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Taking on the Giant promotes the ideas, work and accomplishments of young people who change the world. An increasing number of young people below the age of 25 are transforming their passions into successful charities, foundations, businesses and movements from a young age. These are stories that deserve to be told. We believe that they will inspire other young people to pursue their dreams and passions and turn them into reality and eventually lead to a reinvention of the understanding of employment, from the one currently geared toward simply finding a job and being employed to one in which individuals create their own workplace. takingonthegiant.com facebook.com/takingonthegiant twitter.com/takingongiant

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Teenage Millionaire Changes How We Read the News - Taking on the Giant

Nick D’Aloisio, a British-Australian teenager, has been making Apps for the iPhone since he was twelve. When he was just fifteen years old he had massive success with his app called Summly.The app sums up various articles and topics in just a few sentences. Summly has received a 4.5/5 rating on the App Store, and …

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Aelita Andre is the youngest professional painter in the world. Is she truly the prodigal art genius? Or just another child with an enormous amount of creativity?

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17 yr-old invents life-saving miracle gel

17 yr-old Joe Landolina invents life-saving miracle gel that stops life threatening blood loss almost instantly. His invention is called Veti-gel.

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Cecilia Cassini: the youngest fashion designer in the U.S. - Taking on the Giant

For 8th Grade version click here Thirteen-year-old Cecilia Cassini from Encino, California was the youngest designer in the U.S. and one of the youngest in the world, when she launched her own label in 2009, at the age of 9. By 2011, she had already created over 500 original pieces and dressed many celebrities, including Heidi Klum …

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'Nirbhaya,' the young Delhi gang rape victim, posthumously receives International "Women of Courage" Award - Taking on the Giant

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The young Congolese refugee empowering refugees at the Kyangwali camp - Taking on the Giant

COBURWAS International Youth Organization to Transform Africa (CIYOTA) is a Ugandan-based non-profit started by three refugee youth in secondary school to address the educational problems and other challenges faced by Congolese refugees living in the Kyangwali refugee camp. The nonprofit, launched in 2005, now has over 10,000 members and volunteers from over 40 African countries …

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Looking for student leader to interview about protest for our blog TakingOnTheGiant.com which is about young people changing the world. Can you help?

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A 12-year-old schoolgirl has been accepted into Mensa after discovering she is brainier than both Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

Olivia Manning, from Liverpool, managed to get a whopping score in an IQ test of 162 - well above the 100 average.

Her score is not only two points better than genius German physicist Einstein and Professor Stephen Hawking, but puts her in the top one per cent of intelligent people in the world.

(Other sources: Liverpool Daily Post)

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Screw The Hollywood Definition Of Beauty — We’re Changing That One Selfie At A Time

#nofilter #AdsWeLike

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Julie Zeilinger, 19, Authors Book Claiming ‘Feminism’ is not a Dirty Word

“So. I’m a teenager and I wrote a book. And not just any book. A book about feminism. What kind of obviously pretentious and generally ridiculous teen does that?”

This excerpt comes directly from the first page of Julie Zeilinger’s book, A Little F’d Up: Why Feminism is Not a Dirty Word.  From girls’ anxiety over body image to sex trafficking and female genital mutilation, the book details issue after issue that women face in the world today.  With women constantly up against double standards, rampant sexism, and outright abuse, Zeilinger argues that feminism is the solution.

Read more and listen to an interview with Julie on our website!

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[DISPATCHES] This Month, Students Massed Against Stop-and-Frisk, Won on Title IX and Scared Off Tom Corbett

by StudentNation | The Nation

Philadelphia students greet Governor Corbett. — Photo via PCAPS

[This post, edited by Youngist's James Cersonsky (@cersonsky), first appeared on The Nation, and has been republished here with permission. ]

Last spring, The Nation launched its biweekly student movement dispatch. As part of the StudentNation blog, each dispatch hosts ten first-person updates on student and youth organizing in the United States—from established student unions to emerging national networks, to ad hoc campaigns that don’t yet have a name. For an archive of earlier editions, check out the New Year’s dispatch.

1. As Strike Waters Heat Up, Portland Students Walk Out

In early January, the Portland Student Union held three days of action in support of the Portland Association of Teachers in its current contract negotiations. Jefferson and Wilson High School students walked out, while Cleveland High School student union members held three days of speakouts. Overall, more than 300 students participated in the days of action. On January 13, the demonstrations culminated in a school board rallywith 500 students, parents and workers. At the board meeting, the PDXSU presented “The Schools Portland Students Demand,” a set of priorities that students see as vital to their education.

—Portland Student Union

2. After Months of Student Pressure, Obama Acts on Title IX

Ed Act Now, the movement for better federal enforcement of Title IX, was thrilled by President Obama’s January 22 announcement of a new task force to combat campus sexual violence. After garnering public support through a protest and online petition, student organizers met with White House officials in July to discuss their ideas. Ed Act Now is encouraged to see many of its proposals—including stricter enforcement of existing laws and greater federal transparency—included in a public memo outlining the task force’s plans. Activists are now working to ensure that the task force calls on a diversity of survivor voices—crossing lines of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, type of educational institution and form of violence suffered—to inform the White House’s investigations.

—Ed Act Now

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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

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What have you done to replenish your creativity this year? 

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As a black person this makes me really proud but at the same time it really frustrates me because the news never focus on the positive qualities of blacks which in reality actually out weighs the negatives but the media only focus on the negatives.. why does a 4 year old black boy cussing makes huge media headlines but a 4 year black girl genius does not……that’s what really frustrates me. 

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signal boosting because no matter what that stuff is really impressive and deserves to be recognized! like dang, you go!!

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And yet the youngest lady to pass the bar was covered…at least on british news outlets…not sure why other countries would cover it though.

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taking chances that’s what being entrepreneur is all about!

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It is an unusual school in an unusual location and is run by an unusual teacher.

Rajesh Kumar is a shopkeeper by profession but spends hours every morning teaching around 80 children from the poorest of the poor in India’s capital.

The 43-year-old visited the construction of the Delhi transit station a few years ago and was disturbed by the sight of  many children playing at the site instead of attending school.

When he questioned the parents working at the sites they all said there were no schools in the vicinity and no one cared.

Consequently, his open-air class room was born - between pillars and beneath the tracks of the Delhi transit system, known as the Metro.

Every few minutes a train passes above, the children unperturbed by its sounds.

There are no chairs or tables and the children sit on rolls of polystyrene foam placed on the rubble.

Three rectangular patches of wall are painted black and used as a blackboard.

Anonymous donors have contributed cardigans, books, shoes and stationery for the children, as their parents cannot afford them.

One unnamed individual sends a bag full of biscuits and fruit juice for the pupils every day - another incentive for the children to turn up for their studies.

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Reading a book for a class that all first year teachers in my corporation are required to take. The author just called technology “faddish and time-gobbling.”

I work in a 1:1 corporation. All I could think of is this chart, so naturally I uploaded this picture to our required discussion board.

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Emmanuel Bishop: the teenager violonist with Down syndrome

Emmanuel Bishop is a 16-year-old boy with Down syndrome, who plays the violin and speaks English, Spanish, French and Latin. He is an ambitious young man, who lets nothing stand in the way of his dreams. Down syndrome occurs when an individuals has ‘a full or partial extra copy of chromosome 21.

Read more about Emmanuel on our website.