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Meet Netra: The Founder of SpunkGo and Recipient of the Diana Award for Social Impact

Meet Netra: The Founder of SpunkGo and Recipient of the Diana Award for Social Impact

Netra Venkatesh is currently a Sophomore at Rice University. While in high school in Dubai, she founded SpunkGo: a teen-led mental health platform that created open spaces for girls to speak honestly about stress, identity, and emotional well-being, and was later recognized with the Diana Award for social impact.

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How This Dubai Student Made An App to Increase Access to Welfare Programs in India

How This Dubai Student Made An App to Increase Access to Welfare Programs in India

Neeraj Shah is an Economics and Mathematics student at Duke University who grew up in Dubai. During high school, he founded Scheme Bharat — a digital platform that simplifies India’s government welfare programs for communities who need them most.

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How This Stanford Student Launched ‘Start With SPAR’ to Make Debate Accessible

How This Stanford Student Launched ‘Start With SPAR’ to Make Debate Accessible

Meet Bruno - a Stanford freshman who launched a new debate program & curriculum with Start With Spar.

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Meet the Student Helping Lead 40,000+ Volunteers Help Kids With Cancer

Meet the Student Helping Lead 40,000+ Volunteers Help Kids With Cancer

Lexie is the Chapter Director of "Cancer Kids First," the largest youth-led initiative fighting pediatric cancer (founded by Olivia Zhang). She is also a student at Villanova University.

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The Stanford Freshman Fighting Illiteracy for 24,000+ Youth Worldwide

The Stanford Freshman Fighting Illiteracy for 24,000+ Youth Worldwide

Malaika founded "Empower With Literacy," a global youth-led nonprofit that has already reached more than 24,000 youth across 13+ countries.

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How This UPenn Student Built the Largest Youth HPV Initiative in the Pacific Northwest.

How This UPenn Student Built the Largest Youth HPV Initiative in the Pacific Northwest.

Sophie is an incoming student at the University of Pennsylvania. After her close mentor was diagnosed with cervical cancer due to an HPV infection - Sophie knew she had to act.

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This Stanford Student Helped 90+ Schools Save 21 Million Sheets of Paper.

This Stanford Student Helped 90+ Schools Save 21 Million Sheets of Paper.

Carolyn is an incoming freshman who founded "A Sustainable Future (ASF)" which helps schools across the U.S cut down on paper waste.

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This Teen Activist From Texas is Fighting to Make Period Products Free

This Teen Activist From Texas is Fighting to Make Period Products Free

Dhiya is a rising junior from San Antonio, Texas, and is the co-founder of "Cycles For Change" - a non-profit focused on eradicating period poverty.

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This Teen Had No STEM Experience - Now She's Researching Astrobiology & Cancer.

This Teen Had No STEM Experience - Now She's Researching Astrobiology & Cancer.

Meet Siyeon - an incoming student at Johns Hopkins University. She created a personal research project on astrobiology and now works on anti-cancer research at UChicago.

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This Yale Student Donated 13,000+ Books to Students in Need—In Atlanta and Around the World.

This Yale Student Donated 13,000+ Books to Students in Need—In Atlanta and Around the World.

Meet Grant - an incoming freshman at Yale and founder of "Pages of Hope."

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How Two High School Friends Turned a Summer Project Into A Global Design Agency

How Two High School Friends Turned a Summer Project Into A Global Design Agency

Amber (MIT) and Tian (BU) co-founded PRISIT—a global, youth-led design agency with 2,000+ creations for student entrepreneurs and nonprofits.

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How This Stanford Student Built a 300K+ TikTok Following Teaching Financial Literacy

How This Stanford Student Built a 300K+ TikTok Following Teaching Financial Literacy

Adam is an incoming freshman at Stanford University. When he was in middle school, he launched "Teen Executive" - a viral TikTok page where he taught finance topics to a 300K+ following.

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