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The Power of Young People to Change the World
Thursday at 3 PM Pacific
December 2nd 2021: 1202: Celebrating Young Heroes Episode 2
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Each year the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes honors 25 outstanding young leaders who have made a significant positive impact on people, their communities, and the environment. Join us in this two-part series were we celebrate and learn from these amazing youth leaders who are truly changing the world. Visit https://barronprize.org/ to meet all the young heroes.
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GGitanjali Rao
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Gitanjali is an inventor, young scientist, and advocate for STEM who conducts workshops for students around the world to support them in creating solutions to pressing problems. In the past three years, she has conducted 335 workshops for nearly 50,000 students in places such as Afghanistan, India, Kenya refugee camps, and rural schools in the U.S. Her workshops guide young innovators through a prescriptive five-step process that she has developed and used for her own innovations. Named America’s Top Young Scientist in 2017, she has invented numerous devices to help humanity. She developed Tethys, a faster and cheaper way to detect lead in water. Her Epione device uses genetic engineering to
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Rachel Park
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Rachel founded Curieus, a nonprofit that brings hands-on science to underserved kids to spark curiosity and increase diversity in STEM. Her team of 150 high school volunteers has provided free weekly after-school science programs to more than 3,000 at-risk youth. From a small start at her local Boys & Girls Club, she has grown Curieus to 21 chapters across Silicon Valley, New York, and London, among other locations. She has garnered $18,000 for her program from groups such as Google and GoFundMe Gives Back. When the pandemic shut down her program sites, she and her team developed and distributed educational videos, free science experiment kits, and live online workshops, reaching families ac
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Adarsh Ambati
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Adarsh founded the Green Environment Initiatives to design solutions for environmental crises and to provide STEM education for underserved students. He has invented a smart sprinkler system that conserves water and has developed a low-cost method for testing amphibians’ health. His Gro-STEMs team of high school volunteers has taught more than 150 STEM classes to youth at homeless shelters, libraries, and youth organizations. His volunteers have also distributed over 550 compostable Care Cards listing ways to live more sustainably. Adarsh has raised more than $6,250 to fund his work by growing and selling succulents.
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