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Philadelphia High Schoolers Get a Chance to Teach Urban Children.
Adrienne Stewart, 17, of Burlington Township, and JasaRay Gonazalez, 8, of Camden, met for the first time last week. It was on JasaRay's turf: Lanning Square School. The inner-city Camden school was h... --8/6/2010
Miami Students Train in Mock Court to Put Teens Through Real Thing.
The bailiff was fidgety and nervous, pacing up and down the courtroom floor. But when the trial started, he quickly composed himself, stood up in the crowded room at St. Thomas University's Moot Court... --7/31/2010
Students Unite Across Schools, Oceans to Help Uganda.
Five years ago, a handful of Moeller High School students heard accounts of Ugandan children being taken from their families and forced to fight in their country's long civil war. Haunted by the stori... --7/3/2010
Providence Teenagers Expand Cupcake Store for Charity.
The popularity of City Girl Cupcake is both a blessing and a curse to the two busy teens that run the still escalating enterprise: Catherine Corrente and Isabella Veader. With the company already in f... --6/24/2010
High School Students Build, Donate Infant Caskets.
The erratic buzz of saws reverberates through the Bonner Springs High School wood shop weeks after school let out. Teacher Kris Munsch watches his students gently handle the lumber, transforming wood ... --6/20/2010
Students Travel to Honduras to Help Children.
Buena Vista High School were helping to build a classroom and working with orphans in Honduras. Earlier this month, 17 students, two parents and a teacher made the trek to La Cieba, Honduras, as part ... --4/18/2010
Students Bare Their Soles for One Day Without Shoes.
About 266 Burlington High school students kicked off their shoes Thursday to make a bold statement for the millions of children who live without shoes. "We heard about this thing called TOMS shoes," ... --4/11/2010
Minority Youth Nurture Middle-Schoolers in Oregon Mentor Program.
A new mentoring program for students of color in the Tigard-Tualatin School District pairs high school students with at-risk middle schoolers once a week. Intercambio, which means "exchange" in Spanis... --4/3/2010
Students Conduct Business: Class at Santa Barbara High School Serves Community.
Santa Barbara High School students are learning how to run their own business in a Virtual Enterprise class called Dons Net Café. Since September 2000, Dons Net Café has been an entirely student-run ... --3/2/2010
Teen Latinas Mentor Young Students in Indiana.
At Anderson Elementary, about 20 fourth- and fifth-grade students are getting an education in who they are and where they come from. “OK, niños y niñas,” says English as a New Language teacher Shirley... --12/6/2009
Students Fill the Fargodome with Food.
The Fargodome was filled with sandbags in the spring. The other night it was full of food. The student-led Fill the Dome project is almost complete, but did it reach its lofty goals? It's a movement t... --11/24/2009
Long Island Students Form Nonprofit to Honor Family Caregivers.
Six Huntington-area youths were honored by Suffolk County Legis. Lou D’Amaro (D-Huntington Station) at the Oct. 13 Legislative meeting in recognition of their efforts to honor and support family careg... --10/15/2009
High School Students Restore Photographs Damaged in Flood.
The students surveyed the photographs spread out on the table - a mix of black-and-white and color pictures depicting schoolchildren, a wedding and other family moments. The Patapsco High School and C... --10/13/2009
Teens Teach South Carolina Firefighters Spanish.
Typical training for a firefighter means learning to cut open cars or run up flights of stairs with yards of heavy hose line. But for the past four months, all 75 members of the Lady's Island-St. Hele... --7/8/2009
High School Students Make Microfinance Loans to Grow Small Businesses Around the Globe.
Microloans allow entrepreneurs who lack the collateral needed for traditional financing to borrow small amounts to expand their enterprise. American teens are beginning to see microlending as an oppor... --6/2/2009
Students Open Grocery Store as Learning Experience, Community Service.
In a town where the only place to purchase groceries is in the Casey’s convenience store, many Leeton citizens have grown tired of traveling 20 minutes for a simple shopping trip. Beginning today, the... --1/30/2009
Students Bring Wii Gaming to Nursing Home.
Mike Brown, bowling and swinging at a baseball on a Nintendo Wii, is an expert at work, testing the playing directions his class wrote in the hopes of recruiting a new generation of players: residents... --1/28/2009
California Students help Central American Women.
Hillsdale High School students hope to fight poverty in the world by helping rural women in Central America start their own businesses. The students have launched a project to provide small, low-inter... --12/26/2008
Food Drives Run by Student Volunteers Help Nonprofits Fill Empty Bellies.
The bird brigade started in Montville, where volunteers bundled 60 turkeys into baskets to be distributed to local families. Next, they traveled to the Morristown area and unloaded almost 700 birds at... --11/28/2008
Mestizo Project On the Move: Youth Rally Around University Research.
Laura Cobián, a sophomore at West High School, noticed last January that state lawmakers were discussing ways to curb employment and housing opportunities for undocumented workers through Senate Bill ... --11/24/2008
Fourth Grader's Letter Inspires $110,000 Grant, New School Playground.
At The Learning Community, a public charter school in Central Falls, one student's letter inspired a $110,000 grant from Lowe's and a new school playground. "This playground is a perfect example of ou... --9/28/2008
Colorado Students Travel to Zambia and Teach at Village School.
At first, their parents rolled their eyes when a group of middle school students said they wanted to travel to Africa to work at a school for three weeks. But now that the students have finished their... --6/29/2008
Teens Help Out Detroit's Tough Economy: More Volunteer Labor for Summer.
In a down economy, hospitals and other agencies in metro Detroit need teen and young adult volunteers more than ever -- and the tough summer job market is one reason they are increasingly answering th... --6/12/2008
Students Saving the World Through Activism.
In the May 11 New York Times, columnist Nicholas Kristof writes about high school activists and philanthropists: Two high school students in Massachusetts, Ana Slavin and Nick Anderson, started a nati... --5/12/2008
High School Students Volunteer Filing Tax Returns.
It's tax season, and Vicki Reagan is going over tax paperwork with her client, Jason Tomer. What makes this unusual is that Reagan, like the other preparers working with her, is a Middletown High Scho... --2/22/2008
Teens Lead MCAS Reform Charge in Massachusetts.
Somerville teens led an MCAS reform rally last week at the State House urging lawmakers to take a second look at the test, six years after it became a graduation requirement.
Greg Rego, an 18-year ol... --2/19/2008
San Diego Students Organize Week of Consciousness, Raising Aid for Uganda.
A Morse High School senior turned a summer trip to Uganda into a “Week of Consciousness” at his campus to focus on worldwide crises. The schoolwide effort organized by Jon Yturralde, 18, runs through ... --11/15/2007
Teens Take the Wheel in Capitol for National Teen Driver Safety Week.
As part of the first-ever National Teen Driver Safety Week, Oct. 15-19, 100 teens from coast to coast are convening in Washington, D.C. today for a State Farm student-led youth summit to talk about re... --10/17/2007
High School Students Hailed as Heroes in Bus Crash.
The quick thinking of several Osceola County high school students on a busy roadway this morning turned a potentially dangerous school bus accident into a heroic rescue. A handful of brave students st... --10/12/2007
UW Program Exposes Native American High School Students to Legal Profession.
A pilot project headed by the University of Washington is attempting to increase the population of Native American students in higher education by exposing them to a possible career alternative, the l... --10/3/2007
Teenagers' Charity Fights Malaria
In the darkened gym at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy, 200 teenagers gathered in one pulsing cluster, stomping, sliding and twisting to the "Cha Cha Slide." They weren't merely having fun -- they were... --9/2/2007
Operation Smile, Children’s Medical Charity, Helps Young People Learn Service, Leadership and Education.
Operation Smile, launched 25 years ago to help children born with devastating facial deformities, has provided free surgeries that have changed the lives of more than 100,000 children around the globe... --7/24/2007
Detroit Teenagers Look to Make School Menu Healthier
Jennifer Xu, along with some friends she enlisted, is embarking on a project to research school lunches and provide the district's food service director with recommendations for healthier meal options... --5/20/2007
High School Students Raise Awareness, $300K in 'Dollars for Darfur' Challenge.
Students from more than 2,000 U.S. high schools raised their voices and over $300,000 to urge an end to ongoing genocide in Darfur, as part of the national Dollars for Darfur competition sponsored by ... --5/16/2007
Student Activists Raise Awareness for Uganda at Chicago ‘Displace Me’ Event.
About 42 Prior Lake High School students went to Chicago this weekend to join thousands of activists in a national demonstration called “Displace Me,” which simulates the poor living conditions of Uga... --4/27/2007
Connecticut High School Students Study Day Laborers in Effort to Address Their Needs.
Day laborers huddled along the Lowe Street bridge in Norwalk early yesterday, waiting for work, as they do every morning. Then a green car pulled up, and Brien McMahon High School students piled out. ... --4/6/2007
Arizona High School Students Raise Support to Rebuild School in Northern Uganda.
A group of Mesquite High School students wants help to rebuild a high school in Northern Uganda. Members of Mesquite's Up and Coming Voters club have joined with the Schools for Schools program of Inv... --2/19/2007
Houston County High Students Set Up Jobs Board on Internet.
Some Houston County High School students have devised a way to mix a little bit of old-fashioned community service with today's Internet to extend a helping hand to teenage job-seekers. A Web site the... --1/29/2007
Arizona Teens Implement Ideas on Tearing Down Stereotypes in High Schools.
Poor attendance. A lack of communication between staff and students. Stereotypes that stop teenagers from ever getting to know one other. These are some of the problems high school students across Sou... --1/21/2007
Maine High School Students Plan Working Vacation in Guatemala, with Safe Passage.
In Guatemala City, in a massive garbage dump, a community of the poorest lives with nowhere else to go. Families forage daily in an all-consuming search for trash that can be sold. A world where life... --1/6/2007
Friendship Circle Club, Organized by Students, Embraces Special-Needs Kids.
The lunchtime crowd in Manhattan Beach is a friendly group. Disabled teenagers could easily be lost in the crowd at some high schools. But not at Mira Costa: the Friendship Circle Club, organized and ... --12/30/2006
California High School Students to Help Teach Orphans in Tanzania.
A group of local high school seniors and their teacher will go to Africa this summer to teach orphans—many of whom have lost their parents to AIDS. Capuchino English teacher Justine Rutigliano is orga... --12/7/2006
High School Students Nationwide Drive Fundraising Effort for Darfur Crisis.
In spite of efforts to bring an end to the violence in Darfur, Sudan, the humanitarian crisis is at its worst levels ever. Tired of waiting for any positive changes to the worsening situation, high sc... --11/28/2006
Oregon High School Students Pitch in to Save Homes from Rising Floodwaters.
Thirty to forty Knappa High School students braved Tuesday's torrential downpour to help protect local homes from an oncoming flood. As local streams and rivers rose, so did Bear Creek, east of Astori... --11/8/2006
Global Program Fosters Business Skills Recognizes Teens for Success in Entrepreneurial and Community Service Ventures.
At Santa Monica High School's homecoming game Friday night, a team will be awarded championship rings during a halftime ceremony. But tackles and touchdowns aren't behind the honors. The students are ... --10/27/2006
Iowa Students Compete for Community Involvement Scholarships with Innovative Projects.
Fifteen high school students from Iowa are gathering in West Branch and showing how they are helping their communities. They are finalists in the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association's annu... --10/15/2006
Wyoming Girl Scout Troop Helps Refurbish Transformation Center for Women and Children.
For more than a year, Girl Scout Troop 471 has been soliciting donations, mailing fliers, collecting and sorting toys for a new shelter as part of a community-service project. The drab, two-story bric... --10/8/2006
Youths Perform Central Roles in Solemn Toledo 9/11 Memorial.
Toledo marked the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with a low-key ceremony on Civic Center Mall, and youths were given starring roles in the solemn occasion. In the crowd wer... --9/13/2006
Chicago High Schoolers Lend Perspective to Training of School Security Officers.
It's customary for Chicago school security officers to tell students what to do. But they recently switched roles, taking advice from the teenagers they usually boss around. For the first time, five c... --9/4/2006
High School Students Reach Out to Aid Storm-Torn Town in New Mexico.
The city of Hatch was hit especially hard by the recent heavy rains and flooding. The good news is help has also been pouring into that community, but, still, more assistance is desperately needed. In... --8/28/2006
Oregon Students Get High School Credit for Their Interests and Community Activities.
At a community health fair, Yaneira Romero and Jennifer Tovar, Gresham High School students, were making a presentation on the dangers of eating fish from contaminated rivers. Their community service ... --8/26/2006
Maine Students Build World's Largest Canoe as Fundraiser to Help the Handicapped.
The Nokomis students who fashioned the world's largest canoe learned some important lessons, and not just about building canoes. The 149-foot-one-inch-long canoe made both its maiden and final voyages... --7/12/2006
New York Students Take to Streets to Raise Genocide Awareness for Darfur.
Last Saturday, more than 600 local students took to the streets to raise awareness of the ongoing genocide in Sudan. Students from all five Sewanhaka High School District schools marched from Sewanhak... --6/16/2006
Students Pedal To Class In Protest Of Gas Prices, Hope To Inspire Others.
The high gas prices are not only affecting older Americans but the younger population as well. On Tuesday morning, about 30 students from Chartiers Valley High School said enough is enough. To protest... --5/3/2006
Teenagers Organize and Expand Chapters of Help Darfur Now Across New Jersey.
High school students who founded an organization to benefit victims of genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan have presented a prominent disaster relief group with a $15,000 check to help pay for food... --3/24/2006
Students Take An Active Role to Touch Those With Cancer.
Sting Cancer, a student organization at Green Bay Preble High School, fuses support with a coordinated push for awareness that's rarely seen in school hallways. "I saw the effect it had on my dad when... --2/20/2006
Iowa Architects and Students Compete in Sculpture Event for Food Bank of Iowa.
The six Colo-Nesco High School students who built a King Kong-themed skyscraper with cans at Merle Hay Mall were careful. They were in a competition with real architects. After seeing three profession... --2/8/2006
Migrant Education Students Tell Their Stories of Success to Peers.
Rosa Quintana had a lot to think about during her junior year at Kennett High School; which college to go to wasn’t exactly at the top of the list. Neither was becoming a single mother at age 17. Whe... --1/3/2006
Teenagers Go for Groucho Marx-themed Guinness Record.
Three teenagers are striving for inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records. All they have to do to achieve it: get 1,438 people to show up at Saginaw Valley State University wearing plastic Grou... --12/9/2005
Study Shows Teens Volunteering at Twice the Rate of Adults.
First Lady Laura Bush joined a group of local high school students at a service-learning project to announce a new federal study that finds 55 percent of American teenagers volunteered last year--near... --12/1/2005
Pennsylvania Teens Bring Homecoming to Mississippi Coast Schools.
Some Good Samaritan teenagers from Pennsylvania are helping students at two Mississippi Gulf Coast high schools set aside their Katrina troubles to celebrate homecoming together.
Some 40 students fro... --11/1/2005
Massachusetts High School Students Collect Donations to Help Gulf Coast Farmers Recover from Hurricanes.
Farming in the Gulf Coast region has been hit hard after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In rural Louisiana, family farmers are still looking for lost livestock and desperately looking for government ass... --10/29/2005
Kentucky Students Work with State Police in Drive to Stay Alive Program.
Twenty-three students from 18 high schools graduated from the Kentucky State Police "Drive To Stay Alive" program in Frankfort last week. After four days of classroom and hands-on instruction, they ar... --10/24/2005
Missouri Highway Named in Recognition of High School Students' Work for Roadway Safety Improvements.
A seven-mile stretch of U.S. 61 near the Iowa border will honor the high school students who lobbied for improvements to the roadway. A road sign designates the stretch as SMART Memorial Highway, abou... --9/19/2005
New York Times Reports on a New Generation of Social Activists.
The New York Times features an article on a generation whose sense of community involvement was born four years ago on Sept. 11, 2001. The attacks spurred an unprecedented outpouring of donations and ... --9/10/2005
Students in Georgia and Across the Country Sponsor Fundraisers to Help Hurricane Katrina Evacuees.
At high schools all across the country, students are raising thousands of dollars to contribute to relief for the victims of hurricane Katrina. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, in Georgia, reports on th... --9/8/2005
Students Prepare Food For Gulf-Coast-Bound Soldiers.
The Army doesn't travel on an empty stomach, as the old saying goes. On Friday, about 100 high school students made sure the Indiana National Guard won't, either. About 100 high school students helped... --9/2/2005
Student Volunteers Organize Local Relief Effort, Collecting Drinking Water for Hurricane Victims.
The images of desperate people have led many Americans to reach for their checkbooks to help out. Students, in particular, are pitching in to help where they can. Students at Hinsdale Central High Sch... --9/2/2005
Southern California Students Travel to Sri Lanka in Reconstruction Effort.
Local high school students recently had an opportunity to travel to Sri Lanka to participate in a three-week reconstruction effort for tsunami victims. The program lasted the majority of July, with go... --8/21/2005
Corner Stores Get New Look As Students Replace Liquor Ads with Positive Images.
For a group of students from Thurgood Marshall High in the Bayview, redecorating neighborhood corner stores earlier this week was a rewarding, if labor-intensive, summer task. It was hard work peeling... --7/23/2005
Teenage Workcamp Volunteers Spend Summer Repairing Homes on Reservations.
John Shorty, a 77-year-old sheepherder, had waited for months: "As old as we are, we wondered when someone was going to come help us," Shorty says through a Navajo translator. "We wondered, did they m... --7/11/2005
Military-Connected Teens Help Each Other Transition, with Student to Student Program.
They don't have any friends, no peers to talk with and don't know anything about the school they're about to enter, the neighborhood they live in, or the community they just moved into. That's the dil... --7/8/2005
High School Students Work for Fairfax County to Design, Evaluate Gang Prevention Programs for Youth.
Five Fairfax teens who spoke out about the rising gang problem and lack of youth programs in the county at a Board of Supervisors hearing in April are now on the county's payroll. After they "brought ... --7/6/2005
Maryland Teenagers Train FBI Cyber-Agents to Catch Prowling Pedophiles.
The Baltimore Sun reports that for the past several years, the FBI has relied on Karen and Mary (last names not publicized), two Howard County sophomores, to update them on teen culture. But at 16, th... --6/26/2005
Columbus Students Use Annenberg Grants to Tackle Civic Issues in Community Action Projects.
Seniors at Brookhaven High School were concerned when they heard that a nearby bar was selling to minors and that crimes were committed there. So they combed through police reports and scoped out the ... --6/2/2005
Connecticut Students Display Business Savvy, Helping Foundation to Improve Education.
Students at Danbury High School won first place in a statewide contest by helping a foundation that helps teachers improve their education. Members of DECA, a business marketing club, helped create a ... --5/24/2005
San Diego Students Help Families Affected by Domestic Violence.
A group of teens is set on helping mothers who are victims of domestic violence. Each week, students from Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School lend a hand at the Women's Resource Center. Usually, that... --5/14/2005
MA Students Finish 24-Hour Treadmill Run When Teacher's Attempt at World Record Fails.
His quest for another world record ended shortly after 6 o'clock Friday evening, but Martin Tighe can hardly look back at the last two days feeling any sense of failure. Hospitalized after getting jus... --5/2/2005
Teens Make Difference in California Communities with Service Projects for Environment, Prisoners, Preservation.
Three local teenagers were featured on recent Inland Daily Bulletin news pages for their exemplary volunteer efforts. Scott Elder, a freshman at Chino Hills High School, went to the White House Thursd... --4/27/2005
New Jersey Students Help Residents Clean Up, Dig Out Homes After Second Flood in Six Months.
To area residents whose riverside homes were socked by floodwaters for the second time in six months, the Belvidere High School students who helped them clean up this week looked like a busload of ang... --4/10/2005
New York Teenagers Help Carry Out Sting Operations Against Stores Selling Cigarettes to Minors.
One youth lost his grandmother to lung cancer. Another is dismayed at seeing his friends smoke. Still another gets a kick out of busting the bad guys. And of course, there's the $8 an hour. The New Yo... --3/7/2005
Through VITA Program, Texas Students Help Public with Income Tax Forms.
Leadership students at Texas High School may not be ready for careers with the Internal Revenue Service just yet. But the students say a recent volunteer project has helped them learn a lot about inco... --2/24/2005
Students Raise Funds for African AIDS Fight: Benefit Dance Promotes Awareness.
The "Dream to End AIDS Benefit Ball," organized by the Ann Arbor Youth Senate, attracted more than 100 teens from 12 public high schools on Sunday. The Senate is part of the Youth Empowerment Project,... --1/17/2005
New York Teens Brave Blizzards to Pack Raw Chickens for Food Bank.
After traveling though a treacherous Saturday morning snowstorm, seven dedicated local high school students were greeted by more than 20,000 pounds of raw chicken. In light of the global relief effort... --1/9/2005
Students, Charities Team Up: NAACP, American Red Cross, School District Combine Tsunami Efforts.
In Philadelphia, while the NAACP, American Red Cross and the school district are joining together to help the victims of the tsunamis, students at the Masterman Magnet School also made known their pla... --1/6/2005
Utah High School Students Organize Efforts to Aid Victims of Tsunami in Asia.
A group of high school students has formalized its efforts to help collect money and goods for victims of the tsunami and earthquake that killed more than 58,000 people from Asia to Africa. The studen... --12/29/2004
Alaska Students Sleep Out to Raise Money for Homeless.
Members of the Interact Club at Juneau-Douglas High School lived rough Friday night to raise money for the Glory Hole, a downtown homeless shelter and dining hall. By 7 p.m., about 15 students were ta... --11/24/2004
NetAid Launches Global Citizen Corps; NY-area Students Foundation of a Youth Movement to Fight Global Poverty.
The non-profit organization NetAid today announced the launch of the Global Citizen Corps (GCC), a program that recruits and trains high school student leaders to engage their peers in campaigns conce... --11/23/2004
High School Girls Take Leadership Roles, Through Holyoke Mentorship Program.
Joanne Pucci wants to raise awareness at Northampton High School about problems in South Africa related to AIDS and problems some children there have gaining access to education. Mary Bristol is worki... --10/6/2004
Broward Battles Teacher Loss by Recruiting Local High School Students.
For every 100 new teachers who step into Broward County's poor, predominantly minority schools, 35 quit within three years. Hoping to combat a dizzying turnover rate that has sapped underprivileged el... --10/3/2004
High School Students Raise More Than $700 in San Francisco AIDS Walk.
A group of Napa teens joined the estimated 25,000 walkers on Sunday in Golden Gate Park to raise money for AIDS charities throughout the Bay Area. It was the 18th year of the walk, benefiting the San ... --7/20/2004
Hawaii Students Visit Chinese Orphanage after Year of Fundraising.
When 22 high school students from Punahou, Hawaii showed up Thursday at the Children's Village orphanage to bestow a $1,500 check, the benefits of a year's worth of fund raising, the recipients welcom... --7/11/2004
Blind Teen Starts Business Creating Braille Restaurant Menus.
Kayla Legare, a 16-year-old Helena High School student who lost her vision at age 4, is able to broaden her culinary selections these days because a growing number of restaurants in the Helena area no... --6/22/2004
Texas High School Graduations Link to Deployed Parents in Iraq Via Satellite.
Several schools near Fort Hood worked with the Army post to broadcast this week's graduation ceremonies to soldiers in Iraq through the Internet and a live satellite hookup. Deployed parents also spok... --5/30/2004
Students Move Into Tree to Help Others Pay for Camp.
Twelve youths are attempting to raise money for their YWCA camp by spending a weekend more than 20 feet above the ground. The youths, ages 12-17, climbed an old maple in front of the YWCA Northwest Br... --5/8/2004
Students from Santa Barbara High School Help Prepare Tax Returns.
For those who needed help getting their taxes done but can't afford to pay someone, help was available last week from Santa Barbara High School students. Industrious teenagers were on hand in two loca... --4/17/2004
Florida Haitian Students Help Organize Food Drive for Orphanages.
The Haitian students at Lake Worth High School watched as fighting spread across their native country. With roads blocked and phone lines down, many could not get in touch with relatives still in Hai... --3/3/2004
Brunswick High School International Club Plans Spring Trip to Aid Children in Guatemala City.
Six Brunswick High School students will travel to Guatemala City during April vacation, accompanied by four chaperons, to volunteer at Safe Passage, a nonprofit organization that helps hundreds of chi... --2/21/2004
Third Ward Bike Program Makes Bikes Available To All.
In an Earn-A-Bike program sponsored by the Third Ward Community Bike Center, local students--teens and younger--come in on Saturdays to work at the lively new center. Through bikes, the program provid... --2/4/2004
'A Day On' Continues King Legacy, as Students Undertake Service Projects.
Local high school students hoped to recapture Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s spirit of hope and brotherhood by undertaking community service projects today. Part of a national movement coordinated by th... --1/19/2004
VolunTeens Web Site Connects Florida Teenagers to Community.
By the time most Palm Beach County teens graduate, they've logged 40 to 200 hours fulfilling their school community-service requirements. But volunteer opportunities are not easy to find. That frustr... --12/19/2003
Students Help Post Office Answer Children's Letters to Santa Claus.
Dozens of student volunteers from Free State High School are helping write the responses to area children who have sent letters to Santa asking for toys, dolls, gadgets, games--even a motorcycle. The ... --12/15/2003
Students Overhaul Bicycles for a Good Cause.
The components wait in bins outside the Seacoast School of Technology welding classroom: gears, handlebars and a pink "banana seat." Though the hallway looks like a junkyard, SST students, teachers an... --12/7/2003
Students Help Townspeople Leave Messages for Military Personnel in the Middle East.
It's difficult to find anyone in the area who doesn't know a soldier currently serving in the Middle East. And while telephone calls, emails and old fashioned snail mail are all good ways to send mess... --11/24/2003
High School Students Take Early Lessons in Police Work.
Ninth graders are learning how to find evidence at crime scenes as part of their studies in the Pontiac Police Junior Magnet Academy. A crime scene investigator visits the science room at Pontiac Cent... --11/16/2003
Teen's Efforts to Clear Stump Leave "Miracle" Result in New Jersey.
For weeks now, reports the New York Times, thousands have made the pilgrimage to view a tree stump in which they see the image of the Virgin Mary. Among the faithful, it does not seem to matter that t... --11/5/2003
Students Turn for a Change: Plans for Action Reveal Youth Voice.
Over 140,000 high school students around the country who participated in a year-long democratic dialogue process are implementing civic action plans to address concerns in their schools this year. The... --10/30/2003
Bilingual Students Serve As Interpreters For Parents, Schools.
A student volunteer program is trying to relieve the fear that non-English-speaking parents may feel when visiting their children's school. Bilingual students at Springdale High School are giving thei... --10/1/2003
Young Volunteers Fan Out Across Latin America.
Fiona Bracken, a senior at Novato High School, helped Brazil battle soil erosion this summer when she and other student volunteers planted hundreds of trees. Bracken was among 53 student volunteers fr... --9/29/2003
High School Students Dig In to Help Build Houses.
A couple of dozen teens with yellow hardhats got a head start Wednesday on this year's high school houses. There was no groundbreaking ceremony or first turning of shovels; the 12th and 13th houses be... --9/19/2003
Youth Advisory Council Provides Funds for Programs to Benefit Michigan County.
$50,000 would buy more that 3,000 CDs--or it could pave the way to build a shelter for runaway teenagers in Port Huron. Members of the Community Foundation of St. Clair County's Youth Advisory Council... --9/14/2003
Teens Provide Expert Medical Care, Earn International Awards.
Teenagers from the 40-member Spring Lake Park High School OEC (Opportunity in Emergency Health Care) team traveled to Dallas for the annual International Rescue and Emergency Care Association competit... --9/11/2003
Houston Teens Push Peers to Go to College, Joining Statewide Project.
College-bound herself, Allyson Cannon will soon be officially encouraging others on the same path. But first, she'll try to get them through high school. Cannon and 10 of her classmates at Reagan High... --8/30/2003
High School Human Rights Squad Members Work in Homeless Shelter.
Members of the Ayer High School Human Rights Squad went into Boston to work in homeless shelters and soup kitchens as part of a Youth Outreach Weekend (YOW). YOW brings a diverse group of high school ... --1/2/2002
Albany Teens Drive Hope Home with Family Food Project.
This week a group of high school students turned over more than 20 boxes of canned goods and 10 gift cards for turkeys and hams to provide a holiday dinner for Albany area families. The project, calle... --11/29/2002
Pennsylvania Students Learn to Prevent Abuse Through STOP Program.
A county-wide peer education program made its debut last week in the East Stroudsburg school district: STOP Abuse (Students Together for the Outreach and Prevention of Abuse) empowers youth by providi... --11/15/2002
UMass Lowell Project Focuses Teens on Employees' Lives in the Workplace.
As they look at police officers, factory workers, and printing-press operators through the frame of a lens, they ask: How does the light work? Where does the shadow fall? Are they in focus? A group ... --10/17/2002
Students Run Mock Drill At Hurricane Center As Real Storm Threatens.
Computer messages flooded the screen: "200 stranded at Lake Worth Tri-Rail." "Officers needed for evacuation in West Palm Beach." "Hospital has 100 patients need transport." "It makes you realize how... --9/26/2002
Florida Students Divvy Up Teacher Grants for Service Learning Projects.
At Lakeland High School, students will call the shots in deciding how to divvy up $10,000 to Polk teachers for service projects. In distributing grants of up to $800 per teacher, the Service Learning ... --9/22/2002
Mingo Job Corps Students Join Oregon Fire Fight.
After spending 12- to 16-hour nights fighting a wildfire in Oregon this summer, Mingo student Dewayne Sanner, 18, said, "Everybody said it was going to be really tough physically, but it was more toug... --8/27/2002
With Fresh Produce, Youth Program Cultivates Productive Lives
In spite of heat and slow business, some New Jersey
teenagers are patiently tending the fruit and vegetable stand they have
set up in a dusty church parking lot in this Atlantic City town for the
p... --8/19/2002
Home-School Students Join Forces in Philanthropic Efforts.
A dozen home-school students worked together to contribute $5,000 to the Snohomish County Center for Battered Women and another $5,000 to Project Safe, a prevention program for homeless teens. The stu... --6/19/2002
Detroit Students Study Neighborhood Blight, Report to City Council.
A group of Foch Middle School students last week asked the Detroit City Council to help clean up their neighborhood after having spent several weeks surveying the abandoned cars, vacant buildings, and... --5/29/2002
Texas Teen Volunteers Teach Disability Awareness Through Interactive Program.
Friday morning, about 100 fifth-graders at Club Estates Elementary got a taste of what it's like to have a disability. Disabilities Awareness Mission is a traveling program designed and conducted by ... --5/6/2002
Illinois High School Will Have Credit Union Branch Run by Students.
Schlarman High School students who forget their lunch money next week need only stop by their in-school credit union to withdraw the necessary funds. Through a partnership with the Teepak Credit Union... --4/18/2002
Tennessee Teens Self-Publish Book on Mental Health Issues for Victims of Trauma
70 students from East Literature Magnet school in Nashville will share their words and experiences with peers who struggled with depression or grief after the September 11 attacks. They are self-publi... --4/3/2002
Wisconsin High School Students Pioneer Elementary School Mentoring Program
60 South High School students are mentoring younger children at Saratoga Elementary School this year, as they pioneer the "Bigs in School" program. It's a switch from the time-tested Big Brothers-Big... --2/6/2002
El Paso Holds Police-Student Summit on Crime.
130 high school students from across El Paso County talked with police about policing programs and youth crime issues at Tuesday's third annual Police-Student Summit on Crime. Teens' concerns included... --1/31/2002
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