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When Khloe Thompson, now sixteen, was eight years old, she started sewing care bags by hand and filling them with items for women experiencing homelessness. Since then, she has started [...]

DEPARTMENTS Science@Work Genevieve Leroux, a 15-year-old high school student, has been working to protect the monarch butterfly since she first learned of its endangered status when she was 9. Genevieve convinced her home city's mayor to take the National Wildlife Federation's Mayors' Monarch Pledge. With her parents' permission, she also started a pollinator garden, which eventually attracted enough monarchs that a professor at California Polytechnic Institute visited to teach her how to tag, observe, and record data on individual butterflies. [Extracted from the article]

Will Gladstone, an amateur birder, was in his 5th-grade science class in Newton, Massachusetts, when he first heard of an eye-catching bird. Matty (left) and Will raise money to study and protect blue-footed boobies. Favorite birds: In addition to the blue-footed booby (obviously), Will is especially fond of the rose-breasted grosbeak with its bold black-and-red coloring. Booby birding: Say you're in the tropics and spy a bird that looks like a booby but doesn't have blue feet. [Extracted from the article]

Every day after school,Khloe Thompson of OrangeCounty, California, noticed thesame woman standing outsideher school. Shewent to a fabric store to buycloth for Khloe. Onetime when a woman she gavea bag to asked for a hug,Khloe gave her a one, andthe woman started to cry. [Extracted from the article]

Twelve-year-old JorisHutchison is a self-proclaimed"cat person", buthe doesn't limit himself tohis domestic cats Pepper andPippin, or to the adorablekittens he and his mom fosteruntil they find loving homes. The countrywas Namibia, and the wildlifesanctuary was N/a'an ku sê.His mom suggested they govisit so Joris could hand themoney he raised directly to thepeople involved with savingcheetahs there. Joris loved the animals andthe people there so much thathe persuaded his mom to lethim stay for the entire day.". [Extracted from the article]

Usually she uses acrylic or watercolor paint on a 16 x 20-inch canvas. Was she surprised by how much money her painting of a little gray wolf pup gazing at a purple butterfly sold for?. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on founders of lip balm product maker "Bennett Brothers Balm”; topics include their fundraising initiative for cancer research donation; and awards received including Boston Celtics’ “Heroes Among Us” award, the “Young Entrepreneurs Award” from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

The article discusses how five years old Jahkil Naeem Jackson started helping homeless people (HP) after seeing many HP in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois and discusses how he collected sample-sized toiletry items to donate HP and how he received invitations from schools to share his story.

The article highlights the initiative and efforts of a 12-year-old seventh grader from Washington State, Joris Hutchison who has been working on behalf of cheetahs for half his young life, ever since he learned his favorite animal was at risk of extinction.

The article focuses on Bennett brothers from Massachusetts, who make lip balm to soothe their friend’s discomfort, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma; and mentions rise in sales of Bennett Brothers Balm; and also mentions importance for a friends to help others friends.