, but you couldn’t get to a doctor? Well, American student Catherine Wong has invented a heart test device — and the only thing you need to take it is an ordinary cell phone. 17 years old – loves science – Invents Cell Phone Heart Test!

Our children are our future – it is up to us adults to provide the learning that they need and deserve– old ways need to be tossed right out the window. Setting up structure, equal education and opportunity regardless of where you live, investing in our children’s future – that is what we need to be doing.

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